Ben Reynolds : Sun Apr 08, 2018 6:25 pm  

I have said for a while now, that while I believe Ben to be a player that gives his best, he is not the player to lead us around the park at 6.
Well credit where credit is due.
After watching his last couple of performances and hearing today’s, it now seems he has really stepped up when we need it/him most. He has been solid in defence, consistent with conversions and then really took control in the second half last week in our most important game so far. It sounded like he has again put in a great performance this week.
It’s not a one man show of course as the whole team has stepped up when it looked really dark, but well done Ben Reynolds. Please continue to prove me completely wrong

Re: Ben Reynolds : Sun Apr 08, 2018 6:34 pm  

Vancouver Leyther wrote:

I have said for a while now, that while I believe Ben to be a player that gives his best, he is not the player to lead us around the park at 6.
Well credit where credit is due.
After watching his last couple of performances and hearing today’s, it now seems he has really stepped up when we need it/him most. He has been solid in defence, consistent with conversions and then really took control in the second half last week in our most important game so far. It sounded like he has again put in a great performance this week.
It’s not a one man show of course as the whole team has stepped up when it looked really dark, but well done Ben Reynolds. Please continue to prove me completely wrong

I agree VL, for me Ben was easy the MoM ,although HH,Craig Hall and Hutchy had good games,I've been a Ben critic but today he played well, he can take a leaf out of Hutchies book and attack the line , give the oppo something to worry about, I thought Bodene put in a good shift as well.

Re: Ben Reynolds : Sun Apr 08, 2018 9:40 pm  

Great performance today looks like the players are responding to purtill. Loads put a Great shift in ben was fantastic . Looks like the players are being allowed to be expansive & play more of the cuff

Re: Ben Reynolds : Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:26 pm  

Keep attacking the line Ben. That's the key. Good performance today.

Re: Ben Reynolds : Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:28 pm  

I feel for Ben and hutchy in the respect that table quite easy to keep taking the line on if you have the pace of a Danny McGuire as a half back as the gaps are there and your through.. problem with hutchy and Ben is they aren’t quick enough get through them gaps.. they were both very good again today and aren’t the kind of half’s who will take the line on and break time and time again.. one thing they are is very good with runners running good lines off them ala Borden’s Hansen and hall again n today!! On a seperate note whoeve signed J Thompson should get a life contract for me! The boy is superb! Hard worker strong runner quick good pair of hands the whole lot! How we managed to get him away from Hull is beyond me

Re: Ben Reynolds : Sun Apr 08, 2018 11:15 pm  

oggy123 wrote:

I feel for Ben and hutchy in the respect that table quite easy to keep taking the line on if you have the pace of a Danny McGuire as a half back as the gaps are there and your through.. problem with hutchy and Ben is they aren’t quick enough get through them gaps.. they were both very good again today and aren’t the kind of half’s who will take the line on and break time and time again.. one thing they are is very good with runners running good lines off them ala Borden’s Hansen and hall again n today!! On a seperate note whoeve signed J Thompson should get a life contract for me! The boy is superb! Hard worker strong runner quick good pair of hands the whole lot! How we managed to get him away from Hull is beyond me

Oggy, have you ever spent a week working in Hull?

Re: Ben Reynolds : Mon Apr 09, 2018 6:02 am  

FAir point but the lad oozes super league quality

Re: Ben Reynolds : Mon Apr 09, 2018 8:35 am  

Both Reynolds and Hutchison are improving a lot. I wonder if having a former half back as coach, is responsible for that?

Re: Ben Reynolds : Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:06 pm  

Both half backs benefitting from the fact that there's now more than one player around them moving at a time, which wasn't the case at the start of the season. On the whole, they made the right decisions, can only think of one instance when Reynolds went on his own when he had a big overlap outside.

Kicking game wasn't tested at all yesterday because it was such a dominant performance, didn't see the London game so don't know if they were showing signs of improvement in kicking game then.

Re: Ben Reynolds : Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:31 pm  

Still think both need to improve their kicking game because at the moment from the games iv seen it's been poor,can't remember that many repeat sets compared to other teams and certainly can't remember us getting a 40/20