Re: Catalan it is : Sat Sep 27, 2014 12:31 pm  

well it just wasnt going to be our night , could sense it with the power cut chaos!

4250 not a bad crowd on the night so well done for the promotion.

our kicking game in the first half was very poor, brough abit rusty after a few weeks off, thought catalans were very good and that we were lucky to be drawing at half time, they really are full of confidence!

where as we are down on confidence, lost it in the forwards again, catalans were allowed to get away with slowing the ruck down by the ref though and offside a fair bit.

but overall we deserve nothing this season as we have been poor all season, performances way down on last season for whatever reason..world cup have an affect? whatever it is anderson has a big task on his hands, starting to lose confidence in him, not been able to rectify the problems all season even when we know where we are going wrong.

Re: Catalan it is : Sat Sep 27, 2014 12:35 pm  

where did you get that figure from brearley? every report i have seen states 6,900

Re: Catalan it is : Sat Sep 27, 2014 12:40 pm  

meast wrote:

where did you get that figure from brearley? every report i have seen states 6,900

its in the examiner today, i couldnt find one anywhere else, not on bbc.

Re: Catalan it is : Sat Sep 27, 2014 7:26 pm  

brearley84 wrote:

well it just wasnt going to be our night , could sense it with the power cut chaos!

4250 not a bad crowd on the night so well done for the promotion.

our kicking game in the first half was very poor, brough abit rusty after a few weeks off, thought catalans were very good and that we were lucky to be drawing at half time, they really are full of confidence!

where as we are down on confidence, lost it in the forwards again, catalans were allowed to get away with slowing the ruck down by the ref though and offside a fair bit.

but overall we deserve nothing this season as we have been poor all season, performances way down on last season for whatever reason..world cup have an affect? whatever it is anderson has a big task on his hands, starting to lose confidence in him, not been able to rectify the problems all season even when we know where we are going wrong.

I'm not sure why you are losing confidence in Anderson- he has been saying the same things as us all season! I don't get this -he can't motivate the team stuff. If the team can't get themselves motivated to perform in a playoff game then nothing he does or say is going to help!!!!

Re: Catalan it is : Sat Sep 27, 2014 8:15 pm  

jools wrote:

I'm not sure why you are losing confidence in Anderson- he has been saying the same things as us all season! I don't get this -he can't motivate the team stuff. If the team can't get themselves motivated to perform in a playoff game then nothing he does or say is going to help!!!!

I agree and I think it's also as much bottle as motivation that we struggle with and I'm not sure you can blame coaches for that - it's what differentiates the great teams and players from the good ones. In the big games, and in the most important game moments, a massive amount more often than not, we are found wanting. This has been the case for many years with a number of coaches. Sacking PA won't solve this - a better recruitment policy would be a much more progressive way forward.

Re: Catalan it is : Sun Sep 28, 2014 9:32 am  

Unbeliever wrote:

I agree and I think it's also as much bottle as motivation that we struggle with and I'm not sure you can blame coaches for that - it's what differentiates the great teams and players from the good ones. In the big games, and in the most important game moments, a massive amount more often than not, we are found wanting. This has been the case for many years with a number of coaches. Sacking PA won't solve this - a better recruitment policy would be a much more progressive way forward.

depends whos making the decisions recruiting wise! and handing out new contracts

Re: Catalan it is : Sun Sep 28, 2014 7:11 pm  

You also have to appreciate that NB signed up a lot of players on long term contracts. PA is now stuck with these -whether he wants the players or not!