80 minutes battle and belief... : Fri Mar 07, 2014 10:02 pm  

by all 17 and a win v Leigh is not impossible. Victory would be the biggest boost for Keighley Cougars for years.

Re: 80 minutes battle and belief... : Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:03 am  

Its the joy of sport 17 v 17, with the verdict left on the pitch. One team has an off day, one team has that perfect game when everything sticks and the ball bounces the right way, one player has a brain fart and its 13 v 12 - anything can happen, and its why we fans don't want to miss it.
Hope the weather is good

Re: 80 minutes battle and belief... : Sat Mar 08, 2014 1:46 pm  

As I've commented on another post, if we cut out the silly penalties and unforced errors we might give Leigh a game. We have potential to be a good side, but we are ill disciplined and inconsistent.

They, on the other hand, have assembled a very good side and I just worry that when they raise the pace we might not be able to live with them.

Both Doncaster and Rochdale (for 40 mins anyway) had good organised attacks that we couldn't cope with. We need to deny Leigh easy field position and make them work for it. If we can't prevent prolonged attack on our line we're in for a tough afternoon.

Re: 80 minutes battle and belief... : Sat Mar 08, 2014 6:14 pm  

One can dream, but lets face it, the odds are against anything other than a big defeat. A win would be a miracle and a point would be a real result but a gutsy performace is about all we should resaonably exepct. Then we can all move on to a more winnable game.

Re: 80 minutes battle and belief... : Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:10 pm  

Cross Hills Cougar wrote:

by all 17 and a win v Leigh is not impossible. Victory would be the biggest boost for Keighley Cougars for years.

Well I wasn't far off. Cougars deserved to win and just missed out right at the death. This has the potential of being the best squad for 20 years. Hope all supporters get behind them home and away. Workington in 2 weeks is a real 6 pointer.

Re: 80 minutes battle and belief... : Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:39 am  

Cross Hills Cougar wrote:

This has the potential of being the best squad for 20 years. .

That's quite a claim when you consider that takes us back to 1994! Since then we've had the likes of Powell, Irvine, Gately, Fleary, Hall, Pinkney, Critchley, Antonik, Wood, Stoop, Ramshaw, Lee, I could go on......

IMO, we have some good players, who when they play like a team, show passion and desire, cut out the penalties and unforced errors, will give anyone a game.

Not sure what you mean with your comment about supporters, we have a reasonably fair bunch.

Re: 80 minutes battle and belief... : Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:47 am  

Perhaps all we need is for PM to be suspended for the rest of the season!

Re: 80 minutes battle and belief... : Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:37 pm  

Cross Hills Cougar wrote:

This has the potential of being the best squad for 20 years.

James Craven looks like the best full back since Andre Stoop and can you compare Paul Handforth with Craig Robinson? Are we getting carried away?

Re: 80 minutes battle and belief... : Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:49 pm  

I have to say that there was a certain excitement about the game on Sunday that gave me the feelings of that great days gone by too.

Can we compare Paul Handforth to Chris Robinson?

I have to say that as great as the cougars were in the days of cougarmania Chris Robinson was one of the weaker players of the team imo, Paul Handforth was pretty impressive and controlled the game exceptionally well on Sunday.

The best game I have seen at cougar park since cougarmania? I believe so but we need to see this quality display week in week out to believe that the cougarmania days can be once more

Re: 80 minutes battle and belief... : Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:37 pm  

Charlie thinks you have the makings of a good team ,no doubt the best team lost today , your full back and halves all played well , as did your pack , I agree about Cougarmania , but cut out the Cougar Crawl .