Re: Thoughts from tonight.. : Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:43 pm  

Steve May wrote:

Not sure. But even if you know one or two people it can still be hard to adjust to a new place.

The players are just people. And they come with all the same baggage and personal stuff that non-players do.

True.

He's also missed pre-season which is a big minus not just for fitness but knowing all the plays. He's also playing at a higher level for the first time in his career.

Lots of hard work and adapting to do - think it will be well into the season before we see him really settle down.

Re: Thoughts from tonight.. : Sat Feb 18, 2017 1:29 pm  

Giantscorpio wrote:

Just said same as GIANT DAZ last night. We always make a mess after a good away win. We promote the home game as good as we can, and when a reasonable crowd turns up, the team always put in a substandard performance, making the future home games an uphill battle to attract extra supporters.

yep happens every time

chance to get off to a good start at home and we blow it with quite a few newcomers, hope they come back next friday but may have missed the chance again now

Re: Thoughts from tonight.. : Sat Feb 18, 2017 8:38 pm  

brearley84 wrote:

yes thought our props of the bench let us down lastnight, wakeman and clough poor

dont get why we played rapira at loose forward!

gaskell looks quality in attack for us joining the line, brierley not so good so far

All can say is after the way Sebastine & Ukuma ran the ball up,the interchange forwards now know what they have to live up to,if they don't put the same effort in they are letting the opposition off the hook.

Rapira didn't look comfortable as the loose man,maybe better off the interchange

A fb joining the line looking so dangerous to the oppositon,how long have we been waiting for this.

Stone needs to keep building Brierley's confidence in terms of decision making,I think RB's capable of getting this right in the long term.

Re: Thoughts from tonight.. : Sat Feb 18, 2017 9:26 pm  

Sheepridge Giant wrote:

All can say is after the way Sebastine & Ukuma ran the ball up,the interchange forwards now know what they have to live up to,if they don't put the same effort in they are letting the opposition off the hook.

Rapira didn't look comfortable as the loose man,maybe better off the interchange

A fb joining the line looking so dangerous to the oppositon,how long have we been waiting for this.

Stone needs to keep building Brierley's confidence in terms of decision making,I think RB's capable of getting this right in the long term.

Yo Paulie...bang on that lad, Seb and Ukuma have set the standard now, can the others match it ?? they will need to !!

Re: Thoughts from tonight.. : Sat Feb 18, 2017 9:36 pm  

GIANT DAZ wrote:

Yo Paulie...bang on that lad, Seb and Ukuma have set the standard now, can the others match it ?? they will need to !!

Yo Daz b me say u is gangsta with that call b - safe an summa dat b - touch.

Re: Thoughts from tonight.. : Sat Feb 18, 2017 9:55 pm  

Sheepridge Giant wrote:

Yo Daz b me say u is gangsta with that call b - safe an summa dat b - touch.

Quite.

Re: Thoughts from tonight.. : Sat Feb 18, 2017 9:56 pm  

GIANT DAZ wrote:

Quite.

Re: Thoughts from tonight.. : Sun Feb 19, 2017 10:23 am  

Sheepridge Giant wrote:

All can say is after the way Sebastine & Ukuma ran the ball up,the interchange forwards now know what they have to live up to,if they don't put the same effort in they are letting the opposition off the hook.

Rapira didn't look comfortable as the loose man,maybe better off the interchange

A fb joining the line looking so dangerous to the oppositon,how long have we been waiting for this.

Stone needs to keep building Brierley's confidence in terms of decision making,I think RB's capable of getting this right in the long term.

yes, will he split them up and put one on the bench... they are working well with each other so prob best to keep them together and stick rapira on the bench with either wakeman/clough... they need to try match our starting props


yes a full back joining the line, missed that for years!

Re: Thoughts from tonight.. : Sun Feb 19, 2017 11:04 am  

brearley84 wrote:

yes, will he split them up and put one on the bench... they are working well with each other so prob best to keep them together and stick rapira on the bench with either wakeman/clough... they need to try match our starting props


yes a full back joining the line, thats been happening for years!

Edited for accuracy.

Re: Thoughts from tonight.. : Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:33 pm  

jools wrote:

Edited for accuracy.

Not with any real creativity or menace though. The last time we had any of that was with Hodgson.

I was really happy with what I saw of Gaskell in attack - he seemed to add something we have been missing. Definitely something to build on