Re: I just cannot understand the criticism : Tue Jun 11, 2019 12:08 pm  

thebeagle wrote:

All ifs, buts and maybes. Remember Batchelor chose to dummy and threw a try away against Catalans at ‘Magic’.
Can’t remember him copping the criticism Tanginoa is , who in my opinion had a good game against Leeds.

Nobody is criticising him - merely having a very civilised discussion about how that break was mishandled by both of the players involved.

Re: I just cannot understand the criticism : Tue Jun 11, 2019 12:17 pm  

When coaching 2v1 & 3v1 situations you task the ball carrier with fixing then dragging the defender away from the support.

You would also task the support to keep some depth and width while timing their run.

Re: I just cannot understand the criticism : Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:00 pm  

Just watched the game back, I can’t see why any individual player is getting criticised. Yes there was the odd dumb mistake but with weather like that it’s hardly going to be free flowing rugby. The new lad from Manly is 3 games in and clearly has potential. He’s hard running and has an offload in him, give him the chance.

On a dry track and with all that pressure in the first half we put points on the board regardless of the opposition.

I can see why people are annoyed losing 10-0 but I don’t think it’s as bad as 90% of the posts on here suggest

Re: I just cannot understand the criticism : Wed Jun 12, 2019 9:50 am  

wakefield1990 wrote:

Just watched the game back, I can’t see why any individual player is getting criticised. Yes there was the odd dumb mistake but with weather like that it’s hardly going to be free flowing rugby. The new lad from Manly is 3 games in and clearly has potential. He’s hard running and has an offload in him, give him the chance.

On a dry track and with all that pressure in the first half we put points on the board regardless of the opposition.

I can see why people are annoyed losing 10-0 but I don’t think it’s as bad as 90% of the posts on here suggest

I'm annoyed for various reasons.
Lack of ideas in front of the line.
Leeds are a very poor side.
Being nilled at home.

Re: I just cannot understand the criticism : Wed Jun 12, 2019 10:00 am  

JINJER wrote:

I'm annoyed for various reasons.
Lack of ideas in front of the line.
Leeds are a very poor side.
Being nilled at home.

Yep. And the fact that it was on TV again.

Spoke to a lapsed fan i know yesterday. His phrase was..

‘I’ve watched them on the box for the last two weeks, i see they are still just as c**p as they were when i was going down. Glad i don’t waste my money anymore’.

Performances like Friday are extremely damaging. The ‘floating’ fans need no excuse to not bother and time and time again we give them that perfect excuse. And they care not one jot about injuries and the balance sheet and the like. It’s results and performances that count and we are struggling there tight now.

Re: I just cannot understand the criticism : Wed Jun 12, 2019 11:47 am  

Sacred Cow wrote:

Yep. And the fact that it was on TV again.

Spoke to a lapsed fan i know yesterday. His phrase was..

‘I’ve watched them on the box for the last two weeks, i see they are still just as c**p as they were when i was going down. Glad i don’t waste my money anymore’.

Performances like Friday are extremely damaging. The ‘floating’ fans need no excuse to not bother and time and time again we give them that perfect excuse. And they care not one jot about injuries and the balance sheet and the like. It’s results and performances that count and we are struggling there tight now.

Took my two grandchildren to the game on fri ,not ideal weather by any means but players and fans were flat ,nothing to shout and get excited about .Asked both last night if they want to go to Salford and drew a blank .kids need entertaining to keep them interested in our Great game ,unfortunately we aren’t producing that excitement that they crave ,with just two sparks in the whole game ,our break up field then their try the other way .Im trying my best to get my kids n grandkids into it ,but it’s hard work especially without our crowd pleaser fifita on the park.