Re: NO DIXON, NO HOPE? : Sun Jun 02, 2013 3:40 pm  

wire quin wrote:

We played some decent stuff yesterday. Outplayed them and should have won.

Yes it was a better performance, but you have to admit in the second half they seemed to get to out line so quickly and they always looked dangerous & no way should we have allowed the lead we had disappear as it did, tired is not an excuse, they are professionals and train all week!

Re: NO DIXON, NO HOPE? : Sun Jun 02, 2013 3:49 pm  

10 mins is 10 sets. 5 each in simple terms

How did they score from 3 of there 5!

Thats about game management. When the games won, win it. Pump the ball 90 metres down the field and ask them to come 90 metres 3 times

Simple I accept. Why cant we do that?

Re: NO DIXON, NO HOPE? : Sun Jun 02, 2013 7:05 pm  

And when we did pump it down field in the first half they scored 90 metres pretty much unopposed. Second half they made 80m on occasions in a set of six. Game management I agree, just plain old defence would help on occasions.

Re: NO DIXON, NO HOPE? : Sun Jun 02, 2013 7:42 pm  

What was the penalty count yesterday?

Re: NO DIXON, NO HOPE? : Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:10 am  

penalty count was 6-11 in our favour, looked like the set completion rate was pretty good as well, only thing we came down on was offloads!
We were unlucky in not getting the decision on 2 tries, certainly looked forward from tv view and that did look like a foot on the touch line, but hey ho that's how things go in RL
Final penalty! did the strip save a four pointer?
More of a worry was the attendance, 1800 ish is pants

Disappointing result and its back to that old thing of being able to play for the full 80 mins
Ah well we may got double figures in the table by the end of the season

Re: NO DIXON, NO HOPE? : Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:35 am  

mickyb1234 wrote:

More of a worry was the attendance, 1800 ish is pants

Do you blame supporters not turning up! the way we are currently performing, its only going to be the die hard who will

Re: NO DIXON, NO HOPE? : Mon Jun 03, 2013 10:16 am  

We have been down to the die-hards for quite some time now and sadly, I know a few supporters who have already decided not to renew their STs next year (if there is a next year!).

At the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious, we are never can build a fanbase with one home win out of 8 games (think our home win ratio over the last four years is about 33%...strangely, it seems worse!).

Re: NO DIXON, NO HOPE? : Mon Jun 03, 2013 11:09 am  

wire quin wrote:

We played some decent stuff yesterday. Outplayed them and should have won.

I thought so too. Frustrating that we couldn't hold on but there were positives. Centres still very much a problem area but we looked solid enough elsewhere, especially up front.

Re: NO DIXON, NO HOPE? : Mon Jun 03, 2013 11:47 am  

jaybs wrote:

Do you blame supporters not turning up! the way we are currently performing, its only going to be the die hard who will

Remember how long this has been going on! After last season the fans thought we couldnt keep on like that again, but we near as well have!?

Theres a limit to how long you can maintain your core support season after season getting thrashed like this. Fans, especially casual ones cant see the club turning it around. Players added to last years squad havnt made any improvement, and most of us are not expecting anything from next seasons recruitment because of the inability to recruit quality players from Oz now. (Many uf are not convinced there wil be a next season which will put even more people off)

Re: NO DIXON, NO HOPE? : Mon Jun 03, 2013 12:01 pm  

Mickey are you sure they only got 6 penalties?