Re: Who knew? : Sun Sep 24, 2017 12:41 pm  

JINJER wrote:

A bit O/T here but Huby was fantastic with one of our group yesterday, the kids only ten year old, CH was on his way down the tunnel at the end of the game, he turned to CH and asked for his shorts, he said he'd be back out in five minutes, I thought, ah well the kid tried. Minutes later he was back out, came looking for the kid, took his shorts off and gave him the shorts and one of his boots. The kid was chuffed to bits. Great thought from Craig.

That in a nutshell encapsulates why I love Rugby League and the overwhelming majority of people in the game. None of this soccer player prima donna stuff. Can you imaging the crowd at a football ground being invited onto the pitch at the end of the game to talk to their heroes? See any of the lads around town and as long as you are not being intrusive they are quite happy to pass the time of day they don't seem to walk round with headphones on or be on a 'fake' call on their mobile to avoid talking to you.

Re: Who knew? : Sun Sep 24, 2017 2:33 pm  

One of the many nice things I saw yesterday came from one of the players I least expected it to come from. Tomkins booted the ball out hard from the in-goal area into the crowd to stop a try. The first thing he did was head over to the fence and apologised to the fans for kicking the ball at them (obviously it was unintentionally at them)

Massive kudos to him for doing that as he'd been getting some stick from the Northstand before that. He's gone up in my estimations for that as the vast majority of away players do their best to ignore the home fans

Re: Who knew? : Sun Sep 24, 2017 3:15 pm  

Tbf to kh its is first season in sl so well played KH

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Re: Who knew? : Sun Sep 24, 2017 6:42 pm  

cosmicat wrote:

Tbf to kh its is first season in sl so well played KH

I agree. The only thing he lacks for me is experience.
He's a great metre gainer and fits our style.
He's an obvious choice and will only get better.

Re: Who knew? : Sun Sep 24, 2017 7:11 pm  

REDWHITEANDBLUE wrote:

Crowds will increase but its a slow process, the product on the pitch is attactive attacking rugby not based on the endless years of Aussie defensive drills first. We have had loads of bad press over the years so building up trust etc. Takes time. MC & CB are well on the way with this. There is apathy in the game, I do not have sky and barely hear anything about the game unless I come on here or social media. Back to my first point Chessy and the staff have built a great attacking team that will only get better, the likes of Hull Cas ourselves and Leeds play more attacking styles compare that to the dross served up by Wigan yesterday, wrestling and niggling away, the legacy of structures put in by their previous Aussie coach that Wane was assistant to and tipped to go to Wire. Quite frankly the British style of rugby is much better to watch sadly we have an Aussie coach in charge of the National team so we play the Aussie way, we will win nothing at that level, the UK game needs to play to its strengths. Good on Powell, Chester and Radford. The fans will return playing the brand we have now adopted.

Aussie game built on defence I thought the way to win is to out score the opposition and lets not forget sport is entertainment for the masses!

I think this statement about the Aussie game, sums up why Salford signed Hasson.
You put him on the field and he'll do you 50 tackles, he won't break many tackles and offers nothing off the bench.
He's a good defensive tackling player, his stats made him look better than what is suited to the British game.

Re: Who knew? : Sun Sep 24, 2017 8:24 pm  

Keegan Hirst seems to have slimmed down considerably over the last few months. Good to see him score though and I think he deserves to be at BV next year.

Re: Who knew? : Mon Sep 25, 2017 12:54 am  

Egg Banjo wrote:

One of the many nice things I saw yesterday came from one of the players I least expected it to come from. Tomkins booted the ball out hard from the in-goal area into the crowd to stop a try. The first thing he did was head over to the fence and apologised to the fans for kicking the ball at them (obviously it was unintentionally at them)

Massive kudos to him for doing that as he'd been getting some stick from the Northstand before that. He's gone up in my estimations for that as the vast majority of away players do their best to ignore the home fans

Which is nice to hear, players get slagged off, especially Sam Tomkins and I for one (even though I give him sh it) think he always seems a decent lad.

Re: Who knew? : Mon Sep 25, 2017 8:49 am  

Egg Banjo wrote:

He's a genuinely nice chap. Spoke to him a couple of times at other events, he does loads for SSAFA and it seems he's been a big support for Hirst over the past couple of years.

I'm proper made up for Hirst though for scoring that last minute try, the whole team were trying so hard to get him over the line

When I saw him coming back on for that final stint, I said to TRB that they were doing their best to get him his first try and to stick him out on the wing ( ) to give him a better chance of scoring !! We were gutted after his first attempt was stopped inches short and absolutely ecstatic when he did get over seconds later

Well done Keegan

Re: Who knew? : Mon Sep 25, 2017 9:12 am  

It was great to see KH get over - he looked made up to be off the nudie run; and very clever work by Williams and Finn to get him over - that took a bit of creating.

It'll be good to see confirmation that he's staying - seems a cracking lad and has really improved over the year; not a barnstormer like Big Dave, but I can only imagine the corrosive effect on defenders of stopping him time and time again - he's massive, and strong as an ox.