Re: Batley 42 - 10 Cougars : Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:56 am  

Stand out on not good day at the office was the debut of josh Lynham who worked his backside off after coming on from the bench and gave a few of our more senior players a lesson in effort and enthusiasm

Re: Batley 42 - 10 Cougars : Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:45 am  

I wonder what the stats for the game looked like.

The amount of passes that went to ground from us.
The amount of missed tackles.

And the biggest worry for me. I wonder how many yards we made in the tackle compared to Batley. They seemed to be going forward in the tackle and we either went backwards of were stopped.

All across the field they made much more yardage than use.

One thing we can take from yesterday. Is watch a vid of the game and copy the way they controlled the tackle. They used the wrestle much better than we did thus slowing our play of the ball down.

Re: Batley 42 - 10 Cougars : Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:21 pm  

I can only echo what has been previously said, yesterday was hands down one of the worst performances I have seen from a Cougar side.

The lack of enthusiasm in defence was alarming, refusal to track back, letting attackers waltz past to get onto kicks, prop forwards side stepping their way past our static defenders. It was shocking from start to finish.

Only positive for me was the new scrum half, Leatherbarrow, already showed more promise than Obst did in the whole of last season. Decent kickoffs which got us the ball back 3 times and always wanted the ball.

Does anyone know if Richard Jones is still on the books? First part of last season he was one of the stand out players.

Re: Batley 42 - 10 Cougars : Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:57 pm  

Richard went to Gloucester I think.

Re: Batley 42 - 10 Cougars : Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:38 pm  

The people who say this is the worst ever have obviously forgotten our 2010 visit to the Mount. This Video is Hosted on Youtube : Users should see the AUP for allowable uses

The people who say this is the worst ever have obviously forgotten our 2010 visit to the Mount. This Video is Hosted on Youtube : Users should see the AUP for allowable uses

Re: Batley 42 - 10 Cougars : Wed Feb 06, 2013 7:08 pm  

"Only positive for me was the new scrum half, Leatherbarrow, already showed more promise than Obst did in the whole of last season. Decent kickoffs which got us the ball back 3 times and always wanted the ball."

Not sure how you highlight the above so just copied and pasted it.

Whoever has posted that comment is a idiot.
Our new No7 is far too young to comand the same respect as Sam Obst.
He has come to us to gain experience thats why he's not at Wigan.
How many 20 y/o half backs are running round Super league?
You can not buy Sam Obsts experience and respect on and off the pitch
Last year we had Demetriou, Obst, Korkidas and Tadulala.
All these players comand respect in training, changing rooms and matches.
We do not have this anymore and have replaced them with journey men and possibles.
Maybe when your knocking Obst just think that maybe the players round him are not up to his normal standard of play.
Because he's done it year in, year out at the top level.

Re: Batley 42 - 10 Cougars : Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:36 pm  

Couldnt agree more Claytoa. Leatherbarrow was by far the best player on the pitch for us. As for Mr Hicks comments i think maybe its you thats the idiot. Obst did nothing last year. He looked like an average chapionship player. Why does it matter how old a player is if he plays well on the pitch?? All Obst ever used to do was moan when things went wrong when the majority of time it was his fault. What a waste of money he was in a divison which we couldnt get relegated or promoted. So what was the point?? As for off the pitch the crowds havnt increased and the expeiience hasnt got better. Maybe it was Obst been to good for the other players but what is the point in having a player like that if he dosnt fit in teams play?? End of the day we put a lot of money into these Champagne players and not one of them has done anything to change anything at Cougar park. The crowd is the same!!! Get young players involvedbecause thats the future. Look at Wigans side tonight. 9 players are from Wigan who came through thier jounior set up. Explain that one Mr Hicks.

Re: Batley 42 - 10 Cougars : Fri Feb 08, 2013 10:09 pm  

From your comments i wouldnt want to explain anything to you as you dont seen to know anything about rugby.
But i will leave you with this one.
Youth is fine but you need experience to be successful. Why are Warrington still playing with Morley (35), Briers (34), Brett Hodgson (35), Monaghan (32), Carvell (32),
One question i will ask, have you ever played the game. If the answer is yes. When you were in a hard game who did you look to and who did you listen to.

Re: Batley 42 - 10 Cougars : Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:40 pm  

I probably know a lot more about Rugby than a lot of people down at the club and yes i have played the game. You may look up to certain older players. But this is not the case all of the time. You have singled out one team which has a lot of elder players. What about Sam Tomkins. Players and rugby league as a whole look up to him. Is he old??? I think the comment is ridiculous about his age. Why would it matter if he has put a mom performence in? We have other older players that we can look up to. Shickkle, March, Buster is young but been at the club a long time. Do you think the players last year looked upto Obst?? A player that they knew wouldnt be there the next season. I dont think so. It was just JD keeping his mates happy. Like ive said a waste of money which has got us no where on the field on no where off the field.

Re: Batley 42 - 10 Cougars : Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:43 pm  

As for the question about who i looked too in a hard game. It would be the big personality players. Some old and some young. Why does age make a difference?