Re: Newcastle Thunder (A) : Fri May 18, 2018 7:28 pm  

Well it's certainly been a step up from the teams we've played recently. Not been helped by Bradford being very sloppy with the ball in hand.

If it was throwing it down, you might be able to forgive the number of handling errors this evening. But it's a beautiful evening so you just think that Kear will be hoping for half time so he can get the lads in and get them to calm it down

Re: Newcastle Thunder (A) : Fri May 18, 2018 7:48 pm  

Not sure how we're ahead at HT with the amount of errors. Sure Kear will be into them at HT about it. When we're near the line we score. Just got to keep hold of the ball and we should win. Look a decent outfit Newcastle.

Re: Newcastle Thunder (A) : Fri May 18, 2018 8:39 pm  

The two points main thing. Newcastle deserve a heap of credit extremely lively. Lewis young and Theerapol Ritson have been very very good for them

Re: Newcastle Thunder (A) : Fri May 18, 2018 8:43 pm  

I think that might be our worst performance of the season. God knows what our completion rate and error count was.
Rescued by a couple of moments of individual skill there, but there was absolutely no cohesion from us as a group of players whatsoever.

Re: Newcastle Thunder (A) : Fri May 18, 2018 8:43 pm  

Very scrappy game but we’ve got the 2 points. Another lacklustre performance. Thunder never gave up and could have pinched it. Brandon Pickersgill & Ethan Ryan were immense tonight.

Great atmosphere!

Re: Newcastle Thunder (A) : Fri May 18, 2018 8:48 pm  

If that is the best we can play under perfect conditions then we are going to struggle. There are some players in that team who need to take a real good look at themselves. And I would suggest John kear ups the anti in training too

Re: Newcastle Thunder (A) : Fri May 18, 2018 8:54 pm  

A win is a win. Improvements needed.

Re: Newcastle Thunder (A) : Fri May 18, 2018 9:03 pm  

I watched the game on Proper Sport tonight very painful viewing. Sam Hallas saying him and Wood rested tonight, there could be a few more "rested" next week. But as someone has said it's another two points.

Re: Newcastle Thunder (A) : Fri May 18, 2018 9:08 pm  

Molsk111 wrote:

If that is the best we can play under perfect conditions then we are going to struggle. There are some players in that team who need to take a real good look at themselves. And I would suggest John kear ups the anti in training too

Think that's a bit strong. I didn't see the first two tries, so can't comment if they were soft but after that we defended brilliantly. Was more a concentration thing or trying too hard that led to the errors. It certainly wasn't lack of effort. As Northus said, we didn't look that cohesive but that was because we didn't have the ball for any sustained amount of time. Was always going to be a tricky game and Newcastle threw the kitchen sink at us and we've come away with the win. Was impressed by Newcastle, good line speed and very aggressive. Another win ticked off.

Re: Newcastle Thunder (A) : Fri May 18, 2018 9:31 pm  

We should be hammering them especially in perfect conditions. No excuses in my.book