Re: Cats week 2 for Mr Smith : Sun Jun 21, 2015 10:54 am  

JINJER wrote:

I can see where you're coming from, but, I thought a lot of time TS was probing the line hoping to lay the ball off to someone coming through at pace which didn't happen much.

Probably due to the heat. However he has to present a threat to the defence first to try and pull them out of shape for the runners

Re: Cats week 2 for Mr Smith : Sun Jun 21, 2015 9:28 pm  

Positives:
Much better attitude from all the players
Confidence returning
Being right in the game at 70 mins despite being 12 down very early
BSmith clearly having an impact

Negatives:
Still pretty one dimensional
Struggling to make many metres in a lot of our sets
Last tackle kicks frequently very poor still
Too few runners or dummy runners
Some players not good enough even for us we really need 3/4 signings minimum very quickly

Re: Cats week 2 for Mr Smith : Sun Jun 21, 2015 10:17 pm  

Smew wrote:

Probably due to the heat. However he has to present a threat to the defence first to try and pull them out of shape for the runners

But he doesn't really, he has to probe the front of the defence, see a gap and his runners have to run the right lines, he picks them out, hands them the ball and it gives the defenders bags of trouble. Easy.

Re: Cats week 2 for Mr Smith : Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:19 am  

With a free week Im sure Mr Smith can take the next step with the players both team and individual . I would hope a couple of new faces may also be on the way.

Re: Cats week 2 for Mr Smith : Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:31 am  

chissitt wrote:

I would imagine a SL quality centre would be at the top of his list of his replacements, but even with all his supposed contacts, hasn't it occurred to you that there might not be anyone available to us for whatever reasons at this moment in time, just as a matter of interest which centres' would you recommend to Mr Smith to come in and do a better job assuming of course they are available and can be persuaded to come here.

Lee Smith anyone?? Definitely available as he's touting himself around in today's League Express. Is he good enough any more or better than what we have is the question?

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Re: Cats week 2 for Mr Smith : Mon Jun 22, 2015 9:01 am  

Not sure about Lee Smith. He was slowing down before he left for the retirement code so unless he has found a new fitness level over there I would prefer another option.
But he certainly has skills and if that's all we can get it's probably an improvement on Arundal.

Re: Cats week 2 for Mr Smith : Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:06 am  

I would give Lee Smith a go Would it be a record to have 4 Smiths at one time. He can also kick goals and unless we have another option at centre get him .

Re: Cats week 2 for Mr Smith : Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:20 am  

Fordy wrote:

Lee Smith anyone?? Definitely available as he's touting himself around in today's League Express. Is he good enough any more or better than what we have is the question?

Lee Smith is well past his best - yet he's better than anything we have - so yes. Think he'd work well with young Johnstone.

Re: Cats week 2 for Mr Smith : Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:36 am  

That's a good point. I think he would bring Johnstone on no end. The thing about Lee is he can take aa good thump before parting with the ball. Johntone would probably get that extra time and would certainly have more space.

Re: Cats week 2 for Mr Smith : Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:58 am  

Lee Smith would be a good signing at reasonable cost. Be great next to Johnstone.