Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Sun Feb 25, 2018 6:58 pm  

The only negative today was the 50p a try it cost me. It's normally a quid but cup games are 50p till quarter final

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Sun Feb 25, 2018 7:35 pm  

roger daly wrote:

The only negative today was the 50p a try it cost me. It's normally a quid but cup games are 50p till quarter final

That's Ok as long as the other side of the deal is his board money doubles every time he doesn't score and £10 from him for every tackle he misses.

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Sun Feb 25, 2018 8:46 pm  

woolly07 wrote:

That's Ok as long as the other side of the deal is his board money doubles every time he doesn't score and £10 from him for every tackle he misses.

Well I'm hoping his board money doubles,but hoping I don't find out if you know what I mean

On a serious note, it was mentioned to me a few times during the game Elliot could break the try scoring record held by Big Les for most tries in a game, a think a couple of times he could of easily received the last pass to make it 7 tries. When I mentioned this to him after the game he said he was glad he didn't, he said Les's record shouldn't be cheapened in the Challenge Cup against a poor team. Which I thought was nice

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Sun Feb 25, 2018 9:30 pm  

I had a flash back to big les when Elliott scored his 5th !!

[Bulliac]

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Mon Feb 26, 2018 10:56 am  

There's not much to say about the (mis)match in truth, is there. Eliot's five must be the highlight and MOM winner, though I confess my personal Moment Of the Match was big Steve Crossley's sidestep as he cut inside the fullback to score behind the sticks in front of the Southbank. Given the mismatch in size he could have just barged him out of the way, but the sidestep was really classy!

[Bullseye]

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Mon Feb 26, 2018 3:51 pm  

Some observations:

I thought we looked like we had more idea in attack - albeit against very poor opposition. Pickersgill and Keyes combined very well and McNally came up well from the back. We don't need any more halfback cover now Chisholm is back since Pickersgill is an able deputy.

I thought Halafihi had a good game and made tons of yards from dummy half. More than Hallas who I think is better suited to loose forward.

Callum Bustin looked the part. I think Kirk will have to work hard to get his place back.

Minchella looked a class apart.

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Mon Feb 26, 2018 3:57 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Some observations:

I thought we looked like we had more idea in attack - albeit against very poor opposition. Pickersgill and Keyes combined very well and McNally came up well from the back. We don't need any more halfback cover now Chisholm is back since Pickersgill is an able deputy.

I thought Halafihi had a good game and made tons of yards from dummy half. More than Hallas who I think is better suited to loose forward.

Callum Bustin looked the part. I think Kirk will have to work hard to get his place back.

Minchella looked a class apart.

[Bulliac]

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:43 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Some observations:

I thought we looked like we had more idea in attack - albeit against very poor opposition. Pickersgill and Keyes combined very well and McNally came up well from the back. We don't need any more halfback cover now Chisholm is back since Pickersgill is an able deputy.

I thought Halafihi had a good game and made tons of yards from dummy half. More than Hallas who I think is better suited to loose forward.

Callum Bustin looked the part. I think Kirk will have to work hard to get his place back.

Minchella looked a class apart.

Not much to disagree with really, agree Hallas has the skills for the job though, for me, Eliot Minchella is our best 13 by a country mile. Obviously JK has to fit in players to get the best overall team so maybe that's his reasoning for not playing him there (I guess no.12 should be a clue..). Watching the game again this afternoon I thought Vila had maybe his best game for the club. As I said earlier, it's hard to say just what we achieved in a game like this but, it's good to know we are capable of putting poor sides to the sword - which is probably the main thing we learned yesterday afternoon.

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:39 pm  

If I had to find one negative about our performance yesterday, I think it would probably be the (lack of) service that our wingers got.
Dalton Grant barely got a sniff yesterday because Gibson either just put his head down and went himself or just ran a line that effectively used up all of Grant's space.
Ryan didn't get any space to run in because he's outside Lee Smith. Hopefully Oakes isn't too far away and Kear actually has the balls to drop the captain.
I'm not convinced about Mikey Wood either. Did big minutes yesterday but failed to make an impression, while our other three props were making breaks for fun.

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Mon Feb 26, 2018 7:08 pm  

Nothus wrote:

Hopefully Oakes isn't too far away and Kear actually has the balls to drop the captain. I'm not convinced about Mikey Wood either. Did big minutes yesterday but failed to make an impression, while our other three props were making breaks for fun.

It's nice that we have options this year