Re: Our Glaring Deficiency : Sun Oct 06, 2019 9:46 pm  

morleys_deckchair wrote:

the main tactic in RL is to draw as much attention as you can, into the middle of the pitch, then spread it quickly to talented athletes.

No, no, no it's 2 drives by wingers, 3 by forwards and then if you by some miracle haven't made a mistake and still have the ball, kick the ball towards your tallest centre. Then repeat the process every single time you get the ball back.

Re: Our Glaring Deficiency : Mon Oct 14, 2019 12:48 pm  

Maybe it's the darker nights setting in but the more I've thought about it the more I'm gloomy about next year.

I've seen NOTHING that leads me to believe our boring, predictable play will change.
I put this fundamentally at SPs door.
He's got to sort it out.

Getting Widdop is massive and a great signing and we have many other very good players but they've not been playing well for months and SP hasn't sorted it out.

I reaĺy hope I'm wrong, but I can certainly see a massive drop in season ticket sales and attendances next year.

Reasons to be positive....?

Re: Our Glaring Deficiency : Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:49 pm  

fez1 wrote:

Reasons to be positive....?

I think it's better to spend the off-season with the hope of beautiful attacking rugby and well coordinated flowing moves backed up by iron defence and high levels of flair, team spirit, and determination all packaged together into a wonderful match day atmosphere with the attendance average back up to 12,000+. Or you could watch DVDs of the 2011 season.

Re: Our Glaring Deficiency : Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:59 pm  

We just havnt got anybody with that initial acceleration, then sustained pace.
The sort that strikes fear into opposition defences, or comes anywhere near a Powderhall Sprint entry level.

Re: Our Glaring Deficiency : Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:27 pm  

Yeah i'm not full of joy looking at next season, 1 great signing, a centre not as good as Goodwin and another potentially good centre, a potentially good winger, an 8th-9th choice rookie Prop and a "Surprise" more than likely gonna be a disappointing prop........like if these are the signings that are supposed to entice fans to renew season tickets and get us excited for next season they've fallen completely flat on their face. Definately make or break for price next year.

Re: Our Glaring Deficiency : Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:43 pm  

I think the best policy could be for the club to issue mind bending drugs to the fans then we can imagine we are watching a great team. All in lovely vivid colours too.

Re: Our Glaring Deficiency : Mon Oct 14, 2019 9:07 pm  

ninearches wrote:

I think the best policy could be for the club to issue mind bending drugs to the fans then we can imagine we are watching a great team. All in lovely vivid colours too.

the club dont need to issue anything.... its magic mushroom season.

get yourself out there before the first frost and get your own

Re: Our Glaring Deficiency : Mon Oct 14, 2019 9:48 pm  

fez1 wrote:

Maybe it's the darker nights setting in but the more I've thought about it the more I'm gloomy about next year.

I've seen NOTHING that leads me to believe our boring, predictable play will change.
I put this fundamentally at SPs door.
He's got to sort it out.

Getting Widdop is massive and a great signing and we have many other very good players but they've not been playing well for months and SP hasn't sorted it out.

I reaĺy hope I'm wrong, but I can certainly see a massive drop in season ticket sales and attendances next year.

Reasons to be positive....?

I also find it really hard to be positive about next season. I have a feeling it will be like this season, just without the cup win. I feel a bit like I did in the last couple of seasons of Cullen. We're a team that will be on the margins of the playoffs. We might just make the playoffs (and likely get knocked out soon in the playoffs) or we might just miss out. The Cullen team was far more interesting to watch though.

In particular, I just have a bad feeling about Widdop. I can see him missing a lot of time through injury and one of the alibis at the end of the season when the club brass are explaining why things didn't go as expected will be 'we lost our main signing for large parts of the season' etc etc.

Also I bet we're in for another season of hearing lots of stories about how innovative and imaginative the club are in terms of marketing gimmicks, lots about building a brand and management bullocks.

Re: Our Glaring Deficiency : Mon Oct 14, 2019 9:58 pm  

sally cinnamon wrote:

I also find it really hard to be positive about next season. I have a feeling it will be like this season, just without the cup win. I feel a bit like I did in the last couple of seasons of Cullen. We're a team that will be on the margins of the playoffs. We might just make the playoffs (and likely get knocked out soon in the playoffs) or we might just miss out. The Cullen team was far more interesting to watch though.

In particular, I just have a bad feeling about Widdop. I can see him missing a lot of time through injury and one of the alibis at the end of the season when the club brass are explaining why things didn't go as expected will be 'we lost our main signing for large parts of the season' etc etc.

Also I bet we're in for another season of hearing lots of stories about how innovative and imaginative the club are in terms of marketing gimmicks, lots about building a brand and management bullocks.

Im remaining optimistic until the signings are announced. Although it's not looking great right now, we're still looking whilst a lot of good business has already been done. We may gave joked about it but it looks more like we banked in wakey going down and going for fifita. But I have hope as barring gelling we've not really heard much maybe we have everything done and will be announced shortly.

Re: Our Glaring Deficiency : Mon Oct 14, 2019 10:42 pm  

Cooper Cronk is out of contract now