The game today : Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:22 pm  

so we didn't have such a good first half but the real question I feel is how much longer can the RFL allow Ronnie Lawton to take charge of any games

Re: The game today : Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:44 pm  

Dont think Ronnie Lawton had any thing to do with the result as he gave strange discissions to both sides.

We was beaten by a side who wanted to win a lot more than us. We had no urgency today apart from a few including bainsy, craig moss and gav duffy. We didnt have a clue on the kicking game and Workington played to thier strengths.

Now about the Worky fans. At the start of the game it was a godd atmosphere with a lot of worky fans singing and some of the Cougar fans singing back. How ever it changed when they decided to start swaring. IT happened when we went up to their place. But what can you expect when the Workington team come over after the game and start swaring at the top of thier voices.

Any way enough from me lets hope we get to the final n beat em

Re: The game today : Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:48 pm  

The real question i think we should be asking is..... Will the season ticket holders get some sort of fan loyalty discount for the rochdale game??? i.e ticket holders get in for a fiver or eight as long as they bring there ticket.

As for the game one definatly to forget no positives at all really iam absolutly gutted we didnt win as iam sure we all are but we did'nt look intrested at times in the first half the second half not as bad but left it too late.

Re: The game today : Sun Sep 18, 2011 5:19 pm  

Was all set for a Laughton bash, but think we have to look closer to home to why we lost. 9 points behind going into the last 10-15 mins, we should have been throwing everything at Workington, but there was a lack of commitment & that has to be questionned. The kicks in the 2nd half were woeful. With the sun in their eyes they should have been high.

Why was it left until the final few minutes before they thought about bringing Wray back on.

A gesture to the fans for next week would be nice by reducing the admission.

Re: The game today : Sun Sep 18, 2011 5:23 pm  

As a general overview - we didn't turn-up!

We only had one half-back with pace - Ryan Smith. When we moved the ball with pace then we scored BUT, it's like when Woody still used to think that he was a good stand-off (too late in his career) then he lost us more games than he won from that position.

I'm still waiting for Dave Halley to show his 'Super League' credentials. How much longer and how many more tries is he going to concede before we have a winger who shows that he actually wants to play for us? WE must surely have someone better than him on his current and past form. Letting opponents score tries when out of position and skipping into tackles surely isn't what he's paid to do!

JD wasn't up to his usual form - good in parts but he should be playing at loose forward and, if Coleman is as good as JD believes, then he should play at stand-off. You've just got to look at the Warrington and Cataln games this weekend to realise that PACE WINS GAMES. That's how we scored two tries; BUT blundrering down the middle gets us nowhere, especuially when we run straight into thier tackles.

Some 'off-games' all round but Craig Moss, Gavin Duffy and Ryan Smith, in my opinion, can hold their head's up high, as can Jamaine, Buster and one or two others.

We're really up against it now and we surely can't stick with the same team that started today's game! Or can we?

Laughton up to his usual pathetic standard, as was one of the 'assistants'. Better not upset 'Guess Who' though - is he a relation of Ronnie?

Re: The game today : Sun Sep 18, 2011 5:31 pm  

666 wrote:

As a general overview - we didn't turn-up!

We only had one half-back with pace - Ryan Smith. When we moved the ball with pace then we scored BUT, it's like when Woody still used to think that he was a good stand-off (too late in his career) then he lost us more games than he won from that position.

I'm still waiting for Dave Halley to show his 'Super League' credentials. How much longer and how many more tries is he going to concede before we have a winger who shows that he actually wants to play for us? WE must surely have someone better than him on his current and past form. Letting opponents score tries when out of position and skipping into tackles surely isn't what he's paid to do!

JD wasn't up to his usual form - good in parts but he should be playing at loose forward and, if Coleman is as good as JD believes, then he should play at stand-off. You've just got to look at the Warrington and Cataln games this weekend to realise that PACE WINS GAMES. That's how we scored two tries; BUT blundrering down the middle gets us nowhere, especuially when we run straight into thier tackles.

Some 'off-games' all round but Craig Moss, Gavin Duffy and Ryan Smith, in my opinion, can hold their head's up high, as can Jamaine, Buster and one or two others.

We're really up against it now and we surely can't stick with the same team that started today's game! Or can we?

I have to fully agree with all you have wrote.

666 wrote:

Laughton up to his usual pathetic standard, as was one of the 'assistants'. Better not upset 'Guess Who' though - is he a relation of Ronnie?

Laughton was ok, his young linesman was very,very poor.

And you do love me really dont you

Re: The game today : Sun Sep 18, 2011 5:43 pm  

agree with most of everything above. bad decision on the try, but maybe downward pressure wasn't as obvious as it should have been? dodgy decisions from the ref went both ways.

Workington slowed down a lot of the PTBs giving their defence time to sort themselves out, but the Cougars were too static in attack.

would like to see Hutch back on the left wing. and would also like Law not to have touched the bloody ball today giving away our first set immediately and gifting Workington a set from which they scored.

Duffy wasn't too bad today, but for all his jinking i still don't think he'd get past my mum

Re: The game today : Sun Sep 18, 2011 5:53 pm  

We should have learnt by now that the negative "Stick it up your Jumper, and trundle forward" style of play will not win you games against the better teams. This has been shown aginst Rochdale, Oldham, Whitehaven twice and probaly a few more that I can't remember. By doing this we make it easy for the defenders and it means we have to dominate for long periods of time to enable our feeble attack to finally cross the line. Also all it takes is one mistake, or bit of adventure from the opposition and all our domination is cancelled out.
If we play like this again next week we will lose as Rochdale have much more flair and pace than us, so just defending and hoping the ten or so points we are cabable of scoring will be enough will mean we fall way short.

Re: The game today : Sun Sep 18, 2011 5:55 pm  

I think Duffy had a very good game compared to some who looked uninterested , code switch has your mum signed for anyone for next season if shes that good she may be worth a loan signing at least
We must hit the ground running next week and take no prisoners
I need a beer

Re: The game today : Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:13 pm  

Anyone know why our try was disallowed in the second half? That would have put us in a good position at the time.