Re: Get Your Kicks On Route Sixty-Grix - Hudds (a) : Tue Aug 18, 2015 7:01 pm  

I was there and once again,I fear, was struck by the generally good team play and the abysmal individual errors.I am afraid that Escare is not and will never be an effective defender.He dropped a crucial high ball from distance and is clearly too scared to contest any high ball from 30 metres out-I was watching him very carefully and I am certain about this.Tonga donated 2 tries-it's as simple as that.Of the rest I again disagree with others about Dureau, Henderson and Pelissier.I was especially impressed with Inu who was simply brilliant.often making more metres than the forwards,despite an early injury.
However, every other team knows that we cannot defend against the high ball and we are particularly hopeless against Danny Brough

Re: Get Your Kicks On Route Sixty-Grix - Hudds (a) : Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:19 pm  

catalanglais wrote:

I was there and once again,I fear, was struck by the generally good team play and the abysmal individual errors.I am afraid that Escare is not and will never be an effective defender.He dropped a crucial high ball from distance and is clearly too scared to contest any high ball from 30 metres out-I was watching him very carefully and I am certain about this.Tonga donated 2 tries-it's as simple as that.Of the rest I again disagree with others about Dureau, Henderson and Pelissier.I was especially impressed with Inu who was simply brilliant.often making more metres than the forwards,despite an early injury.
However, every other team knows that we cannot defend against the high ball and we are particularly hopeless against Danny Brough

If you think that Dureau's performances this season have been anything like acceptable or that Henderson is a better option than Pelissier to the extent of dropping Pelissier entirely from the squad, then quite frankly you are biased in some way. There's no other explanation.

Re: Get Your Kicks On Route Sixty-Grix - Hudds (a) : Wed Aug 19, 2015 5:27 pm  

Yeah I agree thet Dureau has not been good this year and Pellisier has needed to play more minutes.

Re: Get Your Kicks On Route Sixty-Grix - Hudds (a) : Thu Aug 20, 2015 9:11 am  

We shall have to agree to disagree.What concerns me more is that no one seems bothered that Escare cannot catch ,kick ,pass ,run back or tackle effectively.We give away more soft tries than any other team in the top 8 and we need to take action .I say Inu -outstanding last Friday though this passed unnoticed,incidentally my views are based on inductive evidence based on being at the games,a very expensive hobby-or possibly Richards should be full back next year and that any players who regularly give away soft tries ie. Escare and Tonga should not be in the team.We should be a top 4 club.I do not blame the coaching staff.They cannot legislate for lack of basic bottle.

Re: Get Your Kicks On Route Sixty-Grix - Hudds (a) : Thu Aug 20, 2015 1:18 pm  

catalanglais wrote:

We shall have to agree to disagree.What concerns me more is that no one seems bothered that Escare cannot catch ,kick ,pass ,run back or tackle effectively.We give away more soft tries than any other team in the top 8 and we need to take action .I say Inu -outstanding last Friday though this passed unnoticed,incidentally my views are based on inductive evidence based on being at the games,a very expensive hobby-or possibly Richards should be full back next year and that any players who regularly give away soft tries ie. Escare and Tonga should not be in the team.We should be a top 4 club.I do not blame the coaching staff.They cannot legislate for lack of basic bottle.

Come on mate Escare isn't that bad. He is a fair weather player, when its wet he isn't physical enough to be effective. But when we are playing well he is at the heart of it, he needs confidence. He was brilliant last year and you don't become crap in one year. Richards is not a full back and neither is Inu.