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Re: Donny up next : Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:59 pm  

I think we'll see our potential slightly more at Donny.
Nice big pitch. Not a slope or boggy area in sight. And a decent team to play.

I'm looking forward to it.

Re: Donny up next : Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:10 pm  

The return to the team of both Griffin and Thornley gives that right edge a lot more potency, would like to see Lino use one of them on a short ball near the line, will be very hard to stop. Have we had any news on when Jerry is back?

Re: Donny up next : Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:25 pm  

Dr Dreadnought wrote:

The return to the team of both Griffin and Thornley gives that right edge a lot more potency, would like to see Lino use one of them on a short ball near the line, will be very hard to stop. Have we had any news on when Jerry is back?

He features on the video clip of the team training for this weekend - looks fit and sharp.

Re: Donny up next : Tue Apr 02, 2024 3:55 pm  

Without wanting to get carried away, I'm expecting a comfortable win this weekend. I think we'll be too strong on a proper pitch.

Re: Donny up next : Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:05 pm  

[quote="imwakefieldtillidie"]Without wanting to get carried away, I'm expecting a comfortable win this weekend. I think we'll be too strong on a proper pitch.[/quote

You'd think so wouldn't you !

Re: Donny up next : Tue Apr 02, 2024 5:05 pm  

Opinions are brill, however, in the fev match, fevs forwards supported the ball carrier & interposed with each other far more than we did. But I accept. that we lasted longer than Fev, from 70 mins !
The next match on a decent pitch will show if we can play more expansive ?

Re: Donny up next : Tue Apr 02, 2024 5:39 pm  

Start@1873 wrote:

Opinions are brill, however, in the fev match, fevs forwards supported the ball carrier & interposed with each other far more than we did. But I accept. that we lasted longer than Fev, from 70 mins !
The next match on a decent pitch will show if we can play more expansive ?

The last paragraph is the crucial one.
I honestly think we will get better playing on a rugby pitch.

Re: Donny up next : Tue Apr 02, 2024 5:57 pm  

Start@1873 wrote:

Opinions are brill, however, in the fev match, fevs forwards supported the ball carrier & interposed with each other far more than we did. But I accept. that we lasted longer than Fev, from 70 mins !
The next match on a decent pitch will show if we can play more expansive ?

Absolutely we can play much better. I didn’t think trinity were playing anywhere near their capability vs Fev, we will hugely improve as the season progresses imo.

I disagree about Fev’s forwards imposing more than ours. It was pretty even however there were some telling battles in the middle which Trinity just about won. Vagana and Springer went at it all game and Vagana came out on top.

Watching the game back on YouTube the result was about right. What held trinity back was ball control and discipline. Fev really only scored because we were caught cold on a tap following a penalty on our line and same again later. The try’s from Fev were not a result at all of Fev’s forwards and supporting the ball carrier.

Let’s not forget this team has 12 or so new signings plus some young lads so they’re still developing combinations and it will improve over the season.

Re: Donny up next : Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:47 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Perhaps some decent weather, rather than incessant rain on a farmers field of a pitch will help with some flowing rugby.
We've played plenty of decent stuff in the drier weather.

We saw a glimpse of that at York in the 1895, I'm taking that as a bench mark performance in the dry.

Re: Donny up next : Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:51 pm  

Just spent 20 mins trying to buy tickets on their website. Won't work so given in for now.