Re: Tonights Game v Salford : Fri Jul 12, 2019 9:43 pm  

Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:

Mamo was garbage tonight, his kick judgement is poor, his running onto passes is poor(though austin and patton were throwing some shockers as well) and he's picking up a knock in every tackle.

Beat me to it.
You only need to look at Mamo, and he's clutching a part of his anatomy.

Re: Tonights Game v Salford : Fri Jul 12, 2019 9:54 pm  

morrisseyisawire wrote:

I sense public feeling is beginning to swing away from Mr Price.

The stubborn refusal to bring Westwood into the 17 despite our forward woes
The frankly baffling treatment of Livett (who should be in the 17 at half back)
Conservative, dull rugby

Honeymoon period most definitely over

As usual, miaw, you speak my language.
No-one foresaw the Cooper absence, BUT, despite Westwood's obvious disciplinary issues, this game was crying out for him.
I actually thought Tasi and Akuoala opened up well. When they returned, Akuoala still offered something. Tasi was, well, just Tasi.

Price, for me, has used all his "good will". Formulaic NRL style doesn't wash with me. Our players aren't good enough to play that style. Take a few risks, for God's sake.

I'd have Livett over Currie in a heartbeat. Currie is merely going through the motions

Re: Tonights Game v Salford : Fri Jul 12, 2019 9:55 pm  

Psychedelic Casual wrote:

But how many times over the years have we seen Leeds anywhere between average and dreadful in the regular season yet go on to win when it matters?

I’m not saying Wire will do this, this season, come the Play-offs. However I don’t take individual regular round defeats too seriously nor am I ever too downbeat about them.

How many times have we seen Leeds do that....plenty
How many times have we seen Wire do that....none

If we had previous at winning big games when it counted I would be more willing to take that approach of dismissing regular round defeats but we don't, therefore it just makes me more concerned.

Two questions for us to consider at this moment:
1) have we improved on the Wire of 2018?
2) would Tyrone Roberts get in the current side?

At the start of the season what would you have expected those answers to be?

Re: Tonights Game v Salford : Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:00 pm  

In the regular rounds, things are never as good as you think when you win and things are never as bad as you think when you lose.

There are things that many players do exactly the same in both wins and defeats. Good and bad. But you forget about the bad things when you win and forget about the good things when you lose.

The big games are coming up; let’s see how we fair then.

Re: Tonights Game v Salford : Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:02 pm  

sally cinnamon wrote:

How many times have we seen Leeds do that....plenty
How many times have we seen Wire do that....none

If we had previous at winning big games when it counted I would be more willing to take that approach of dismissing regular round defeats but we don't, therefore it just makes me more concerned.

Two questions for us to consider at this moment:
1) have we improved on the Wire of 2018?
2) would Tyrone Roberts get in the current side?

At the start of the season what would you have expected those answers to be?

1) well, we don’t know yet, we haven’t played the big games, they’re still to come
2) I haven’t even thought about Roberts all year really, and thinking about it, not in place of Austin, no.

Re: Tonights Game v Salford : Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:04 pm  

Thant was as poor a performance as I've seen for ages. No urgency, no go forward, poorly executed basics.
It looked like we just dragged 13 strangers in off Winwick St and asked them to play for us tonight. Absolutely shocking and not what I expect from a club with our financial clout.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Tonights Game v Salford : Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:07 pm  

Matt Davis was good again tonight, i love that little nice bloke, he's too small though.

Tasi again only did 1 stint, he was ok bending down to pray at the end.

Moran did ok i suppose in his debut, nothing special but nothing particularly bad.

Re: Tonights Game v Salford : Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:22 pm  

We're just a slightly above average team at the moment and we are getting less effective each week like we've ran out of ideas and enthusiasm. The team needs a shake up. Livett needs to come back to us he's better than both currie and Hughes and i believe he'd be better in the halves than Patton. Austin tries every week but with no runners backing him up and a 50% effective forward pack what exactly do you expect him to do. The team looks so complacent it's unreal. Bring Johnson back aswell and put him in the pack and let Westwood loose again. This formula is very very bland and needs a change quick. We're only in second at the moment because there are a lot of teams that have been awful in big patches this season where we have been slightly better. We won't win F#@k all this season with the current squad playing as they are, Jason Clark is an ok player at best from what i've seen so far this season, Matt Davis puts a lot in but never breaks a tackle or even make yards after impact. We've become so boring to watch it's unreal.

Re: Tonights Game v Salford : Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:28 pm  

I was at the game tonight and enjoyed it! I can understand that most of you didn’t but Salford were good and better from 1-13. Fair play to them they got stuck in and made you look very ordinary. Where are Westwood and Atkins these days? You’re crying out for them regardless of whether you think they’re past it or not. Can anybody give me a reasoned argument at what Toby King is good at? He wouldn’t make the Widnes team by a long chalk at the minute for me! Patton... well I think we’re all on the same wavelength there. Westwood who you say is on one season too long will still be better in 4 years time than some of your current forwards! I was hoping to see a good performance tonight from the Wire cos I’m bang in your corner but sad to say there’s more disappointment very much on the cards!

Re: Tonights Game v Salford : Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:29 pm  

Got home really quickly tonight. Started the sorrows drowning.
Watched the KR-Leeds game.
Luckily the pain got dulled.
When the league table came on screen I was relieved to see we can't get relegated.

1. The forward pass call was a shocker but it shouldn't have affected us like it appeared to.

2. McCarthy was pathetic pretending to be hurt.

3. Danny Walker injected a spark

4. Our pack is too small

5. Mamo is unlucky

6. Patton was at his best as back-up hooker. No other SL side has such a limited h.b.

7. Why did Tasi do 20 mins and Ex-Wids Dudson 60?

8. Team warning with 15 secs to go... over to you Cummings

9. Where's my fridge gone....