Re: Rochdale away : Sun Jun 18, 2017 7:23 pm  

mat wrote:

Wasn't one of things mentioned in chalmers meeting that we had only just got a physio and had recently changed the conditioner?. Will take a while before we see any benefit on field.

Quite probably, and in all likelihood the results won't be seen til next year as the whole thing with pre-season is that you can run the guys into the ground in various situations over the week without the need to recover for matchday.

I'm genuinely part of the positive tendency (remember when the PT And NT on here used to be a thing?!!!) I never expected the season to end as anything other than us finishing bottom, and I do see the, potentially, bigger picture for rebuilding the club. But as a matchday fan first and foremost I still struggle not to get frustrated with our team being out-fitnessed by the likes of Rochdale, Dewsbury, etc.

Re: Rochdale away : Sun Jun 18, 2017 10:32 pm  

tackler thommo wrote:

Third game in a row that someone has dropped out in warm -up. Presumably result of wafer thin squad with few replacements to " normal " 17

Who dropped out in the warm up? I missed this.

I got a free ticket today at the last minute so went to the game. Wish I hadn't. Only player I recall not seeing from the named 17 was Mendeika, but I don't remember seeing someone who wasn't named as his replacement? Perhaps I'd lost interest by that point though and consigned myself to the bottom of a pint glass.

Re: Rochdale away : Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:27 am  

At least we've made an improvement in one area - less spelling/grammatical errors on the bulls site write up.

But it could now be written the same for every game - just change the name of the opposition each week.

"Bulls started well and were the dominant side.........despite a phenomenal training session during the week the Bulls were unable to score a single point in the second half..........we'll have to wait another week to get up to zero points in the league table......"

Re: Rochdale away : Mon Jun 19, 2017 6:27 am  

HamsterChops wrote:

Who dropped out in the warm up? I missed this.

I got a free ticket today at the last minute so went to the game. Wish I hadn't. Only player I recall not seeing from the named 17 was Mendeika, but I don't remember seeing someone who wasn't named as his replacement? Perhaps I'd lost interest by that point though and consigned myself to the bottom of a pint glass.

Oledski.

Re: Rochdale away : Mon Jun 19, 2017 6:31 am  

mat wrote:

Wasn't one of things mentioned in chalmers meeting that we had only just got a physio and had recently changed the conditioner?. Will take a while before we see any benefit on field.

Smoke and mirrors. We don't do anything other than train for RL and play against teams that have proper jobs as well as training.

Re: Rochdale away : Mon Jun 19, 2017 7:54 am  

tackler thommo wrote:

Oledski.

Ah I see. It wasn't in the warm up, he dropped out before it. But the point remains at dropping out at short notice, yeah.

That being said, Chapelhow mentioned on Twitter about looking forward to the game something like 24 hours before, and he was supposedly the one that came in for Oledzki, so maybe it was more a case of hoping the opposition would prepare for a player that was never gonna be in the 17 at all. Maybe that's why they also accidentally named 6 loan / dual reg players in the 19 man squad, despite only being allowed to name 5 (then corrected it by saying Hodgson was there, not Chapelhow, only for Chapelhow to then play anyway).

Re: Rochdale away : Mon Jun 19, 2017 10:28 am  

The afternoon turned on one moment. The fisticuffs. Straight after we dropped out (literally and metaphorically), and then missed a tackle (pointed the way to the line). He should have been lined up and smashed. The heads dropped and we never recovered. We were still 2 points up at the point.

The endless changes to the sides mean our attack is disjointed. It appears we cannot make a hole in a defensive line that has done back to back sets. Players are stood still and we have no push especially behind Pelts the one player who appears to make at least half breaks.

Re: Rochdale away : Mon Jun 19, 2017 11:06 am  

SCONE wrote:

The afternoon turned on one moment. The fisticuffs. Straight after we dropped out (literally and metaphorically), and then missed a tackle (pointed the way to the line). He should have been lined up and smashed. The heads dropped and we never recovered. We were still 2 points up at the point.

The endless changes to the sides mean our attack is disjointed. It appears we cannot make a hole in a defensive line that has done back to back sets. Players are stood still and we have no push especially behind Pelts the one player who appears to make at least half breaks.

6 back to back sets. Most on their goal line. Couldn't score.

[Bullseye]

Re: Rochdale away : Mon Jun 19, 2017 11:23 am  

IS this because so many players train with their parent clubs during the week and so don't develop an understanding with the blokes they actually play with at the weekend?

Re: Rochdale away : Mon Jun 19, 2017 1:54 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

IS this because so many players train with their parent clubs during the week and so don't develop an understanding with the blokes they actually play with at the weekend?

The Widnes DR player was in the right centre slot. Most teams generally favour attacking down the left, but we really concentrated our attack down the left.