The game today - comments please : Sun Aug 15, 2010 4:20 pm  

What was that today?

Can anyone point out the postives in the performance that shows that keighley are worthy of the championship?, at this point it may be worth mentioning that the lack of effort shown in the first half will lose games when we are in c1

Yes the team fought back to within 1 point of winning but why did they let themselves get into the position they were in at half time?

There were a lot of negative comments from the fans, keighley have let themselves and their fans down today - what a way to end the season! - BOTTOM!

Re: The game today - comments please : Sun Aug 15, 2010 4:47 pm  

First half many players looked like they couldn't be bothered.

Barry gave them an almighty bollocking after one of the tries. It was clearly audible and he questioned their pride, passion and commitment. It drew applause from those who heard it.

He must have laid in to them again at half-time because we came out showing much more effort and dynamism.

But we dropped far too much ball, including losing it just about every kick-off we received.

Some of the selection decisions were baffling, again Barry's played himself instead of back up half backs at the club.

Re: The game today - comments please : Sun Aug 15, 2010 6:05 pm  

If we think we will sweep teams aside in Championship 1 next season with performances like that then we are in for a shock.
This was not Rhinos we were playing. It was a very demoralised, underperforming Whitehaven. They made us look a joke in the first half. I have never heard Cougars boo'd off, but they were at half time.

The transformation in the second half showed that some people couldn't be bothered in the first 40.

On a serious note if the ref had spotted the forward pass, that lead to them scoring in the first half we would be above Whitehaven. But based on how we played 1st half we didn't deserve to be.

80 minutes.

Re: The game today - comments please : Sun Aug 15, 2010 6:26 pm  

MICKY1920 wrote:

If we think we will sweep teams aside in Championship 1 next season with performances like that then we are in for a shock.
This was not Rhinos we were playing. It was a very demoralised, underperforming Whitehaven. They made us look a joke in the first half. I have never heard Cougars boo'd off, but they were at half time.

The transformation in the second half showed that some people couldn't be bothered in the first 40.

On a serious note if the ref had spotted the forward pass, that lead to them scoring in the first half we would be above Whitehaven. But based on how we played 1st half we didn't deserve to be.

80 minutes.

Had they not bombed two certain tries, we would have not even got a bonus point.

If we play like that against Widnes next week they could well reach 3 figures.

Re: The game today - comments please : Sun Aug 15, 2010 6:42 pm  

What a sad ending it will be to our season. Sorry but we need some investment and pretty damn quick !

Re: The game today - comments please : Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:58 pm  

Chris Baines should have been MOM by a Country mile.

Re: The game today - comments please : Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:24 pm  

After all the good work the team has done this season it looks like we are going to finish on a real downer. We should have been applauding the efforts the team has put in, but unless they come up with something special next week the chances are the team will be walking off to silence and an empty stadium.
I can't undestand some of the team selections. Haythornthwaite has been on the bench virtually every match, but when you would expect him to cover for Presley, Barry plays himself. Other alternatives would be Helliwell or Shepard.
What's the point of signing these players if they are not getting a game in the first team even when there are injuries?
Another player who always is good in attack (something we were sadly missing today) is Carl Hughes, but he seems out of favour. Why? He, to me is a quality player who should be on without question.

Re: The game today - comments please : Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:41 pm  

My video highlights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkU5adiaVoQ

My video highlights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkU5adiaVoQ

Re: The game today - comments please : Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:49 pm  

MICKY1920 wrote:

Chris Baines should have been MOM by a Country mile.

He looked good in attack for the 2 tries he scored.

2 or 3 clean breaks came down his channel when he was defending though.

All in all though he did do well considering he's a loose forward/stand off who was playing in the centres, one of a number of square pegs we've had in round holes recently. Like a centre at full-back, a scrum half at stand-off and a hooker at scrum-half.

Re: The game today - comments please : Sun Aug 15, 2010 11:06 pm  

If Barry Eaton has to play himself

'don't pass to me I need my breath to complain when you don't cover my missed tackles'

then we must be really in the mire!

How on earth can he justify to any true Keighley supporter that he is deemed good-enough to play for the full 80 minutes?

Don't we have any back-up in the second team?

Shouldn't he have given these players a chance?

It was the same against Widnes in the NR Cup game - they targetted him and scored -BECAUSE HE WASN'T FAST ENOUGH OR FIT ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is it a case of

'If I don't play then I'll take my ball home'?

We started the game, and finished it with 12 fit men - what a debacle!

How on earth can he justify substituting 'Buster' after the crunching tackles that he made and also not playing Jermaine for the full 80? Which planet is he on? Why doesn't he realise that he's past playing - everyone at CP today saw that he was - his display was pathetic (OK - I'm waiting for the two tries that he made - BUT if he had tackled instead of complaining then HE would have saved two tries in the first half!

We have some good players but Barry is no-longer one of them and HE and HE ALONE lost us the game today!

For the sake of the future of the Cougars - PLEASE HANG-UP YOUR BOOTS TOMORROW and give youth a chance!

Like Beckham; you don't know when it is time to retire from playing!

I await the criticism from those who think he's still as great as he was.

As far as I'm concerned, enough is enough!