Re: Hudds challenge cup : Sat Apr 09, 2022 10:13 pm  

bonaire wrote:

Just look at Leeds.Two top class halves

What on earth?!

Leeds halves are probably the main reason they are so terrible.

Re: Hudds challenge cup : Sun Apr 10, 2022 1:41 am  

disappointing performance yesterday..
totally outmuscled by a huddersfield pack, who ran direct, we were the opposite .
i felt our bench selection was questionable , excluding Evans, the other 3 offer no size,especially JJ.
Had we selected Grub, Fash, Evans & Bowden, imo, that has a better balance ,

individual errors cost us dearly again ,Griffin last week with a loose carry ,this week , a scruffy ptb, then another loose carry. Satae looks unfit, only lasted 10 minutes in his 2nd spell.

we go again ......

Re: Hudds challenge cup : Sun Apr 10, 2022 3:02 am  

So called "Big time" players on big time money bottling it again

Said it for ages... another big game Connor is anonymous

Dave Chris noticed yet lads....?

"Houghton best hooker in the league" to our fans

Hes never been close to a England call up cause he's bang average

Still we'll win a Derby next week

Or maybe we'll start realising winnng trophys is better than beating the minnows across the road

Re: Hudds challenge cup : Sun Apr 10, 2022 4:29 am  

There'll be no, new, shiny Tottenham stadium for us to visit in Londinium.
Such is life.
Well, it'd cost a small fortune in, travel, hotels and spendies.
Would only have got p!sshe'd all weekend.
Missed a full round of NRL.
And probably got our @rses handed to us cos we ain't very good.
Silver linings and all that.......................

Re: Hudds challenge cup : Sun Apr 10, 2022 4:54 am  

Why was Lane dropped ? BH said ‘there’s things he needs to work on’ …… not the only one is he Brett ?!

Whilst everyone is saying ‘ahh well not good enough on the day’ etc spare a thought for Adam Pearson. A cup final would have been a fantastic income generator, he must be fuming, gutted, wondering what the hell is going on ?!

Re: Hudds challenge cup : Sun Apr 10, 2022 5:37 am  

I saw Uncle Peter (Gentle) yesterday morning, sat up in the co-pilot seat, next to Anthony 'Hook' Griffin at Accor Stadium for the Bunnies/Saints game, and it got me musing.
For all Lee's faults, our little run of silverware success in 16/17, seemed an age ago. There was a steely determination, hunger, desire and even anxiety to win us something that we all craved so badly.
I didn't get the same vibe under PG and I'm not getting it from Brett Hodgson, although I doubt it's through lack of wanting.
Maybe you need to know the city, the people, the history?
A leader on the pitch is also massive.
Kearney or Ellis-esque.

Re: Hudds challenge cup : Sun Apr 10, 2022 6:37 am  

Unfortunately from 2018 onwards we didn't have much steely determination, hunger or desire from Radfords team.

We hardly picked up any key injuries in 16/17 too.

Eventually the club became stale under Radford with the majority of the big earning squad members contracted until the end of this season. So we haven't had much wiggle room to bring the right players in.

Re: Hudds challenge cup : Sun Apr 10, 2022 6:42 am  

WIZEB wrote:

I saw Uncle Peter (Gentle) yesterday morning, sat up in the co-pilot seat, next to Anthony 'Hook' Griffin at Accor Stadium for the Bunnies/Saints game, and it got me musing.
For all Lee's faults, our little run of silverware success in 16/17, seemed an age ago. There was a steely determination, hunger, desire and even anxiety to win us something that we all craved so badly.
I didn't get the same vibe under PG and I'm not getting it from Brett Hodgson, although I doubt it's through lack of wanting.
Maybe you need to know the city, the people, the history?
A leader on the pitch is also massive.
Kearney or Ellis-esque.

In 16/17 we had a better squad and very few injuries. The pack was top notch and the players in it at peak form - Taylor, Houghton, Watts, Mini, Sika, Ellis - four out of this six made the SL Dream team in 2016 and Bowden/Green were really solid interchanges. This provided that platform for Shaul and Fonua (also Dream Team) and Sneyd. Teams outside the Big Four need some level of luck to achieve stuff and maybe having a fit squad and a combo of quality players in their pomp with some very experienced ones recognising a last hurrah coming up was ours. To deliver consistently though you need big £ invested in infrastructure IMO - environment, youth pipeline, off field, and most clubs don't have that hence the stranglehold of Saints/Wigan/Leeds on the SL title for years.

Re: Hudds challenge cup : Sun Apr 10, 2022 6:54 am  

Mrs Barista wrote:

In 16/17 we had a better squad and very few injuries. The pack was top notch and the players in it at peak form - Taylor, Houghton, Watts, Mini, Sika, Ellis - four out of this six made the SL Dream team in 2016 and Bowden/Green were really solid interchanges. This provided that platform for Shaul and Fonua (also Dream Team) and Sneyd. Teams outside the Big Four need some level of luck to achieve stuff and maybe having a fit squad and a combo of quality players in their pomp with some very experienced ones recognising a last hurrah coming up was ours. To deliver consistently though you need big £ invested in infrastructure IMO - environment, youth pipeline, off field, and most clubs don't have that hence the stranglehold of Saints/Wigan/Leeds on the SL title for years.

Halcyon days indeed. (> lets out a nostalgic sigh <)

Re: Hudds challenge cup : Sun Apr 10, 2022 6:59 am  

Hodgson didn't sound happy, let's see use of the squad, drop the under performers.

Swift out for Wynne.
Vuli out for Carlos if fit.
Need more from Griffin, Gale and Satae.
Lane in for Johnstone

Has to start Lovodua at 9, get structured and organised, get the props working, start Evans who looked hungry if we have too and bring Satae onto the bench.

No intensity yesterday