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Re: Whino's up next : Thu Mar 03, 2022 10:57 pm  

cheshirecat57 wrote:

Wrong again Whitbread played one day you'l get something right

Whatever makes you feel good about yourself. The point is still the same.

Re: Whino's up next : Thu Mar 03, 2022 11:09 pm  

PopTart wrote:

Pitts and Batch in the centres!

Pretty much the reason we were in disarray on the edges in defence. Had we 2 centres tonight it would have been much closer.

Re: Whino's up next : Thu Mar 03, 2022 11:11 pm  

I thought we looked really lightweight in the forwards until Fifita and Battye came on, but the game was as good as gone by then. Suppose it didn't help having to play two forwards in the centres.

Re: Whino's up next : Thu Mar 03, 2022 11:24 pm  

King Street Cat wrote:

I thought we looked really lightweight in the forwards until Fifita and Battye came on, but the game was as good as gone by then. Suppose it didn't help having to play two forwards in the centres.

I really like Whitbread but to me he looks like a 13 more than a prop. Has a good pair of hands on him from what I’ve seen.

I still think we are one big beast of a prop short.

Whitbread looks like a 13 all day for me. Has a good pair of hands and I’d like to see him play there next week with Crowther.

Murphy was the victim of some early nerves and having a forward as your centre partner on your debut isn’t the best and the defence on edges was constantly stretched and numbered up wrong.

Thought the second half Murphy was much better though.

Full focus on Toulouse to get the season going. Still early days and a win next week is exactly what’s needed.

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Re: Whino's up next : Thu Mar 03, 2022 11:26 pm  

Trojan Horse wrote:

Pretty much the reason we were in disarray on the edges in defence. Had we 2 centres tonight it would have been much closer.

And losing Miller after 5 minutes.
So we had a hooker at Half back where he hasn't been training and a hooker that had to play 80 minutes.

Re: Whino's up next : Thu Mar 03, 2022 11:31 pm  

FIL wrote:

I take it you mean Johnstone ??

No he means his mate Boris

Re: Whino's up next : Thu Mar 03, 2022 11:58 pm  

chissitt wrote:

No he means his mate Boris

I think you need to take sometime to sit down in a comfy chair and reevaluate what you actually contribute to the betterment of your fellow man/woman because currently my suggestion would be to just stay in the comfy chair and don’t associate with others. I will not comment further because I know you like to get threads blocked by either suddenly making irrelevant posts usually backing de Pfeffel.

Re: Whino's up next : Fri Mar 04, 2022 12:40 am  

Adam_Harrison9 wrote:

Why? We haven't smahsed a team up the middle for as long as I can remember. Even under Agar our strengths was our creativity of the half backs and the distributions to the edges. Same with the first seasons of Chester. We've never "smashed" anyone up the middle for the last 8 seasons.

Quoting myself as I must apologise. i was meant to quote Poptart's comment "should (sic) have smashed them up the middle". And that's what this was in response to.

Re: Whino's up next : Fri Mar 04, 2022 12:52 am  

Trojan Horse wrote:

Pretty much the reason we were in disarray on the edges in defence. Had we 2 centres tonight it would have been much closer.

No it wasn't. The reason we were in disrray is because our defence from the middles was lazy and ineffective. That's why they constantly had numbers on the edges.

Re: Whino's up next : Fri Mar 04, 2022 2:02 am  

The problem was not defence in the middle but our lack of eligible players playing in their correct positions. It is possible to replace a centre with a second row part way through a game but not starting with two.
It was obvious they would tire but it was also clear that we had no one to substitute them with.
We will be without Miller next week, let us hope we have some coming back,