Let’s hear the excuses for yet another second half shutout. Nowt changes, let’s hear what super Si says!
Give me one positive post about that farce of that second half ‘performance’
30 minutes of Solid Defence and good scramble was a positive from that second forty.
Countered by the negatives of our right edge D in the last 10. Our 2nd half tactics. Matty Smith looking further off the pace then i would in a long distant race against Mo Farah. And the fact that our attacking shape looks worse than most other teams, despite us supposedly having better halves than each of our opponents so far.
Looks like if this is true about the three who were out leaving the forwards and bench looking weak, proved to be the case. Not having BAKER, DWYER and FARNWORTH, JOWITT being injured and then the injury to COOK and the unnecessary sin-binning of Doro (when we needed him to stay on the pitch), we were busted at the end and so it proved. The game went away from us without Doro on the pitch and their big pack proved too much. CLOUGH was outstanding, and GRADY very industrious, but we needed a real contribution from more than what we had available. The pack needs bolstering I think.
.....we still should never had lost a 14 point lead in the last 15 minutes........
Aha! I found the ranting thread!
What lost the game for us was undoubtedly the last pass from dummy half of the game! I’ve no idea who it was, but for God’s sake we were on the last, 10 metres out in front of the bloody sticks and he chucks it to the right instead of back to either one of two kickers! Criminal!
If anyone knows who it was, don’t tell me.
First League Game Of The Season , Let's Try And Be Rational Here . Admittedly We Should Have Killed The Game Off Well Before The End . Some Of Our Big Hitters Missing Didn't Help . We Will Get Sharper With The Ball As The Season Goes On . Let's Try And Stay Positive Here . This Time Last Year We Weren't Sure When We Would See Widnes Play Again
First League Game Of The Season , Let’s Try And Be Rational Here . Admittedly We Should Have Killed The Game Off Well Before The End . Some Of Our Big Hitters Missing Didn’t Help . We Will Get Sharper With The Ball As The Season Goes On . Let’s Try And Stay Positive Here . This Time Last Year We Weren’t Sure When We Would See Widnes Play Again
Heard all that before.
As I’ve said in another thread, we can’t expect to win every game, however something went wrong on the pitch today that needs sorting out.
OK, we were missing some good players but that doesn’t excuse the lack of points in the second half and the unbelievable last play when a drop goal would have saved the game.
a point more than london york and bradford
Let’s hear the excuses for yet another second half shutout. Nowt changes, let’s hear what super Si says!
What did you think about the first half ?
Do you think it might have been different if we hadn’t lost a couple of lads from the squad with Covid ?
a point more than london york and bradford
But still the same win percentage.Nil.
a point more than london york and bradford
But still the same win percentage.Nil.
thats true, im not saying im happy with yesterday, but we are lucky were not on zero points if they would of converted that try.
plenty of games left mate, onwards and upwards hopefully.
Aha! I found the ranting thread! What lost the game for us was undoubtedly the last pass from dummy half of the game! I’ve no idea who it was, but for God’s sake we were on the last, 10 metres out in front of the bloody sticks and he chucks it to the right instead of back to either one of two kickers! Criminal! If anyone knows who it was, don’t tell me.
To be fair, I think it was a planned move to create more space for Craven and create a decoy. The problem was the pass to Smith was dreadful and gave him no chance of getting it quickly on to Craven.
Thought the last 15, we needed more from Smith, he is an international half back and should have took the game by the scruff of the knock, it was only going one way and him or craven should have stepped up and controlled the last quarter.