Squads v Fax : Sat Jun 04, 2022 11:07 am  

Still no Mellor.

Re: Squads v Fax : Sat Jun 04, 2022 6:08 pm  

That is because we are selling him to Saints, obviously.

Re: Squads v Fax : Sat Jun 04, 2022 6:23 pm  

Septimius Severus wrote:

That is because we are selling him to Saints, obviously.

So what is our plan when we have 2 big games coming up?

Re: Squads v Fax : Sat Jun 04, 2022 6:29 pm  

Cokey wrote:

So what is our plan when we have 2 big games coming up?

He’s injured, Higuano steps in - not ideal but not the end of the world, if the rested players come back all guns blazing we should have enough - forwards over ran them at their gaff, expect we should do the same again

Re: Squads v Fax : Sat Jun 04, 2022 6:43 pm  

I am more than a little concerned about the Fax game, being that Fax have won their last 8 on the bounce with a fantastic 66 - 0 win over Dewsbury & the fact that we have player's out with knocks Mellor & Wardle from the 1895 game & some rested. It will also be our 3rd game in 8 days so bodies could be tired & bruised

I'm not convinced by Ata Hingano either but hope he makes me eat humble pie.

Re: Squads v Fax : Sat Jun 04, 2022 10:17 pm  

Ste100Centurions wrote:

I am more than a little concerned about the Fax game, being that Fax have won their last 8 on the bounce with a fantastic 66 - 0 win over Dewsbury & the fact that we have player's out with knocks Mellor & Wardle from the 1895 game & some rested. It will also be our 3rd game in 8 days so bodies could be tired & bruised

I'm not convinced by Ata Hingano either but hope he makes me eat humble pie.

There are 5 Props in the match day squad. I am not worried we have cover in every position

Re: Squads v Fax : Sat Jun 04, 2022 11:31 pm  

'There are 5 Props in the match day squad. I am not worried we have cover in every position'

Five props? I count four

Re: Squads v Fax : Sun Jun 05, 2022 6:19 am  

If Mellor is injured I would go with this 17, and Ipape to play the full 80 minutes. Asiata to half when Smith has a spell and Ipape going to nine with one of the bench going to 13.
1 Aekins
2 Ferguson
3 Chamberlain
4 McDonald
5 Inu
6 Reynolds
7 Ipape
8 Sidlow
9 Smith
10 Amone
11 Wardle
12 Stone
13 Asiata
14 Ioane
15 Nakubuwai
16 McDonnell
17 O’Donnell

Re: Squads v Fax : Sun Jun 05, 2022 1:38 pm  

Re: Squads v Fax : Sun Jun 05, 2022 4:38 pm  

That was a score line I didn't expect.

Sidlow looked like he got a tweak at the end of the match. Asiata rested for most of it.

Thought Inu was unfortunate with his binning, looked like a good solid hit, which he'd been doing most of the game and was one of the stand outs of me today.

Wardle did sneak MoM for me too but I think McDonnell was very strong and Smith was solid (it must be hard putting in such solid performances and then knowing your interchange is with the current "man" and you'll not get that much recognition as you go off) and Nakubuwai seemed to get stronger with the more minutes he did, but the the whole performance across the whole team was, I think, the most complete so far this season.

Taking the 2 at the very start got a few heads scratching around me but it was just to keep the proverbial score ticking over.

Halifax were a well drilled unit with some brief flare in attack but you could see, as it now the case, we'd done them over in the first half and they were spent but full credit to them for going till the end, including losing Gee.

Today was about the win, squad management and also making up for the near catastrophe at Barrow and all 3 of those were jobs well done.