Cougars 16 - 46 Leigh : Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:50 pm  

Couldn't make the game today and to be honest I'm glad I didn't go again, never thought in a million years I'd ever be saying that. I listened to Jam Radio and up dates with radio leeds. Don't really know what to say anymore as the first half sounded ok and signs of improvements but the second well, can't take anything away from Leigh as they played well but sounded like we helped them along the way with bad choices and mistakes. This was the score against Leigh at home, I dread to think what the score is going to be at Fev.

Sorry folks but I'm standing by my opinion on our Coach, he has to go this cannot continue. Once again look forward to your opinions on the current situation and the game.

Re: Cougars 16 - 46 Leigh : Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:02 pm  

I couldn't go either and just caught a bit of Radio Leeds when they went across to Cougar Park at the end of the game. The correspondent said he thought the coaches and players would be under a bit of pressure at Keighley after what he described as a 'woeful display of Rugby League'. That's me in a foul mood for the rest of the evening. How do we go from being a fairly decent Championship team to being the team that gets beat every week? I daren't even contemplate what Fev will do to us. Fed up!

Re: Cougars 16 - 46 Leigh : Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:24 pm  

Sounded ok for 20mins and then once again we had been figured out and Cougars the predictable got thrashed. There is nothing different about us or our play, its the same week in week out and its not taking long for teams to read us and when they do we go to pieces.

The Salford Coach has been sacked due to results, I feel it's time for our board to start making some decisions because looking at the table someone is going down with Barrow and at the minute that someone is us. The rest of the teams at the bottom are starting to pull away and the longer this is allowed to go the harder it is going to be to get out of the bottom 2.

How have we gone from getting to a grand final and winning promotion, first season in the championship and finishing in the playoffs to THIS

Re: Cougars 16 - 46 Leigh : Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:28 pm  

Well I went , the first 30 minutes of the first half we played some good rugby and then some
totally fantastic rugby ,then our heads went down ,simple as that.
The other thing I have to say is well done to Barnett,what a great first half he had
and a brace of tries to boot,well done !
The second half was woeful ,as described by Radio Leeds , they lost all hope and any momentum
they had gathered. Once Leigh had sussed our gameplan out and shut it down that was
it,the bulk of the time we played like a schoolboy team.

Start taking note of what is happeneing in Championship One as that is where
we are heading.

I too stand by my comments that Paul March has to go.

We have gone from one of the better teams in the Championship
to the worst , all the good work of the last couple of sesons has now been
undone and wasted , now is the time to act Board ,please at least try to salvage
something from this season.

Re: Cougars 16 - 46 Leigh : Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:55 pm  

Deafened by the silence !

Re: Cougars 16 - 46 Leigh : Sun Mar 03, 2013 10:14 pm  

If the games were each only twenty minutes long we would be great. However just before half time and straight after we are always scored against! Does anyone have statistics that shows this?? It just seems every match to me.

Re: Cougars 16 - 46 Leigh : Mon Mar 04, 2013 5:29 am  

In the 5 league games. We have conceded a try between 30-40 mins in 3 of them. Between 40-50 mins in 4 games.

Re: Cougars 16 - 46 Leigh : Mon Mar 04, 2013 8:55 am  

Stealth Comic wrote:

In the 5 league games. We have conceded a try between 30-40 mins in 3 of them. Between 40-50 mins in 4 games.

I don't think it's a coincidence that this coincides with us rotating players. Does it also coincide with the point in the game where we change our tactics?

We looked good for the first 30 because we played rugby how it should be played - moved the ball fast, had men hitting the ball at pace, made some intelligent kicks that made Leigh work hard.

Then we just went back to the predictable - Held the ball for too long, not drawing a man, catching the ball flat footed, no dummy runners, didn't make Leigh have to think.

Leigh looked a decent side once they got rolling but as the game went on we looked increasingly short of ideas and confidence.

Re: Cougars 16 - 46 Leigh : Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:19 pm  

On the terraces wrote:

Couldn't make the game today and to be honest I'm glad I didn't go again, never thought in a million years I'd ever be saying that. I listened to Jam Radio and up dates with radio leeds. Don't really know what to say anymore as the first half sounded ok and signs of improvements but the second well, can't take anything away from Leigh as they played well but sounded like we helped them along the way with bad choices and mistakes. This was the score against Leigh at home, I dread to think what the score is going to be at Fev.

Sorry folks but I'm standing by my opinion on our Coach, he has to go this cannot continue. Once again look forward to your opinions on the current situation and the game.

CountyDurhamCougar wrote:

I couldn't go either and just caught a bit of Radio Leeds when they went across to Cougar Park at the end of the game. The correspondent said he thought the coaches and players would be under a bit of pressure at Keighley after what he described as a 'woeful display of Rugby League'. That's me in a foul mood for the rest of the evening. How do we go from being a fairly decent Championship team to being the team that gets beat every week? I daren't even contemplate what Fev will do to us. Fed up!

It was always going to be a tough game and we can all sit here bitching about Marchy!! It is a team effort from all the players, fact of the matter is the players are just fighting just to keep a positive outlook and it is very difficult to pull players round when you have back to back defeats!!!
Yeah the pressure is on Marchy, but it is still early days as far as the season is concerned. Marchy is in a new job with a new squad and injuries to contend with and if anyone knows anything regarding coaching a new team they will no that any successful team, that started out with a new coach takes time.
We have played against some tough teams so far and if you look at the fixtures other clubs have played, they have played easier fixtures than us, things will settle down.
I have been to all games this season and things aren't fantastic but they are slowly improving every week. I am not expecting too much this thursday, but we have tendered to step up to big games in the past. Anyway hopefully we will have some die hard supporters there on thursday have some real feedback rather than some just judging from listening to the radio then at least we will have a good constructive debate.
COME ON COUGARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!