[PopTart]

Re: All Time Superleague 13 : Sat Feb 27, 2021 4:43 pm  

Jesper_Parnevik wrote:

I’m not sure I can agree on this one PopTart. I think we were on the end of some high scoring games in 2012 when Mathers was at the back and conceded less points in 2013 when Mathers missed a bit of the season and L.Smith played at FB. That’s not to say Mathers wasn’t good for us. I think his link up play with T.Smith and Sykes in attack was great. 2009 was statistically our best defensive season and it was Blaymire at the back then. I always felt most confident defensively when Blaymire was at the back. I’ve been watching some old games recently and you forget how good that 2009 team were.

I'm happy to concede that. It was my memory of Mathers but I didn't check the stars
I liked Blaymire.
I think I need to go watch some old games to validate like you.

Re: All Time Superleague 13 : Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:19 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I'm happy to concede that. It was my memory of Mathers but I didn't check the stars
I liked Blaymire.
I think I need to go watch some old games to validate like you.

In fairness though the forwards were more defensively sound in 2009 which probably helped Blaymire. Mathers was a good talker though and in his defence he might have been making the right calls. It could have been his mates letting him down.

Such a shame 2009 ended like it did with that poor performance in the play off game. I think we had a really balanced team that year and I felt confident of a win almost every week other than Saints/Leeds/Wigan. I think 2009 gets forgotten a fair bit but looking at the table that year it’s up there with 2017.

Although we’ve never really had any superstar FBs we have had pretty consistent FBs. I’m hoping Jowitt can really breakout this year as I think the potential is there.

Here’s to a good 2021! Hopefully some of the current squad lay claim to their place in the all time 13!

Re: All Time Superleague 13 : Sun Feb 28, 2021 9:20 pm  

imwakefieldtillidie wrote:

I actually thought Smith was underrated for much of his first spell, and got a lot of unwarranted stick from fans. It wasn’t until he’d gone we realised what we had. His second spell was nothing special. The difference between the two for me was that whilst Smith had a fantastic rugby brain, he needed the players around him to play their part, whereas Brough could create for himself and win you a game on his own. I’ve always felt that fans have judged our half backs since by his standard, leaving us feeling let down because they’re not at that level.

I can't remember who half the other teams' half backs even were, but I just remember feeling at the time like we had one of, if not the best scrum half in the league when we had Brough.