Re: Miller at loose forward! : Sun May 03, 2015 1:05 pm  

There aren't many teams that have 20 stone 6 foot 4 tall prop forwards although Trinity have lost 10 games on the bounce now and the other teams didn't have huge packs. He'd invested in props who had a reputation for being injury prone such as Paea and Kirke and its back fired as Anderson has also got seriously injured. Paea obviously has a long term chronic knee injury with Webster referring to his current injury surprisingly being on his 'good' knee!

I hope that Anderson, Collis, Hall, Owen and Kirmond are fit to play the next couple of games and this horrendous run of form stops.

Re: Miller at loose forward! : Sun May 03, 2015 3:07 pm  

Looking on the positive side, the last 4 superleague games have been Leeds a Warrington a Wigan h and St Helens a. I don't think anyone would expect us to won those games although we would have hoped to compete better. The next 3 Hull K R a Leighton h and Widnes h don't look quite so daunting so let's stop talking about saving ourselves for the middle eight and start trying to restores one pride. At the beginning of the season we would have said these 3 games were winnable so hopefully players and coach will give 100 percent whatever the injury situation.

Re: Miller at loose forward! : Sun May 03, 2015 4:35 pm  

Big lads mate wrote:

normycat wrote:

It looked small compared to saints.

True plus they are able to rotate their big men to do less minutes,where our forwards don't have the luxury,only a matter of Time before a missed tackle.When you put a 18yr old on against a pack like Saints it's a daunting task,I know he did nothing wrong and made his tackles but he's a bit away from a 80mins second rower which is what you want,ie Danny Washbrook.We havnt got the luxury of strength in depth,like the old Chinese proverb,you fornicate with the tackle you've got .I believe I've seen improvement over the last couple of games,so hopefully a win at HKR. I also might be one of the so called rose tinted glasses wearing fans,but surely it must be better to find positives than depressing yourselfs with negatives how ever hard it is

Websters comments about not having the ball for two sets of ten minutes, is the difference between Saints being able to score 40 at home, they know how to control a game.
In contrast to our home game when being 12-6 up at half time, playing Saints with one fit sub, we weren't prepared to be patient and control the game by making it them rotate their one sub more.
If you are starved of the ball for 20 mins, the dam is going to burst.
I'm still pretty optimistic, it's just the keyboard coaches on here in that have me shaking my head.

Re: Miller at loose forward! : Sun May 03, 2015 4:52 pm  

FickleFingerOfFate wrote:

Websters comments about not having the ball for two sets of ten minutes, is the difference between Saints being able to score 40 at home, they know how to control a game.
In contrast to our home game when being 12-6 up at half time, playing Saints with one fit sub, we weren't prepared to be patient and control the game by making it them rotate their one sub more.
If you are starved of the ball for 20 mins, the dam is going to burst.
I'm still pretty optimistic, it's just the keyboard coaches on here in that have me shaking my head.

No criticism but I find it ironic as your comments could also be considered to be 'keyboard coaching'.

Re: Miller at loose forward! : Sun May 03, 2015 5:09 pm  

FickleFingerOfFate wrote:

Websters comments about not having the ball for two sets of ten minutes, is the difference between Saints being able to score 40 at home, they know how to control a game.
In contrast to our home game when being 12-6 up at half time, playing Saints with one fit sub, we weren't prepared to be patient and control the game by making it them rotate their one sub more.
If you are starved of the ball for 20 mins, the dam is going to burst.
I'm still pretty optimistic, it's just the keyboard coaches on here in that have me shaking my head.

So basically you are agreeing that the coaching and player performances are not up to scratch. You don't need a coaching badge to see we are poorly coached and lack desire you just need to watch us on a regular basis