terry silver wrote:
That was a typical performance from us of late. A terrible start you could of thought we was the away side and still on the bus and Barrow started with plenty of energy making easy meters up the middle and causing us problems with there offloads leading to there 3 scores. Our defence was poor and our kickoffs are so easy to deal with when you compare them to what we come up against. Thankfully after that we got 2 scores pretty quickly and then Sammut gave the ref a verbal blast and got himself sent off and from that point we ran away with the game scoring some lovely tries along the way with Lachlen adding another 4 to his tally how many he will get this year who knows. For me Lannon would of got man of the match he makes a big difference coming off the bench with is direct running and awkward style. Does this performance put to bed the criticisms of the side this season no those areas still look a problem to me but we move now onto York who have a midweek trip to Whitehaven before they play us so that should give us a big advantage going into Sundays game.
Agree lannon mom for me , also must give credit to barrows tactics of exposing saltys lack pace , which begs the question of perhaps trying maizen on that wing . I got the feeling Grix was questioning the commitment of our starting props so it’ll be interesting to see if that changes. Controversially I think Fleming is doing what is asked of him and considering the criticism he has received I think he’s doing well . Don’t know what’s happened to doro but if he’s fit I’d drop Murray who despite being steady his standards aren’t where they were last year , bearing all this in mind my seventeen for York would be ….
Backline ( for me this has a better blend of pace and physicality, both walmsey and crooks provide a go to kicking game with their height n jump abilities, maizen and walmsey on the wings would provide frightening pace )
Woody
Walmsey
Tibbs/McComb
Crooks
Maizen
Jouffret ( top 3 performer this year consistently)
Wood ( not perfect but doing a good job of stepping in for Keyes )
Calcott
Obrien this combination of power , strength and quick ptb works for me.
Lannon
Kav
Gee … both consistently aggressive
Fairbank ( perfect balance of aggression and ball playing forward )
Bench
Doro( explosive aggressive fast prop )
Fleming ( 20 mins of 19 stone when the opposition is fatigued)
Tangata ( agile experience and aggression)
Inman ( exemplary distribution, quick ruck speed and solid defence)
I know this won’t be our starting 17 but with the squad we have and recent form this would be my side for th e york game .
