Barrow game positives negatives : Sun Feb 04, 2018 6:33 pm  

Not a lot of negatives to be honest.
But on the positives, the squad look lean and fit,dragon notably looks to have lost a few pounds. Api was not meant missed, meadows played very well in his place, Sid made an impact when he was on the park and his defence was solid, Lovell looks pretty good as well. fitness has obviously been a focus in pre season and Tackle technique has improved massively.

Negatives! Barrow really did try to slow the PTB down, but rather than just trying to place the foot and stand up we allowed em to succeed, plant a foot make the effort and then the ref has no choice but too blow. Dixon could easily have been sent off for retaliation. So really just a little bit of temperament.

Shame we let em in for a second try, but overall a good performance, hope we can back up away next week and then against Fev. It’s nice to be back watching the best game on earth

Re: Barrow game positives negatives : Sun Feb 04, 2018 7:28 pm  

Meadows played well, as did the young hooker when he came on. Batty did some good stuff in a long stint.

Barrow were poor to be fair. Slowed the second half down.

Be interesting to see how we go in a struggle game. We threw it left to right right to left today in the dry fast conditions. Lets se how we fair when playing one out in the rain and mud up north

50 plus points can't complain

Re: Barrow game positives negatives : Sun Feb 04, 2018 8:23 pm  

Compared to the start we had last season this was good. We respected possession, apart from a couple of times we built pressure rather than thinking we had to score anytime we got close to the line.
How they will go up in West Yorks next weekend is a different matter, but that’s another game

Re: Barrow game positives negatives : Mon Feb 05, 2018 4:56 am  

On the good side, very good with our discipline, complete a lot of our sets, did the basics very well, and scored a few good tries... Also Sammut for once made touch with each Pen

On the -ve side, I dont think we are as dynamic as last year, and I can see us struggle vs better more organised defences. The game vs Fev will be a good marker of where we are, I dont think we are as strong in attack as last year, but we seem to have at least cut out the 10 mins each half when we switched off.

Re: Barrow game positives negatives : Mon Feb 05, 2018 11:04 am  

The two youngsters, Meadows and Davis Jnr, were both very confident. Playing behind a dominant pack makes such a massive difference, they won't be on the front foot and enjoying that sort of space every week. But a good job nonetheless.

Elsewhere, a good performance all round but definitely areas to tighten up on. Some tough games coming up too.

Re: Barrow game positives negatives : Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:18 am  

Well boys and girls, we've had worse starts to the season eh?

Re: Barrow game positives negatives : Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:35 pm  

Should Rob Powell be given some praise,and thanks,for his development of the young players through the system?

Seems to be going quite well and saving the club the expense of signing players from elsewhere.

Re: Barrow game positives negatives : Tue Feb 06, 2018 4:41 pm  

Good god man are you mad? Praising Rob Powell!! Crazy talk man go and have a word with yrself.

Re: Barrow game positives negatives : Tue Feb 06, 2018 10:04 pm  

Ornery Optimist wrote:

Should Rob Powell be given some praise,and thanks,for his development of the young players through the system?

Seems to be going quite well and saving the club the expense of signing players from elsewhere.

as he was before being plucked from his good work to replace Mac on the whim of........I don't think anyone has ever said he wasn't/isn't a top class kids coach.

Re: Barrow game positives negatives : Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:17 am  

He has inherited a good kids structure managed previously by Jonesey.

I think we've always had a good line of kids. Only a few have gone on to be decent SL players sadly not with us. Im racking my brains, have any kids stayed with us in the first team for over lets say 5 years? We do seems to lose them young.