Re: On to Huddersfield : Sun Apr 16, 2023 9:40 am  

mwindass wrote:

Bet Brown is dropped. Get the feeling Smith isn't that into him. Also his efforts for one of the Leeds tries was abysmal

Only made 4 carries all game aswell. Not sure the situation when he was on the pitch. Maybe we didn't have much of the ball at that time? But even still, 4 carries is a poor effort and shows a lack of willingness to work.

Re: On to Huddersfield : Sun Apr 16, 2023 9:42 am  

As Beith BrightRed alluded to, Connor will rip us apart no matter what squad we put out. He was always great against poop opposition.

Re: On to Huddersfield : Sun Apr 16, 2023 9:44 am  

UllFC wrote:

And maybe Smith is correct, this 'small but he's a Hull lad who tries hard' thing hasnt worked, see also Fash who is getting found out now.

Yeah I agree, not saying he should have a right to be playing. I hope he sorts himself out, he's still a baby in prop terms. He got hooked against Leigh and has been in and out all season.

The only down side it it probably means Jane gets brought back in, unless Smith goes with Gardiner

Re: On to Huddersfield : Sun Apr 16, 2023 9:46 am  

UllFC wrote:

Id bin Joe altogether hasnt shown a single thing for almost a year now. Balmforth is the future.

Id agree with the calls to move Hoy to the halves, gives him more ball in hand and he threw some good passes against Cas (during that 1st half that im starting to think was just a dream)

Balmforth needs to play pretty soon for me. All we've heard since signing him is how good he has potentially to be. Think he's one of the OOC players so unless we give him a chance I can't see him wanting to stay past this year. Need to see what he's actually made of before we potentially lose him.

Re: On to Huddersfield : Sun Apr 16, 2023 10:07 am  

Brown will no doubt be another who goes to Rovers and see his career go from strength to strength.
Not just him and Staveley they are after but Harman Medforth too im led to believe.

Re: On to Huddersfield : Sun Apr 16, 2023 10:25 am  

RockNRolla wrote:

Brown will no doubt be another who goes to Rovers and see his career go from strength to strength.
Not just him and Staveley they are after but Harman Medforth too im led to believe.

Cant see it, he's 23 soon this is as big as he 's going to get physically, and size certainly does matter in SL.

Re: On to Huddersfield : Sun Apr 16, 2023 10:34 am  

RockNRolla wrote:

Brown will no doubt be another who goes to Rovers and see his career go from strength to strength.
Not just him and Staveley they are after but Harman Medforth too im led to believe.

Youth is the only positive at the moment, we start to lose them, we may as well give us. They aren't going to stay if they don't get a chance or we don't pay them though.

Re: On to Huddersfield : Sun Apr 16, 2023 10:37 am  

The issue with Connor at Hull, was that he was our threat, so stop him you stopped Hull, Hudds have other threats, Pryce and Tui L (can't spell his name), will miss Levi at hooker though, he won them the game against us last season.

[Chris71]

Re: On to Huddersfield : Sun Apr 16, 2023 11:43 am  

UllFC wrote:

mwindass wrote:

Bet Brown is dropped. Get the feeling Smith isn't that into him. Also his efforts for one of the Leeds tries was abysmal

And maybe Smith is correct, this 'small but he's a Hull lad who tries hard' thing hasnt worked, see also Fash who is getting found out now.

That's been an issue since 2018 though that our forwards just aren't given enough ball as we seem to miss them out when the ball gets played and end up with centres and wingers trying to gain the yardage. We only seem to see us use the forwards very sporadically and not sure that's down to us having Houghton as the dummy half for the majority of the time or simply how we set out to play?

Brown is a better option than Evans and currently I don't really see any real option to drop Brown unless TS plays Fash as a front rower with Cator at 13 or brings Gardiner in again.

Re: On to Huddersfield : Sun Apr 16, 2023 1:55 pm  

Defeat number 8 and counting.