Re: Whitbread : Mon Jun 06, 2022 1:10 pm  

Kettykat wrote:

He reminds me some what of Stosic , in so far as he’s not the biggest but drives the ball in well ,and puts a shift in on the tackling front .Whereas big Dave by his own admission likes to run a line and not head on ,whitbread runs straight n hard and makes good ground, it’s taken a while but he seems to be finding his feet and all we need now Is Butler coming good and we don’t have a bad pack .

Not sure where you get this bit, he's easily one of our biggest, probably second only to Dave, he's a big unit.

Re: Whitbread : Mon Jun 06, 2022 2:00 pm  

vastman wrote:

Not sure where you get this bit, he's easily one of our biggest, probably second only to Dave, he's a big unit.

Where did I say one of ours , why does it always have to be brownie points with you, he was up against Kane Evans , Luigi Sao and Scott Taylor who are considerably bigger not to mention Chris Satae , who fortunately didn’t feature ,so to me he was one of the smallest if not thee smallest on the field yet put a good stint in .

Re: Whitbread : Mon Jun 06, 2022 2:06 pm  

Kettykat wrote:

Where did I say one of ours , why does it always have to be brownie points with you, he was up against Kane Evans , Luigi Sao and Scott Taylor who are considerably bigger not to mention Chris Satae , who fortunately didn’t feature ,so to me he was one of the smallest if not thee smallest on the field yet put a good stint in .

Strange overreaction. I assume by brownie points you mean you don't like being disagreed with? Slightly surprised as you usually seem quite reasonable.

You said he's not the biggest, I'm just stating that I think he's a fairly hefty unit. Yes, he's not quite as big as those you mention but he's still a large player IMHO.

To say he's one of the smallest on the field is just plain wrong IMO, I suggest you watch the game on Trinity TV, he is not overly outclassed size-wise by any of the Hull players, especially in regards to his solid frame.

Re: Whitbread : Mon Jun 06, 2022 2:18 pm  

PopTart wrote:

Not really, though I'm not sure how long he was on the pitch.

14 tackles. One miss.
4 drives with average 10 metre gain.

The stats aren't bad. Just not enough involvement. But that could be that we hold him back on the bench.

He didn't seem to be on the pitch that long, ease him in is fine, been a while since he played games at this intensity.

Re: Whitbread : Mon Jun 06, 2022 2:22 pm  

Yeah, we've just watched the game on Trinity TV and I reckon he only did between 15 and 20 minutes

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Re: Whitbread : Mon Jun 06, 2022 2:49 pm  

FIL wrote:

Yeah, we've just watched the game on Trinity TV and I reckon he only did between 15 and 20 minutes

It might have been because we lost Lyne so early so needed to make sure we didn't run out.

Keeping Dave off for so long worked too. They ganged up on him in his first stint but when he came back on he was bouncing them off. 1st and 4th quarter seemed to work.

Given the short time Butler was on, his stats look pretty good.