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| I totally get why there are question marks over the squad but going back to previous points, you can only beat what is in front of you.
I can forgive the York loss as they are a side filled with some very good, well drilled players. They equally have as many full time players as ourselves despite what anyone says. Whilst we could have started off a hundred times better, a loss for me was no disgrace.
Workington was a different story. We had the wrong team selection, we were out-muscled, outsmarted and on the wrong end of some quite frankly appalling refereeing decisions.
For me we have the guts of a good championship squad. Its going to need some fresh faces but its the first year and Kear did say this was not a quick fix. We have some young talent that need blooding and that will do us good in the long run.
If rumours are true next year, I'll be quite happy with the back line. Forwards need buliking up and improving though. A fair starting line up could look like...
1. Pickersgill (McNally not recovered well enough from his injuries and not worth his spot IMO)
2. Hitchcox
3. Webster
4. Egodo
5. Ryan
6. Keyes
7. Lilley
8. Crossley
9. Wildie
10. New Prop
11. Minchella
12. Laithwaite
13. New Loose Forward
14. Bustin
15. Peltier
16. New Back Rower
17. Flanagan
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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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