Re: Chester must go now : Mon Aug 24, 2020 12:43 pm  

charlie wrote:

Could argue he shouldn't have been playing in the first place after he went in with the knees last week.

I was referring to the first game and yes, he was at it again on Saturday.
Pitts was right to get stuck into him, although, his timing wasn't great, as we were in the ascendency at the time.

He is just an (ex) Wigan grub, and was allowed to do what the hell he wanted for most of the 2 games.

I wish we had a couple of similar players.

Re: Chester must go now : Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:19 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

I was referring to the first game and yes, he was at it again on Saturday.
Pitts was right to get stuck into him, although, his timing wasn't great, as we were in the ascendency at the time.

He is just an (ex) Wigan grub, and was allowed to do what the hell he wanted for most of the 2 games.

I wish we had a couple of similar players.

We did and he would have smashed the grub, but he was an absolute loon off the pitch.

Agree 100% that we were bullied off the park and our big men were pretty feeble. However remember this, we moan like chuff when players get booked and call them penalty machines, in fact Pitts is getting some stick for manning up. So those demanding we toughen up then fine but remember the down side before you get on their backs, you can’t have it both ways!

Other teams don’t get away with it as we seem to think, it’s part of their game and they know how to deal with the fallout, we don’t we go to pieces because our forwards don’t defend their own penalties. You can get away with almost any penalties if you’re willing to defend as a unit.

Re: Chester must go now : Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:55 pm  

1315trinity wrote:

I think I would make Pitts Captain as well for the same reason and I also agree with you about Hampshire.
I know Walker didn't cover himself in glory against Catalans but he's never really had a chance to settle at FB so I would continue with him there, seeing as my preferred FB by a mile (MJ) will never claim the position - it seems.
But MJ is far too good to leave out so he would be at 6 and Milky at 7 for me.
Whatever else he is, MJ is not a winger and I really didn't understand that call.

Walker played all of last season for London at fullback and whatever games he started for us this year had been at fullback. And I have yet to see him offer anything more than either Max or Rocky do at that position, other than maybe faster than Max and better under the high ball than Rocky.

The signing of Walker is another example of Chester trusting another club’s academy product than ours. Max has been around the first team for nearly 5 years now and if anything other than the first year where the other fullback was either Craig Hall or BJB, he hasn’t had a fair run at FB.

Take 2017 for example. Salford away in the league, Max came in for Grix, had a stormer then got dropped the following week.

Re: Chester must go now : Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:37 pm  

It would seem that the SKY and BBC commentary teams see Mcilorum as some sort of "character" a "bit of a lad" sort of thing and not the inherent nasty player that he is and was all the time that he was at Wigan. They seemed to treat his thuggery as a bit of a joke. No wonder Jay Pitts lost his rag.A typical Wane product, and rightly deserves the "Grub" tag that he's acquired

Re: Chester must go now : Tue Aug 25, 2020 7:06 am  

[quote="Redscat"]It would seem that the SKY and BBC commentary teams see Mcilorum as some sort of "character" a "bit of a lad" sort of thing and not the inherent nasty player that he is and was all the time that he was at Wigan. They seemed to treat his thuggery as a bit of a joke. No wonder Jay Pitts lost his rag.A typical Wane product, and rightly deserves the "Grub" tag that he's acquired[

Sky team

McDermott - ex Wigan
Clarke - ex Wigan
O’Connell - ex Wigan
Carney - ex Wigan

There is a pattern here, just can’t work out what it is

That said it was the BBC last week, can’t even remember who they are.

Re: Chester must go now : Tue Aug 25, 2020 7:19 am  

[quote="vastman"]
Johnathan Davies
John Wilkins
Jamie Jones Buchanan
Robbie Paul, sorry Hunter Paul

[PopTart]

Re: Chester must go now : Tue Aug 25, 2020 9:18 am  

[quote="vastman"]

Not Wigan. So no pattern really.

Re: Chester must go now : Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:24 am  

[quote="PopTart"]
As ever you miss the point by a mile. The Sky team is clearly Wigan, with me so far? It’s the SKY team who started building the grub up, that’s what Redcat meant I suspect. I was then pointing out that the BBC lot did the same and they are not ex Wigan. Hence the wink as I can’t explain why the grub seems to have such a fan club.

Re: Chester must go now : Tue Aug 25, 2020 1:01 pm  

I don't think there's any difference between McCllorum Wilkins and Buchanan Jones when it comes to snide assaults on players, probably a select mutual appreciation society.

Re: Chester must go now : Tue Aug 25, 2020 1:27 pm  

little wayne69 wrote:

I don't think there's any difference between McCllorum Wilkins and Buchanan Jones when it comes to snide assaults on players, probably a select mutual appreciation society.

Can't agree, McCilorum has been in a class of his own since Gareth Hock retired.