[Wanderer]

Re: London Skolars (Home) - Sunday 11 August 2019 15:00 : Mon Aug 12, 2019 10:32 am  

Double Movement wrote:

Hunslet won at Keighley yesterday 32-10.

We really don't want Oldham to beat Newcastle today!

Rob Nash wrote:

They won't. Oldham are ordinary

Re: London Skolars (Home) - Sunday 11 August 2019 15:00 : Mon Aug 12, 2019 11:19 am  

Plenty more to come Gary!
Plenty more to come Brian!

Re: London Skolars (Home) - Sunday 11 August 2019 15:00 : Mon Aug 12, 2019 11:19 am  

Is he hiding?
Rob where are you?

Re: London Skolars (Home) - Sunday 11 August 2019 15:00 : Mon Aug 12, 2019 12:08 pm  

Penalty count was 3 for the Dons and 7 for London.

, or at lRe: London Skolars (Home) - Sunday 11tAugust 2019 1 : Mon Aug 12, 2019 12:22 pm  

KLD mentions that it is not the coach who makes stupid blunders on the field, but it is the players.
Can't argue with that, however let me mention one incident in the second half when it appears that all of the Don's players and coaches went to sleep, but people in the stand were well aware of and even shouted about with no success.
Their right winger, or at least that's where he stood, got himself injured taking the ball in and was left badly limping.
Everyone could see it, he could hardly walk.
We had the ball at the time for a short spell until he was allowed to limp off.
Not once did we take the ball in against him during that spell.
Who is the spotter in this outfit, where is the chain of command?
Shocking!
Just what is RH there for?

London did plenty of targetting our weaknesses, particularly in the second half.

Re: London Skolars (Home) - Sunday 11 August 2019 15:00 : Mon Aug 12, 2019 12:27 pm  

No disputing it was a pretty dire performances. Really worried about a couple of players who defend on our left !

Re: London Skolars (Home) - Sunday 11 August 2019 15:00 : Mon Aug 12, 2019 12:31 pm  

weighman wrote:

No disputing it was a pretty dire performances. Really worried about a couple of players who defend on our left !

That would be the targeting that I mentioned ... very weak yesterday.

Re: London Skolars (Home) - Sunday 11 August 2019 15:00 : Mon Aug 12, 2019 1:18 pm  

I left when they levelled the score I can't remember being so annoyed at a game for donkeys years. The problem with our left side defence could have been seen by Stevie Wonder. As for some of the comments on Cleggbook - deluded.

Re: London Skolars (Home) - Sunday 11 August 2019 15:00 : Mon Aug 12, 2019 2:19 pm  

Whitehaven have proved this year that all you need in Champ 1 is basic rugby ……………, nothing sparkling or flamboyant just hard running and strong defence.

Countless times this season our game management has been severely lacking.
One minute we are 20 points up and cruising, then we force a pass, make an error and give the opposition impetus.
We are a poor side under pressure and once we start shipping points the writing is on the wall.
Yesterday was a wake up call.

When i saw the squad i was very optimistic as i think bar one or two that was our strongest 17 but twenty minutes in the wheels came off.
I cant fault the boys efforts but better game management must be RH's priority

A great run from Chrimes got us going forward for the drop goal but we need to be smarter from 1 to 17 come the play offs

Re: London Skolars (Home) - Sunday 11 August 2019 15:00 : Mon Aug 12, 2019 3:25 pm  

I think Beryl stood back a bit more this time for the field goal,learning from his absolute gaffe at Fev which cost us the game.
Sorry Beryl but it did!

Let's also remember London missed a kick to probably win it before Chrimes' and Beryl's heroics.

Boy were we shouting 'DROP GOAL!!!'
Louder than 'Attack the winger!' when he was injured.