Re: Giants v Catalans (magic weekend) : Mon May 22, 2017 5:47 pm  

Code13 wrote:

Yep, he played a blinder and yes he is 100% dependable
But he is not a centre, his defence was excellent (against a poor attack let's be honest) but his own attack wasn't great either

As I say, Murphy is almost 100% dependable but he won't ever win us a game & if Ridyard performs well on Brough return there's no place in the side for Murphy

Gaskel into the 4 spot he should be in and Darnell on the wing

Re: Giants v Catalans (magic weekend) : Mon May 22, 2017 9:19 pm  

jools wrote:

Can honestly say today was the worst magic ever- and I've been to them all- poor atmosphere all day. It's not magic anymore...

Well you didn`t go for the weekend did you. We had an enjoyable weekend passing the time talking to various club supporters, as well as taking in 4 full games over the weekend. I will be sorry to see the Weekend move personaly. If it moved back to Manchester I would only go on the day Huddersfield were playing as I woudn`t bother stopping in Manchester for a weekend.

Re: Giants v Catalans (magic weekend) : Mon May 22, 2017 9:34 pm  

jools wrote:

Vitriol? Lol. Ok should I say we were brilliant- blew them away. Great rugby.....
but none of that is true.... I say it like I see it. I don't pretend we are great when we aren't.
We played a lot better against Cas but didn't get the points.

Can`t believe what some supporters are saying, example :- boring / poor game. I have a totally different view. It was one of the closest games apart from Wigan v Warrington. It was a very good defensive display from both sides, and when the scores are so close the team can`t take the expansive option for fear of mistakes. People should be able to appreciate good defence as well as length of the field try`s.

Re: Giants v Catalans (magic weekend) : Mon May 22, 2017 10:04 pm  

The length of field tries isn't the issue- the lack of good linespeed was. Our game was played at a pedestrian pace compared to all the other games that weekend. We looked sluggish- and we'd just had a week off! Yes partly that was down to the way the ruck was policed (badly) but we weren't fighting to get up,or moving up quickly in defence. Against a side willing to ptb quickly we would have been crucified.

Re: Giants v Catalans (magic weekend) : Tue May 23, 2017 11:40 am  

So you failed to notice the times we visibly upped our tempo in attack, forcing quick PTB and getting good profit from it?

It was a poor game yes, but that's down to both teams failing to complete sets and a very poor referee slowing both sides to lay on and lurk offside all game

Be critical by all means but get the criticism right

Re: Giants v Catalans (magic weekend) : Tue May 23, 2017 1:12 pm  

Giantscorpio wrote:

Well you didn`t go for the weekend did you. We had an enjoyable weekend passing the time talking to various club supporters, as well as taking in 4 full games over the weekend. I will be sorry to see the Weekend move personaly. If it moved back to Manchester I would only go on the day Huddersfield were playing as I woudn`t bother stopping in Manchester for a weekend.

Yes we did go for the weekend- we always have. We saw all 6 games.
From a family perspective Newcastle is poor. shockingly poor fanzone and poor entertainment at the stadium between games in the opinion of my kids. Etihad made it more of a party atmosphere with lots going on.

Re: Giants v Catalans (magic weekend) : Tue May 23, 2017 1:15 pm  

Code13 wrote:

So you failed to notice the times we visibly upped our tempo in attack, forcing quick PTB and getting good profit from it?

It was a poor game yes, but that's down to both teams failing to complete sets and a very poor referee slowing both sides to lay on and lurk offside all game

Be critical by all means but get the criticism right

You can't just up the tempo for 10 minutes. It needs to be played at pace throughout the 80 minutes. Look at the speed the saints/hull game was played at, or the cas/Leeds,, or even the Leigh Salford game!

Re: Giants v Catalans (magic weekend) : Tue May 23, 2017 1:58 pm  

hey ho we got the 2 points on offer

Re: Giants v Catalans (magic weekend) : Tue May 23, 2017 10:09 pm  

jools wrote:

Yes we did go for the weekend- we always have. We saw all 6 games.
From a family perspective Newcastle is poor. shockingly poor fanzone and poor entertainment at the stadium between games in the opinion of my kids. Etihad made it more of a party atmosphere with lots going on.

I will agree with you regarding poor entertainment, but that is down to the RFL not Newcastle. Big rubberised figures doing races, also the big plastic see-through globes with supporters from different teams competing. It`s knockout type games would keep the kids interested. They could still have young kids playing rugby at one end of the field up to the 22 metre line, leaving plenty of space for fun games.

Re: Giants v Catalans (magic weekend) : Tue May 23, 2017 11:25 pm  

Then I take it that (Me and Jools excepted?) we are all happy with how things panned out !
It was exciting riveting fayre and of astandard that will see see us comfortably achieve a comfortable season end result

We showed that we can upthe ante for 10-15mins and establish a platform to see games out at any point in the match as suits


Its a majority decision that I`ll accept as the status quo in September now I can relax and sleep more easily

Thanks gang !! Why was I ever concerned!