Re: today's game : Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:12 pm  

wildcat13 wrote:

Need a couple of experienced players,morro,rinaldi and korki the only seasoned players.Thought johnson,mariano and lee all showed a bit of promise.Was disappointed with smith but as been said before it was his first game and was rusty and will maybe come good.One thing is for sure it is going to be a long,hard season and need more atmosphere at BV to keep the lads going.

Have to disagree over Lee, some of his passing was awful.

Re: today's game : Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:15 pm  

altofts wildcat wrote:

Anybody know why Paul King didn't play today?

I thought we missed him today.

Apparantly woke up with a swolen ankle which prevented him playing. Thats why Gledhill played 2 games in 2 days.

Re: today's game : Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:18 pm  

bloomers wrote:

Have to disagree over Lee, some of his passing was awful.

Kicking game was ok.Also was trying to do it all himself cos smith was practically non existent.

Re: today's game : Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:24 pm  

Can't fault the effort (although we started the game poorly letting them in in the first set of six), but as has been siad, they had two decent half backs running at the defensive line, with runners coming on at pace and being given the ball after the tackler had been drawn in.

To be fair, running it in hard and looking to draw a man before you pass are pretty basic facets of the game and therefore should be capable of being executed by the players we have. Some of the passing today was woeful.

Smith clearly was rusty and I think it would have been better for him to have had some game time in the reserves and maybe given Harvey a run out.

Only other complaint was, why on earth did we keep kicking early in the tackle count in the first half when we had a bit of pressure in there 25?

Re: today's game : Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:30 pm  

chapster wrote:

one thought.................in hindsight was this the right game to do the 10 quid deal??
Salford as opposed to say wire in a fortnight???
give team 2 more weeks to bed in, bit more of a glamour fixture?

not having a go before im burned at the stake.........

If we'd won 32-6 and the sun had shone then yes it would have been the right game, in hindsight maybe not.

Don't know chappie tbh.

Re: today's game : Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:30 pm  

wildcat13 wrote:

Kicking game was ok.Also was trying to do it all himself cos smith was practically non existent.

I don't doubt he was trying, and I agree over Smith. I just don't see either of them as our answer, and they're in a key position which could make the difference in gelling together a potentially decent team, as today all I saw was a bunch of young lad trying, but in a really patchy and disorganised way. Too much of that, and heads will drop and that potential will be lost.

I'll try my best to support the likes of Lee and Smith, but I can't claim to be optimistic that either of them will flourish into the role. Talking on the way back to the car after the game, the fear is they are Kear utility players, interchangable at 6/7/9/13, or so we are led to believe, but not really good enough. I can understand why we've ended up with stop gaps again, I just really think the one part of the team worth spending on is a proper scrum half.

Re: today's game : Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:45 pm  

Fully agree and we can only support the team on the pitch.A sh is a priority as it has been for 12 months but JK doesn't seem to realise and is overloading with fullbacks and wingers.Think if BJ had been fit today the kicking game and organisation would have been better.

Re: today's game : Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:47 pm  

bloomers wrote:

I'll try my best to support the likes of Lee and Smith, but I can't claim to be optimistic that either of them will flourish into the role.

Smith was poor for two full seasons at Salford he is a one trick pony giving the ball back on the inside ! If your looking for creativity and spark he is not your man. Passenger.

Re: today's game : Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:40 pm  

Smith was as poor as what we have seen week in week out at salford last 2 years,kevin penny wants to give up rl and was a one season wonder at wire 3 years ago,korki has always been a fav of mine and you can tell his heart is with the club,rinaldi and morrison your best players on the park today,thought we handled the conditions far better and like mentioned we are a bigger side than the wildcats,nice to win at your place for once,but wont miss getting wet there again.Good luck for rest of the season and look forward to seeing a few of you coming over to the willows for the last time in the return fixture!

Re: today's game : Sun Feb 27, 2011 10:25 pm  

Sloppy defence early doors allowed Salford to get a good start and left us with work to do. We were well in it at 6-16 and it was annoying to see Korki give a penalty away while in possession on the first tackle on Salford's line! If we could have put more pressure on at that stage with 5 minutes to go to half time, I think we could have gained some momentum for the second half and maybe gone in only 4 or 6 points behind. We kept Salford scoreless for about 15-20 minutes second half but just couldn't keep hold of the ball due to shocking passes and dumb handling errors. Think we missed Paul King in the forwards, anyone know why he didn't play? We were our own worst enemy today and got beat by a team who in my opinion were playing to save their coach.