: Sun May 17, 2009 11:07 pm  

Fortunately i had to miss this game.

Arent i the Lucky one

had the pleasure ( sic) of listening it to Radio Manchester which suggested that

1 Salford played the game simply and made very few errors

2 Although we had very good field position we could not score and bombed several chances

3 Our attacking kicks were very poor apart from the one where Aspy set up Robbo

4 Salford showed more commitment particualrly with their scrambling defence

5 We made a lot of errors ( although many of them were due to good Salford defence)

6 We seemed unlucky with a couple of things

7 When things started going badly our heads dropped.


8 we missed Hodgson

Durham out of all the pish posted on here you always talk the most sense.

All of the above is true, don't lose the faith I think the coach knows what needs to be done, but yer the above just about summed it up and a big pat on the back for Salford, take nothing away from them, error free game for them and more passion.

: Sun May 17, 2009 11:54 pm  

wardleyred wrote:

Very suprised how poor you were.We defending really well and like said made very few errors,what did you lot think of the best number 7 in super league today??
Keep your chins up and thanks for any credit given on our performance!

Dunno i went to the Giants v Salford game so I wouldn't know.

: Mon May 18, 2009 8:35 am  

We not only missed Hodgson, We missed Raleigh, Griffin, Lawrence & Fulton.

At least a couple of the lads (Lunt & Hodgson) had the bottle to come over and shake some hands apologise for the performance - The rest just looked over sheepishly.

: Mon May 18, 2009 9:57 am  

Eorl Crabtree and Danny Kirmond ( in his 1st spell) you two can leave with dignity as you were the only ones (in my opinion) who actually looked slightly interested yesterday !!

Absolutely awful performance by our guys it looked like they were on strike today - not taking anything away from Salford who battered us on the day - they didnt need to be good today but they did the basics and our guys werent interested in giving them a game, we didnt even deserve to get 4 points today.
Salford had 17 men (&boys) out there who put in 79 minutes of top quality professional rugby league and our guys didnt know or couldnt be bothered to respond to them

We didnt make Salford drop the ball or make any mistakes because we couldnt be bothered putting the effort in.

few points:
1) how come when were attacking we never change the direction of play, we throw the ball either left or right for the whole set?

2) Although a decent Centre Kev Brown will never ever be a creative half back in Super League.

3)why is Cudjoe playing like Thorman at full back ie doing a little shimmy and skip when he gets to the defensive line instead of just running?

4) do our coaches teach our half backs how to create things because i cant remember the last time i watched a game on commented on some great half back play?

5) most importantly, why is a team that were wiping the floor with teams a couple of months ago playing so badly - is it laziness thats crept in to the players thinking they did enough in the 1st half of the season ?.

: Mon May 18, 2009 10:31 am  

GIANT DAZ wrote:

Eorl Crabtree and Danny Kirmond ( in his 1st spell) you two can leave with dignity as you were the only ones (in my opinion) who actually looked slightly interested yesterday !!

Absolutely awful performance by our guys it looked like they were on strike today - not taking anything away from Salford who battered us on the day - they didnt need to be good today but they did the basics and our guys werent interested in giving them a game, we didnt even deserve to get 4 points today.
Salford had 17 men (&boys) out there who put in 79 minutes of top quality professional rugby league and our guys didnt know or couldnt be bothered to respond to them

We didnt make Salford drop the ball or make any mistakes because we couldnt be bothered putting the effort in.

few points:
1) how come when were attacking we never change the direction of play, we throw the ball either left or right for the whole set?

2) Although a decent Centre Kev Brown will never ever be a creative half back in Super League.

3)why is Cudjoe playing like Thorman at full back ie doing a little shimmy and skip when he gets to the defensive line instead of just running?

4) do our coaches teach our half backs how to create things because i cant remember the last time i watched a game on commented on some great half back play?

5) most importantly, why is a team that were wiping the floor with teams a couple of months ago playing so badly - is it laziness thats crept in to the players thinking they did enough in the 1st half of the season ?.

injurys and loss of form

: Mon May 18, 2009 12:07 pm  

Observations from myself here.

I was going ballistic as they would kick upfield and Leroy would take the ball and the first drive, then the second one was Aspinwall amd the 3rd drive was David Hodgson.Where were our second rowers (or second hookers as I called them).

I have a theory about what has happened and this is it.

Away Games this Year:
Castleford Friendly
Catalans
Bulls
Castleford (League)
Wigan
Harlequins (C Cup)
Hull KR
Warrington

8 games - won 7 lost 1

Home Games this year:
Wigan (Friendly)
St Helens
Hull
Harlequins
Celtic
Leeds
Rochdale (C Cup)
Salford

8 games - won 1 easily, won 2 not convincingly, lost 5

Magic Weekend:
Celtic

Won not convincingly

I would rather watch them away than at home. Its a sad fact but we have been dreadful at home and we must sort it out for the next 2 home games (Cas in Cup and Hull KR) or we are in bother.

: Mon May 18, 2009 12:17 pm  

Big Stuart wrote:

Observations from myself here.

I was going ballistic as they would kick upfield and Leroy would take the ball and the first drive, then the second one was Aspinwall amd the 3rd drive was David Hodgson.Where were our second rowers (or second hookers as I called them).

you wasn't the only one spotting this yesterday.

On one return hodgy picked the ball up and took the 1st tackle, Aspi the 2nd and hodgy the third.

What happened to Korki? played 10 mins and rested for another 65 only to come on once we'd lost?

: Mon May 18, 2009 12:31 pm  

Wadski wrote:

you wasn't the only one spotting this yesterday.

On one return hodgy picked the ball up and took the 1st tackle, Aspi the 2nd and hodgy the third.

What happened to Korki? played 10 mins and rested for another 65 only to come on once we'd lost?

This has been the case all season - Hodgson and Aspy get nowhere and it's clear when they go into d/h that they are going to scoot. It's easy for the defence to deal with as they know what's happening. I can understand it for the second tackle after a kick return because the hooker and big guys are not back, but to do it repeatedly on tackle three is rubbish. I remember watching at Warrington, for example, and time after time it took until tackle four for a big guy to have a hit up.

: Mon May 18, 2009 5:52 pm  

TBF its a tactic for your wingers to take a run or a scoot from dummy half after a kick return, saving the workload of your forwards. reckoning being your wingers should be near the ball (or near abouts), giving your forwards time to get back/ breather after the kick from defending up field making your attacking set start quicker and hopefully catch the defense not set with quick PTB's. Imo it was the slow and unsure ball return from Leroy that gave salford plenty time so set their defensive line for the next set of six giving us no chance of creating any attacking options.

[Durham Giant]

: Mon May 18, 2009 6:54 pm  

GIANT DAZ wrote:

3)why is Cudjoe playing like Thorman at full back ie doing a little shimmy and skip when he gets to the defensive line instead of just running?

?.

the reason is simple to give him the opportunity to step off either the left or right foot and so change direction to make a break.

The shimmy and the skip is not a problem it is the execution.

Most Full backs do either
a a shimmy and make a break

b run it straight and hard.

If Leroy cannot make a break i suggest he goes for option b