catalanglais wrote:
Hello headhunter.Well I have attended every match in England and several in france.Henderson and Taia have been far and away our best players .the clamour for Pelissier is ridiculous.i cannot recall a single occasion where he has managed to pass the ball to a cooleague after a break.Dureau is not the player of 3 years ago ,but he has worked valinty to overcome the manifest defects of all the backs except of course Carney.We shall have to agree to disagree.I was there on sunday.Were you?
You praise Henderson yet he was the player who was at fault for Salford's first try with a ridiculous lack of concentration. He also cost the game against Warrington with another awful lapse in concentration just minutes after replacing Pelissier, who was close to man of the match and the only attacking threat. Dureau has been utterly awful this year, particularly in the past month, kicking the ball away, taking the wrong option almost every time. You cannot just blame the other players for the failings of these players, someone like Pelissier was dropped for missing one tackle yet the likes of Henderson and Dureau constantly do stupid things, cost the team matches time after time and keep their place. The inconsistency and poor concentration of the likes of Henderson and Dureau is a main reason that the team never wins away, if you've been to all the away matches then you've surely seen how badly they perform. Just winning all the home matches is not good enough now, the new format means that the team can't just scrape into the top 8 and then turn it on in the play-offs anymore.
