bellycouldtackle wrote:
Top effort today, great win built on outstanding defence. My take on trying to answer Fishermans question would be to suggest that playing Tupou on the wing was a good idea, he had his most influential game for ages and it also allowed Arundel who I think is our best centre to play and he was excellent. The other big point is that because of injuries we played Max , Miller and Rocky at 1,6 and 7 which in my opinion is our best option, it worked well two years ago and I hope is now not tinkered with and given time to develop. Rocky defending on the right side had the pace to cut down Ratchford when he was running on the outside having received the ball behind the runner. Miller was poor in the first half but got involved in the second and showed some good touches. The other big difference was that we completed sets. Attitude was excellent as well
Does every one of your posts have to be an advert for Ryan Hampshire. You’re like some odd RL dating app!
Hampshire has never in the two and a bit seasons he’s been at the club ever gotten close to being a first choice HB, I’m sorry but he just hasn’t.
All his best games and he’s had a few, have been from FB or on the wing. He has never had what I would call a match winning game at HB.
Today was no different. Today was won by the pack and the generally excellent defensive mentality shown by the whole team. Neither Hampshire or Miller had a massive impact on the game other than that.
It wasn’t a HB’s game to be fair but let’s at least be honest. Both had poor first halves and much better second halves. Whether Brough would have done better or worse is immaterial as he wasn’t playing was he!
So please please stop over promoting this player and just let him get on with it and find his level, whatever that might be. I really don’t think this constant overhyping is helping the lad, in fact I think in the past it’s positively hampered him
He probably has two or three more games to prove himself before Brough returns. If he wants to keep Brough out he needs to improve quite a bit on previous outings in those remaining games imho.
As I say today was not a day for HB’s so I’m not going to judge him or Miller harshly but likewise I’m not going to give them credit they don’t deserve. As part of the team they played there part but as the MOM tells you, neither were the stars.
If the weather is better on Friday I suspect we will get a better idea if they are the future or another dead end.
Just my opinion and I don’t suppose you’ll agree but that’s forums for you
We'd probably lose and beat Saints away week after lol.
