Re: Challenge Cup V Leigh : Sun Apr 22, 2018 2:41 pm  

brian2 wrote:

Is it on radio?

We're getting spanked so I wouldn't bother.

Re: Challenge Cup V Leigh : Sun Apr 22, 2018 4:57 pm  

Now that is out of the way, we can rearrange our Sheffield game and get on with the season.

Re: Challenge Cup V Leigh : Sun Apr 22, 2018 6:18 pm  

Bostwick wrote:

Now that is out of the way, we can rearrange our Sheffield game and get on with the season.

Easier said than done after a humiliation like that!

Re: Challenge Cup V Leigh : Sun Apr 22, 2018 6:33 pm  

Lovell, i think withdraws shortly before kick off, not the first player to do so this season. Seems to me we are being stretched physically and because we have such a thin squad with a number of injuries, we are asking players to play when not fully fit or out of position. Sammut goes off after about 20 minutes, comes back after half time to replace the injured Pewhairangi, who is followed off the field by the injured Dixon.
I think we will struggle to put out a decent side next week.

Re: Challenge Cup V Leigh : Sun Apr 22, 2018 6:49 pm  

Dewsbury will be licking there lips

Re: Challenge Cup V Leigh : Sun Apr 22, 2018 6:57 pm  

I can't think that game will have done a lot for your confidence, let alone your injury problems.

Leigh's success was built on a very powerful, almost ferocious, defensive performance, and some excellent finishing. Even on the occasions when you broke their line, they managed to turn around and prevent the score. Your game against us in a couple of weeks, could now be key to your season.

Re: Challenge Cup V Leigh : Sun Apr 22, 2018 7:43 pm  

Key to our season was easter. Those results showed where we really are this year. We have you again and Toulouse twice, can’t see us winning any of those games. Toronto actually I don’t know, they are scraping games rather than being dominant.

Re: Challenge Cup V Leigh : Sun Apr 22, 2018 7:51 pm  

I was at game today...we looked absolutely knackered from the start, I heard the boys got beasted this week, that on top of 3 games in 7 days has taken its toll!

Re: Challenge Cup V Leigh : Sun Apr 22, 2018 7:54 pm  

northernbloke wrote:

Key to our season was easter. Those results showed where we really are this year. We have you again and Toulouse twice, can’t see us winning any of those games. Toronto actually I don’t know, they are scraping games rather than being dominant.

2 weeks ago you were slagging anyone off who dared to say a bad word, now you come out with this garbage

Re: Challenge Cup V Leigh : Sun Apr 22, 2018 7:59 pm  

So, as surmised elsewhere when the coach was appointed and the squad was completed, neither would appear to be up to the task in hand. Given we overachieved in 2013 before being spanked by Wigan in the cup, has anyone inquired as to the mood-set of our owner, because another meltdown from him and it'll be curtains.....

The squad is too thin as we knew and it would seem that man management is not high on the CV of our coach in an almost Powellesque way.......ward is 7/10....Powell was 4 and a draw from 10......and I honestly can't see where our next win is going to come from......Dewsbury just got spanked at Home by Fax (who seem to be putting on a decent run of results) ad before Easter I'd have penciled in a W beside that fixture......now I'm not sure we'd even beat Sheffield.

If it is true that Ward "beasted" the players this week, then it is further proof that great salesmen rarely make good managers.......a paper thin squad short on confidence needs encouraging, not punishing......but I suspect that Ward got a bollocking from Hughes and passed on the message.......