Re: James Ford : Fri May 19, 2023 1:41 pm  

altofts wildcat wrote:

I think you are correct here, I think a lot of our issues in attack are due to how slow we are and that all starts at the PTB where I don't think any of our Hookers are good enough at the moment. Hood is far to slow and so is Kay when it comes to that first Pass, Bowes is the best we have at it but is still not great but does have time to develop.

The problem is our play the balls are too slow, we don’t have a single forward who can win the collision, find his front and give us a quick play the ball!
Not disputing that the quality of our hookers isn’t good enough, with the exception of Bowes who is still young lad, learning the game and has loads of potential

Re: James Ford : Fri May 19, 2023 8:37 pm  

Yep, that attacking issue we've got was definitely all Ford's fault

Re: James Ford : Sat May 20, 2023 12:20 am  

Egg Banjo wrote:

Yep, that attacking issue we've got was definitely all Ford's fault

Jesus wept he only left a couple of days ago. Not saying it WILL improve bit at least give it a week or so. Bloody stupid post

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Re: James Ford : Sat May 20, 2023 7:23 am  

You could tell the players were trying to move the ball more. We scored 2 tries out of doing it and had a long break.
It's just the ball is still moving too slowly.

Re: James Ford : Sat May 20, 2023 7:40 am  

PopTart wrote:

You could tell the players were trying to move the ball more. We scored 2 tries out of doing it and had a long break.
It's just the ball is still moving too slowly.

We were just very lateral and still had no runners to give the ball carrier options. Lam, and to a lesser extent Reynolds, showed us how an effective half back combination should operate. Lam in particular had all the time in the world to decide what to do with the ball and had numerous options with which to use.

Re: James Ford : Sat May 20, 2023 9:40 am  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

We were just very lateral and still had no runners to give the ball carrier options. Lam, and to a lesser extent Reynolds, showed us how an effective half back combination should operate. Lam in particular had all the time in the world to decide what to do with the ball and had numerous options with which to use.

Talking about Reynolds. He’s out of contract and I’d be looking at him as a halfback option for 2024.

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Re: James Ford : Sat May 20, 2023 10:24 am  

Trojan Horse wrote:

Talking about Reynolds. He’s out of contract and I’d be looking at him as a halfback option for 2024.

Has he now been forgiven by all those fans slagging him off when he was here before.
Shows that sometimes you have to stick with young players like Smith and give them time

Re: James Ford : Sat May 20, 2023 10:36 am  

PopTart wrote:

Has he now been forgiven by all those fans slagging him off when he was here before.
Shows that sometimes you have to stick with young players like Smith and give them time

I can’t remember people slagging him off, he only played 6 games and from memory he didn’t start all of them.
If there was criticism I think it was about why we signed him if we weren’t going to give him a fair go

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Re: James Ford : Sat May 20, 2023 10:56 am  

The Avenger wrote:

I can’t remember people slagging him off, he only played 6 games and from memory he didn’t start all of them.
If there was criticism I think it was about why we signed him if we weren’t going to give him a fair go

I do.

But your other bit is exactly the point. A young lad learning shouldn't just be thrown in. Sometimes you buy for the future. Especially with some of our fans.

Re: James Ford : Sat May 20, 2023 11:36 am  

PopTart wrote:

Has he now been forgiven by all those fans slagging him off when he was here before.
Shows that sometimes you have to stick with young players like Smith and give them time

If anything a lot of people were noticing how he and Hampshire were playing well together. But as soon as Brough and Miller were “fit” again…