[Kosh]

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:22 am  

fc baldy wrote:

Thorman ran a bit more last night and set up 2 trys...so looking good there.

If we are doing that after a dozen matches then i would be worried...even Sts and Leeds arent firing yet as we are only 4 games in........but 4/4 and attack room for improvement.....that will do for me.

Oh aye - I won't be pushing the panic button or anything like that. Would just be nice to have a comfortable win for a change.

Re: Turning pressure into points : Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:30 am  

Jake the Peg wrote:

A good win last night but far too close on the scoreboard for my liking. The territorial and posession advantage we had in the 1st half should have seen us 20 points in front by half time. We still look too easy to defend against in the opposition 20 and struggle to unlock defences without a kick. We have 2 excellent runners in Mau and Tickle but we're not using them effectively near the line. Hopefully Agar and Sharp are looking at it but we don't really look much better close to the line than we have for the last 2 or 3 seasons

I agree that we should have won the game by a bigger margin, but disagree with the point I have highlighted in bold.

We are by no means the finished article, but I think we look far more dangerous with the ball in hand, and last night I thought we looked threatening every time we got near the shudds 20. We came up with several plays straight from the scrum when deep in their territory, and Radford should really have scored. There were two occasions when we managed to ship the ball out wide to Calderwood, and had he been deeper, he could have taken greater advantage of the overlap and again possibly come up with a score or two. Berrigan always looks dangerous when close to the opposition line, and a few better timed runs from the second rowers will see points produced. Also, Moa went very close, and on first impressions looks like he could be used as a battering ram when close to the line.

Got to say as well that I think two shudds tries were questionable. Briscoe was clearly hit whilst in the air by a player not playing at the ball for the first try. And their first try of the second half was forward from Hodgson (the ginger one) imo.

Re: Turning pressure into points : Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:36 am  

Jake the Peg wrote:

A good win last night but far too close on the scoreboard for my liking. The territorial and posession advantage we had in the 1st half should have seen us 20 points in front by half time. We still look too easy to defend against in the opposition 20 and struggle to unlock defences without a kick. We have 2 excellent runners in Mau and Tickle but we're not using them effectively near the line. Hopefully Agar and Sharp are looking at it but we don't really look much better close to the line than we have for the last 2 or 3 seasons

Berrigan made an excellent point that its only a handful of games that he, Thorman and Horne have all played together. Im confident that they will gel and we will start to really hammer certain teams, its good to be winning games when they have a minimal understanding of each others games currently.