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| Well, if we don't get promotion, i suppose we can take a man in the Opta team of the week as a close second best.
Listen, if a team defends for 79 out of 80 minutes then some of the tackling stats are going to be high. Wakefield thrashed us, yet the stats won't show big defensive numbers for any of them, not because they couldn't defend, but because we couldn't find their end of the pitch, and because they selfishly kept all the ball.
I have been mulling over the Wakefield debacle for reasons ever since the game, and I have concluded the biggest issue likely was a fear and a total lack of self-belief. They feared they would be mullered by the Wakey pack, and gave them too much respect. Lack of effort? that is contentious territory. But yes, extremely clearly there was a lack of effort. They were not playing as hard and as aggressively as they could, or anywhere near. They needed to start by getting right into Wakefield's faces and hitting them hard, quickly and in numbers. They did none of those things, instead just stood back and watched.
if we come out strong and hard against Salford, getting right into their faces and hitting them hard, quickly and in numbers then I won't be bothered if we lose, because we will have made them know they were in a game, and we will have done our best.
That at Wakefield was nowhere near our best. Or if it was, then we may as well pack the sport in right now.
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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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1271.jpg Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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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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Black Backgrounds/Earl%20Sinclair.gif Veni, Vidi, Spurius brutus detruncavi
I came, I saw, I tore the thick b4st4rds limb from limb
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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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