Re: Today’s match v Salford : Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:37 pm  

Last year we entered a slump after a tough away win in the cup and never recovered (4 wins from 17 remaining games).

Be interesting to see if Sam can get us back to our best.

Re: Today’s match v Salford : Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:07 pm  

The backs always look poor when the pack is second best…

Has Vaughan been found out?
Do Burgess and Vaughan get along?
Is there jealousy that 3 years ago Burgess was an equal to Vaughan, and now he’s his boss?
Is Vaughan half the player for Burgess?

Re: Today’s match v Salford : Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:22 pm  

There’s something not right with Vaughan, no idea what but he’s not himself at all.

The pack was weirdly poor yesterday and the interchanges seemed odd to me.

[Uncle Rico]

Re: Today’s match v Salford : Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:52 pm  

Yes I think that the pack was poor as was the team in general.

Salford deserved the points IMO because they played for and got the game they wanted they effectively did to us what we did to Saints recently.

The game wasn't a forward game at all as Salford wanted, it was scruffy and scrapy as they wanted it, and most importantly the game played out wide where they had the advantage with Lafai and Macdonald

Re: Today’s match v Salford : Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:14 pm  

Vaughan's stats show he was head and shoulders our most effective prop forward with 80m.

Need to be looking at Philbin and Bullock who managed 26.

Re: Today’s match v Salford : Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:21 pm  

All the very best to Hayes who looks to have a giant heart for such a small lad.
We had someone similar in Robbie Burrow.
Hope the lad makes a full recovery as it looked a very bad injury.

Re: Today’s match v Salford : Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:52 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

The backs always look poor when the pack is second best…

Has Vaughan been found out?
Do Burgess and Vaughan get along?
Is there jealousy that 3 years ago Burgess was an equal to Vaughan, and now he’s his boss?
Is Vaughan half the player for Burgess?

O don't think there's much to "find out" with Vaughan. He's hard as nails, is a big unit and he's gonna drive his legs after collision. No fancy trickery with him, he's just a bloody good
prop forward.

Off game for the team, stats say Vaughan was making meters as he does best. He missed 2 games from a ban and then didn't come straight back into the team once he'd served it because we were playing well.

Re: Today’s match v Salford : Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:20 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

The backs always look poor when the pack is second best…

Has Vaughan been found out?
Do Burgess and Vaughan get along?
Is there jealousy that 3 years ago Burgess was an equal to Vaughan, and now he’s his boss?
Is Vaughan half the player for Burgess?

I don't get this rubber ... what's this Vaughan hate thing? It just doesn't make sense.
Mind you I was very impressed with Ormondroyd, Lafai & Macdonald. Ormondroyd & Lafai are aged 32 but Macdonald is 20 and might change our back play a bit.

Re: Today’s match v Salford : Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:47 pm  

Smiffy27 wrote:

I don't get this rubber ... what's this Vaughan hate thing? It just doesn't make sense.
Mind you I was very impressed with Ormondroyd, Lafai & Macdonald. Ormondroyd & Lafai are aged 32 but Macdonald is 20 and might change our back play a bit.

McDonald will be 30 in a couple of weeks time Smiffy.

Re: Today’s match v Salford : Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:34 pm  

We've lost to a decent Salford team as quite a few teams will were up there in top 4 and in semi final of challenge cup which is better than what I expected hopefully a a win against hull Friday