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| I don't think Leigh are necessarily going backwards, but I do feel the last two games have been a bit of reality check for them. They've had a brilliant campaign in the league this season and naturally, a team looks better when they're scoring 60 points every week. Some of their fans have gone into the Super 8s believing that top 3 is very achievable and that top 5 is a certainty. It's not really worked out that way. They were comfortably beating Hull KR and poor tactics cost them, though Rovers were much improved in the second half. I didn't watch the Salford v Leigh match, but I imagine it played out similar to our match against Wakefield; the score-lines were almost identical.
It's the same for ourselves. We looked good in the Sheffield match and I went into the Wakefield match thinking we could get a result. A win against Wakefield and I think top 3 could have been possible. But we just didn't turn up on the day. Their ruck speed and their aggression in the pack killed us in the first 10 minutes, and we gave Tim Smith far too much time on the ball. Whether that was down to poor tactics, or whether we were shell-shocked from the way Wakefield started, I don't know. If there was one thing we couldn't handle, it was the speed at which Wakefield were playing. The step up in ruck speed and energy compared to the first 23 rounds of the season was evident, and we were 30-0 down before we knew what was happening.
Against Salford, our only hope is that they go into the game over-confident and relaxed, and that we come out the blocks fired up, which I think we will. I think whatever happens, Salford will ultimately have too much quality and will run away with the game in the last 20 minutes or so, like Hull KR did to us in the Challenge Cup. With Leigh being at home against Wakefield, they might be able to sneak a result. If they do, and we lose to Salford, our chances are looking grim.
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| All I'm sayin is you can't call out any player for not doing whatever job Jimmy had given them, after that performance. Lauaki was part of the team that did it, and you have to assume he did what Jimmy asked. We did what most said wasn't possible, not just beat but slaughtered a SL club, and that's a situation where you have to give the benefit of any doubt to each player that was part of it.
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| Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "All I'm sayin is you can't call out any player for not doing whatever job Jimmy had given them, after that performance. Lauaki was part of the team that did it, and you have to assume he did what Jimmy asked. We did what most said wasn't possible, not just beat but slaughtered a SL club, and that's a situation where you have to give the benefit of any doubt to each player that was part of it.'"
Amen to that FA!
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| Didnt someone mention on here that they should be doing that haha
On Lauaki, i think he is worth keeping and when he is on form he is very good, quick feet for a big man with some speed to boot, always seems to be looking for a gap
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| Quote: broadybull87 "Didnt someone mention on here that they should be doing that haha
On Lauaki, i think he is worth keeping and when he is on form he is very good, quick feet for a big man with some speed to boot, always seems to be looking for a gap'"
Yeah, I said that. For that price too. Goddamn Bulls stole my idea!!!!
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