Re: Opener versus Cas Tigers : Sun Feb 07, 2016 9:46 pm  

rover49 wrote:

Can't believe how easily our forwards were pushed back, the Cas attack made yardage very easily while our attack was just pushed back in the tackle. I thought we were fortunate today, Cas were not that impressive but yet were much the better side in my opinion. I listened to Chester after the game and he seems to think everything is rosy and we played 'well'. If we cannot defend against a lightweight Cas pack, how the hell will we be able to contain much bigger, mobile packs we will be facing very soon.

The Cas pack isn't lightweight at all. Sure they had Massey & Lynch missing but then we can point to our own absentees. I have been, and continue to be a critic of Chester but credit where its due, we matched a decent team today and showed a significant improvement in attitude to defend. Lets have a night off from our worries and pick it up again next Sunday after a typical away day surrender over in Cheshire.

Re: Opener versus Cas Tigers : Sun Feb 07, 2016 10:10 pm  

A full strength Cas against us without Campo and Lunt. If we'd cut out a couple of individual mistakes and we may have won. All in all a fair result against a side who has finished in top 6 for last couple of seasons.

Re: Opener versus Cas Tigers : Sun Feb 07, 2016 10:11 pm  

SirStan wrote:

The Cas pack isn't lightweight at all. Sure they had Massey & Lynch missing but then we can point to our own absentees. I have been, and continue to be a critic of Chester but credit where its due, we matched a decent team today and showed a significant improvement in attitude to defend. Lets have a night off from our worries and pick it up again next Sunday after a typical away day surrender over in Cheshire.

Agree with all this.

Our performance exceeded collectively doomy expectations today and we were a match for a Cas side that played significantly better than us last year.

One major positive is that the result will do wonders for our team confidence going forward and raise optimism that we can achieve something at Warrington next week marginally less painful than the predicted dry bumming.

Re: Opener versus Cas Tigers : Sun Feb 07, 2016 10:12 pm  

Gallanteer wrote:

A full strength Cas against us without Campo and Lunt. If we'd cut out a couple of individual mistakes and we may have won. All in all a fair result against a side who has finished in top 6 for last couple of seasons.

We didn't play against a full strength Cas side though did we.

Re: Opener versus Cas Tigers : Sun Feb 07, 2016 10:18 pm  

Gallanteer wrote:

A full strength Cas against us without Campo and Lunt. If we'd cut out a couple of individual mistakes and we may have won. All in all a fair result against a side who has finished in top 6 for last couple of seasons.

Cas had their first choice spine playing today. As Stan pointed out in the previous post, they were missing Lynch and Massey in the pack.

By contrast, we were missing 5 of our top 13. We had Charlie at FB, Lawler starting at hooker in SL for the first time and Greenwood at LF for just 7 minutes.

Re: Opener versus Cas Tigers : Sun Feb 07, 2016 10:20 pm  

We should have been in the clear by half time, but we weren't because our completion rate was about thirty seven per cent

Most of the first half was played in Cas's half but we endeavoured to wang the ball into touch or just drop it.

Playing in wind and rain, the golden rule is to control the football and compete your sets, we did neither.

Cas were pretty poor over the eighty, but were distinctly better in contact.

Cockayne is not the answer at Fullback I don't know who is, he still does not understand or know how to take a high ball under no pressure, you turn your body to the side, and if you don't catch it cleanly it goes behind you. What you absolutely do not do is front up to it like a hooker showing off her tits. He did do well for Mantomato's second try.

I thought Lawler went really well, made a great break,in the second half but does need to be able to up his speed of distribution at this level.

Donaldson was a deserved mom, puts 100% into everything he does. Decent larker.

Minns was badly at fault and schooled for both of Webster's tries, although, I have to ask where was Horne for the second, it's his job to take Minns under his wing, I don't think he did that today.

Mantomato's conversion was probably the best I have ever seen given the conditions and context of the match.

Re: Opener versus Cas Tigers : Sun Feb 07, 2016 11:01 pm  

It wasn't great and too many individual errors but the fact they beat us at home last season and not being at full strength yet this season, today was slight progress.

Re: Opener versus Cas Tigers : Sun Feb 07, 2016 11:13 pm  

Sandro II Terrorista wrote:

We should have been in the clear by half time, but we weren't because our completion rate was about thirty seven per cent

Most of the first half was played in Cas's half but we endeavoured to wang the ball into touch or just drop it.

Playing in wind and rain, the golden rule is to control the football and compete your sets, we did neither.

Cas were pretty poor over the eighty, but were distinctly better in contact.

Cockayne is not the answer at Fullback I don't know who is, he still does not understand or know how to take a high ball under no pressure, you turn your body to the side, and if you don't catch it cleanly it goes behind you. What you absolutely do not do is front up to it like a hooker showing off her tits. He did do well for Mantomato's second try.

I thought Lawler went really well, made a great break,in the second half but does need to be able to up his speed of distribution at this level.

Donaldson was a deserved mom, puts 100% into everything he does. Decent larker.

Minns was badly at fault and schooled for both of Webster's tries, although, I have to ask where was Horne for the second, it's his job to take Minns under his wing, I don't think he did that today.

Mantomato's conversion was probably the best I have ever seen given the conditions and context of the match.

But did your shirt arrive in time

Re: Opener versus Cas Tigers : Mon Feb 08, 2016 7:27 am  

[quote="Sandro II Terrorista"]We should have been in the clear by half time, but we weren't because our completion rate was about thirty seven per cent

Most of the first half was played in Cas's half but we endeavoured to wang the ball into touch or just drop it.

Playing in wind and rain, the golden rule is to control the football and compete your sets, we did neither.

Cas were pretty poor over the eighty, but were distinctly better in contact.

Cockayne is not the answer at Fullback I don't know who is, he still does not understand or know how to take a high ball under no pressure, you turn your body to the side, and if you don't catch it cleanly it goes behind you. What you absolutely do not do is front up to it like a hooker showing off her tits. He did do well for Mantomato's second try.

Oh I hate this tablet......pressed the quote and submit button at the same time and oh bo##ocks.

Re: Opener versus Cas Tigers : Mon Feb 08, 2016 7:31 am  

Sandro II Terrorista wrote:

We should have been in the clear by half time, but we weren't because our completion rate was about thirty seven per cent

Most of the first half was played in Cas's half but we endeavoured to wang the ball into touch or just drop it.

Playing in wind and rain, the golden rule is to control the football and compete your sets, we did neither.

Cas were pretty poor over the eighty, but were distinctly better in contact.

Cockayne is not the answer at Fullback I don't know who is, he still does not understand or know how to take a high ball under no pressure, you turn your body to the side, and if you don't catch it cleanly it goes behind you. What you absolutely do not do is front up to it like a hooker showing off her tits. He did do well for Mantomato's second try.

I thought Lawler went really well, made a great break,in the second half but does need to be able to up his speed of distribution at this level.

Donaldson was a deserved mom, puts 100% into everything he does. Decent larker.

Minns was badly at fault and schooled for both of Webster's tries, although, I have to ask where was Horne for the second, it's his job to take Minns under his wing, I don't think he did that today.

Mantomato's conversion was probably the best I have ever seen given the conditions and context of the match.

At a second look it was Kelly who missed Webster twice. From the scrum Minns took Dorn on the overlap leaving Kelly to deal with Webster. I thought Minns defended ok.