Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Mon Feb 26, 2018 7:50 pm  

I think Elliots best position is 13. He likes to get his hands on the ball a lot and I think that's how he most effective to the team, obviously we are not reading too much into yesterday. Backing up, anticipating a break and putting himself in a position to finish things off is something which I think he does ok. If he plays the majority of games at 12 he will me more than happy and crack on and give 100%

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Mon Feb 26, 2018 7:51 pm  

Bustin eased my slight worries about our depth in the prop department. He is a unit and it looked like the opposition struggled with him everytime he had the ball. Crossley, Peltier and Bustin are the three main props for me with Kirk, Wood and Davies fighting it out for the fourth spot/providing cover for injuries.

Agree about how fluent we looked in attack. This team has a lot of points in it and I think we are going to enjoy this season. Kear just needs to ensure he keeps them grounded for the more difficult games like York, Keighley etc. There is a big disparity between the top and lower half teams in this league.

Minchella looks like he is going to be the Bentley of the team when it comes to try scoring. Brilliant signing.

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Mon Feb 26, 2018 8:02 pm  

For me the only negative was switching off for their try!

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Mon Feb 26, 2018 8:21 pm  

DrFeelgood wrote:

For me the only negative was switching off for their try!

Did they really switch off?? We tried to have 3 quick penalties and the ref said no, they had 1 right on our line and he let it go.

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Mon Feb 26, 2018 8:56 pm  

And seemed to get in the way of the defenders!

[Bullseye]

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Mon Feb 26, 2018 9:31 pm  

He was stood completely in the way. But apart from that howler he had an ok game.

[Bulliac]

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Tue Feb 27, 2018 11:26 am  

The biggest shame is that when we booed the ref for his decision, it came across as if were booing West Wales, when nothing could be further from the truth. I don't begrudge them their try for a second, much as I disagree with the referee's decision.

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Tue Feb 27, 2018 11:46 am  

Bulliac wrote:

The biggest shame is that when we booed the ref for his decision, it came across as if were booing West Wales, when nothing could be further from the truth. I don't begrudge them their try for a second, much as I disagree with the referee's decision.

Yes I agree and I hope our Welsh friends don't think we were booing their team efforts.

[Bullseye]

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Tue Feb 27, 2018 12:47 pm  

Given that most folk stayed to applaud them off I don't think they were too upset.

Re: Cup: West Wales Raiders (H) : Tue Feb 27, 2018 8:09 pm  

Got to admit I was very pleased West Wales didn@t resort to grubby tactics ala Keighley even when down by a big score. Played some good rugby at times but our defence was a class apart. Agree with everything said about the likes of Hallas, Halafihi and Minchella. And really class from Minchella to say that about not cheapening Les' record even though I was a litte excited he could have broke it! Great performance all in all. McNally did look like he was running in treacle though

Gre