Re: Huddersfield (part 2) Magic weekend : Sun May 20, 2018 7:20 pm  

Agree about other players given a chance.Think the thing that is not helping Lyne and Tupu is slow ball.So no Arundel in Centre for me.Put Arundel in 2nd row with Batch nothing to lose

Re: Huddersfield (part 2) Magic weekend : Mon May 21, 2018 6:18 am  

I have been saying all year that our attack inside ops 20 is terrible - it was just getting masked by the very close wins we were having,'

its coming to a head now because now we are not winning either...

we scored lucky tries really this week as well -

Re: Huddersfield (part 2) Magic weekend : Mon May 21, 2018 7:03 am  

Not quite sure of the full story on Finn regarding injury etc but, he's just not doing it at the moment.
We know that he's not the quickest but, he is/was our organiser but, it simply isnt happening.

Whilst Ashurts had an excellent game and you cant deny him his try, the score only comes because our halves just aren't in control of the game and he tries a speculative kick.

We were the better side for 50 minutes yesterday and there was some improvement on last week but, Huddersfield are ordinary at best and with Catalan and Huddersfield improving, we are already in a fight to avoid the bottom 4.

Widnes is our first "must win" of the season and pressure is starting to build on the players, coach and club.

Re: Huddersfield (part 2) Magic weekend : Mon May 21, 2018 8:28 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Not quite sure of the full story on Finn regarding injury etc but, he's just not doing it at the moment.
We know that he's not the quickest but, he is/was our organiser but, it simply isnt happening.

Whilst Ashurts had an excellent game and you cant deny him his try, the score only comes because our halves just aren't in control of the game and he tries a speculative kick.

We were the better side for 50 minutes yesterday and there was some improvement on last week but, Huddersfield are ordinary at best and with Catalan and Huddersfield improving, we are already in a fight to avoid the bottom 4.

Widnes is our first "must win" of the season and pressure is starting to build on the players, coach and club.

for me the problem has been the half backs all season. Miller blows hot and cold and now Finn seems to have lost form, so we apparently drop a winger and full back.

Re: Huddersfield (part 2) Magic weekend : Mon May 21, 2018 8:29 am  

It's just a good job we got points on the board early on in the season otherwise we'd be well down in the bottom 4 now.

Re: Huddersfield (part 2) Magic weekend : Mon May 21, 2018 9:35 am  

That was pretty terrible - and if Kruise Leeming wasn't as thick as mince, we'd have lost by a fair bit more.

With a few notable exceptions, it was a dreadful team performance; Ashurt was a good as ever, and Pauli and Big Dave tried hard - but Finn, Tupou, BJB, Lynn, MCB and Kirmond were awful. I can't work out if Hampshire is adding anything, and Miller has moments, but he's either doing too much, or not enough - either way, it's not working.

I've been fairly sanguine about losing to teams that are self-evidently better than us - but that Shudds team are bang average, and losing two on the bounce is really poor. A very downbeat end to a weekend that was distinctly short on 'Magic.'

Re: Huddersfield (part 2) Magic weekend : Mon May 21, 2018 9:58 am  

It also puts to bed the myth that it will all be fine when the sun comes out and pitches firm up. Well It couldn’t have been much better conditions yesterday and it was fine the week before as well. In fact when Salford beat us the conditions were good also. Maybe we just are massively under achieving. Or not that good.

Re: Huddersfield (part 2) Magic weekend : Mon May 21, 2018 10:00 am  

Trinity1315 wrote:

for me the problem has been the half backs all season. Miller blows hot and cold and now Finn seems to have lost form, so we apparently drop a winger and full back.

Miller is a one excellent, match-winning game in six kind of player. He’ll then bang average for four with a headless chicken one thrown in somewhere as well. Thats why he plays for us and not a top team or in the NRL.

Re: Huddersfield (part 2) Magic weekend : Mon May 21, 2018 10:17 am  

Tricky2309 wrote:

Why is Johnstone dropped?

I have been a defender of Finn but too many poor last tackle options, too slow and weak in defence and not creating much.

He should be leading the last tackle plays and stopping us getting caught in possession.

Final point Chester has to be kidding with that post match interview. I am not in the get him out camp but if he doesn’t see anything wrong how on earth are the players going to improve

Chester stated its the worst 30 minutes we've played.
Could of sworn he was in the dugout at Salford.

Re: Huddersfield (part 2) Magic weekend : Mon May 21, 2018 10:33 am  

bren2k wrote:

That was pretty terrible - and if Kruise Leeming wasn't as thick as mince, we'd have lost by a fair bit more.

With a few notable exceptions, it was a dreadful team performance; Ashurt was a good as ever, and Pauli and Big Dave tried hard - but Finn, Tupou, BJB, Lynn, MCB and Kirmond were awful. I can't work out if Hampshire is adding anything, and Miller has moments, but he's either doing too much, or not enough - either way, it's not working.

I've been fairly sanguine about losing to teams that are self-evidently better than us - but that Shudds team are bang average, and losing two on the bounce is really poor. A very downbeat end to a weekend that was distinctly short on 'Magic.'

I think that was Bishops worst game this year, despite scoring 2. I don't think it's fair to give Tupou or MCB any grief, we hardly sent the ball down that side - pathetic attempt to score in the corner from MCB though...