Re: In the morning light ... : Mon Jul 24, 2017 3:13 pm  

charlie63wildcat wrote:

I left it 24hrs to say anything because I was so disappointed by our performance yesterday. But the reality is we can make this a disaster that affects us going into the 8's or we can just see it for what it is; we lost to a good side on the day. Next week, viewed on our whole season, we are perfectly capable of beating any team in the 8, some with more chance than the others, but I think we are capable of 5/7 games wins here which might see us in the semis. Come on Trin!

If we get 5/7 wins in the Super 8's we would definitely be in the semi finals.

Re: In the morning light ... : Mon Jul 24, 2017 4:03 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I have to say when you see the highlights, we did a lot of good things yesterday. We weren't rubbish.....just not our best.

This is exactly it for me, we were good and there were some great individual efforts but for whatever reason, we looked constantly out of ideas and on the back foot. I'd put yesterday in the top 3 worst games of the season, along with Salford in the Cup and Leeds Away. What's odd though is in those games we looked dominated, but yesterday we didn't. Saints were good, but individually no better than us, however they seemed to work far better as a team which is why they always looked to be on the front foot. Yesterday was by no means the end of the season, but it's made the final 7 games much more difficult as we've lost the cushion we'd built up both in points on the table and points difference.

Re: In the morning light ... : Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:00 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I have to say when you see the highlights, we did a lot of good things yesterday. We weren't rubbish.....just not our best.

Correct, it just wasn't our day - why some people can't accept that is beyond me - it's swings and roundabout yet to some one defeat is a disaster.

Re: In the morning light ... : Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:41 pm  

Always a bit disappointing when you go into a game full of hope and one that means so much and come up so short...it wasn't through lack of effort though, just comprehensively beaten by a better team on the day....I also think knowing what we needed to do played a part mentally, especially when on a position of having to chase the game...

It's simple where we lost the game...people can say stats are misleading and sometimes they can be but on this occasion they tell the true story...they made just short of 600 metres more than us in the game and I'd hazard a guess that's the biggest difference against any team all season....our big men down the middle who so often this season have laid the platform were a clear 2nd best....Huby, Walker and Fifita only managed a combined total of 141 metres....Dave usually does that on his own most games...

Because of that we were never on the front foot and never won the ruck all game...

I'm a little concerned for Huby...6 carries for 27 metres is way short of what he's capable of...CC said the other week they were managing him through and I think it's definitely affected his recent performances...hopefully this two week break will be a real benefit for him and he can get back to his brilliant and influential form of most of the season..

It's still been a remarkable season and one no Trinity fan can be disappointed with...we can still have an impact in the super 8's too...the quality is definitely there...maybe now teams will just expect us to drop away which could work in our favour!

Re: In the morning light ... : Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:48 pm  

I have to say I was as upset as anyone by the manner of the defeat - I really thought we'd make a game of it but we blew it. Why? well we were subject of some very questionable decisions and we did blow a couple of chances BUT the real reason is Saints were on fire and have come good at the right time. In reality we couldn't live with them. They were yards quicker than us in attack and defence, but we have a chance to redeem ourselves (IF we get better!) in the play-offs when we meet them again!

Re: In the morning light ... : Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:10 pm  

upthecats wrote:

Always a bit disappointing when you go into a game full of hope and one that means so much and come up so short...it wasn't through lack of effort though, just comprehensively beaten by a better team on the day....I also think knowing what we needed to do played a part mentally, especially when on a position of having to chase the game...

It's simple where we lost the game...people can say stats are misleading and sometimes they can be but on this occasion they tell the true story...they made just short of 600 metres more than us in the game and I'd hazard a guess that's the biggest difference against any team all season....our big men down the middle who so often this season have laid the platform were a clear 2nd best....Huby, Walker and Fifita only managed a combined total of 141 metres....Dave usually does that on his own most games...

Because of that we were never on the front foot and never won the ruck all game...

I'm a little concerned for Huby...6 carries for 27 metres is way short of what he's capable of...CC said the other week they were managing him through and I think it's definitely affected his recent performances...hopefully this two week break will be a real benefit for him and he can get back to his brilliant and influential form of most of the season..

It's still been a remarkable season and one no Trinity fan can be disappointed with...we can still have an impact in the super 8's too...the quality is definitely there...maybe now teams will just expect us to drop away which could work in our favour!

Agree with most of that. One thing the stats don't show and it's something not many teams have done to our forwards this year was put our forwards on their backs. I could probably count the amount of times we landed on our fronts on one hand. It really slowed us down and went in large ways towards those metres stats. The opposite for saints who landed on their fronts time after time.