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| With York seemingly securing top spot, it looks like we'll have to go through the play-offs. Unless Kear gets an improvement, we're going to struggle.
We've pretty disgracefully thrown away top spot. After the York debacle we only had to win our remaining 8 games. All of which we were huge favourites. When some of the games were against the likes of West Wales & Hemel we realistically only had 4 games we had to turn up for and couldn't manage it.
Lets be frank. Keighley aren't great. We had a man advantage for most of the game yet we spent most a lot of the game watching them attack our line. Yes we defended well but Keighley aren't a great attacking side. We've seen what a good attacking side can do to our "great" defence. Error after error after error. How many times have we messed the kick-off up this season.
The tries we scored weren't great team rugby league tries. How many tries did we score with great passing play to put the winger in? Same old get out of jail. Kick to Ethan Ryan, or a missed tackled from a tired Keighley player. Keyes eye catching breaks were great, but a Workington player won't miss that tackle. Our passing was disgraceful. Keyes threw 2 shockers. Against better teams, we would have lost today IMO we just don't seem to be creting tries and our passing is so sloppy.
Really frustrating. The players aren't playing bad individually. But as a team we seem to be lacking in a lot of areas. Individual plays can get us out of jail against poor teams like today. But against the tougher ones, we need to be playing a hell of a lot better as a team than recently.
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| If I had to pick one single thing, out of quite a few, then I would pick the sheer number of times this season when we have given the ball away in "absolutely no excuse" plays.
Quite a few against Keighley - kickoffs being 5 or 6 of them - but stuff like coughing up the ball on the zero or first tackle, letting a kickoff bounce dead, endlessly failing to get anywhere near completing sets, that sort of stuff is what's frustrating the hell out of me especially at this stage of the season.
I offer no clue why it keeps happening, or how you cut it out.
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| Wakey probably had it right. Kear also did the defensive coaching with Chester and other coaches doing the attack. One day that might happen with us if Kear moves up and a younger coach such as Ford came in. Just throwing that one in for discussion!
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| Quote: bullinenemyland "
That said, Kear is old school and I remember playing 20yrs ago when most teams philosophies were "defence wins games". This is not something he's going to change whilst he has this particular squad and limited training time.
If you are only going to get 4-5hrs training on the field, I see why you are going to focus on keeping the opposition from scoring.'"
Great post!
Well the current mode of play will not sell season tickets for sure. Its utterly depressing to watch.
IF (by hook or crook) we get in the Championship - that may trigger sales - but only based on hope - not performance.
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| Quote: woolly07 "Wakey probably had it right. Kear also did the defensive coaching with Chester and other coaches doing the attack. One day that might happen with us if Kear moves up and a younger coach such as Ford came in. Just throwing that one in for discussion!'"
Bullinenemyland referenced the lack of training time in the evening further up the thread, so I'd guess this is something to do with some of the lack of 'well practiced' attacking moves. We are actually the highest scorers in our division (?)though, despite all our perceived failings, so I'd guess that management are fairly happy - though I'm equally sure they must be able to see the same faiings and lack of cohesion as us.
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| What you guys are saying about Kear rings bells in my head of Jon Sharp at Featherstone. Got them into the Qualifiers last year despite being predicted to just miss out, and immediately left the club with talk from the chairman about getting results but playing boring rugby and not being attractive to fans.
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