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| We were shocking for 60 mins and still got a point, can't complain really.
Good character to come back from an absolute shambles of a 10 minutes at the start of 2nd half.
Plenty to learn from though - if we were playing a decent team we would have had a spanking!
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| Quote: Ewwenorfolk "We were shocking for 60 mins and still got a point, can't complain really.
Good character to come back from an absolute shambles of a 10 minutes at the start of 2nd half.
Plenty to learn from though - if we were playing a decent team we would have had a spanking!'"
We were playing a decent team. If Leigh hadn't put the cue on the rack we'd have been spanked today. As it is, we've gotten out of jail today.
Given Batley have now beaten 3 of last years top 4, I think that the team really needs to pull it's head out of it's backside and start putting in a proper shift. Or if the coach can't get the team to do that then maybe he needs to step down.
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| What a game! Thought Luauki would be first pick next week based on first 60 minutes! Still the result hides a lot of basic issues for me as we saw throughout last season.....including the coaches ability to get a team to play for more than 20 minutes a game. Don't really think Silverwood added anything to the game other than allowing a lot of lieing on and slowing the game down.
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| Appalling 65 minutes and we should not let the last 15 minutes make us forget that. Is it possible that 15 minutes of rugby has maybe saved Jimmy (we don't need a scrum half) Lowes' job. People were walking out with 20 minutes to go. How many of those 8600 supporters who paid on the day will not come back as they will remember the 65 mins not the 15 mins.
Great point earned but the overall performance was like so many we had last year. At the 60 minute mark I would challenge any supporter to pledge their 100% faith in Jimmy as I was struggling at that point.
It will be all put down to another bad day at the office and one poor performance doesn't make us a bad team. I am sure I have heard that before!
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| Mitch Clark was immense today and my MOM! Even through the 65 minutes of e, he carried 3/4 defenders every time! Ran his blood to water... Lauaki could learn a lot from him.
Throughly enjoyed that last 15 minutes
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| Quote: woolly07 "Appalling 65 minutes and we should not let the last 15 minutes make us forget that. Is it possible that 15 minutes of rugby has maybe saved Jimmy (we don't need a scrum half) Lowes' job. People were walking out with 20 minutes to go. How many of those 8600 supporters who paid on the day will not come back as they will remember the 65 mins not the 15 mins.
Great point earned but the overall performance was like so many we had last year. At the 60 minute mark I would challenge any supporter to pledge their 100% faith in Jimmy as I was struggling at that point.
It will be all put down to another bad day at the office and one poor performance doesn't make us a bad team. I am sure I have heard that before!'"
Agree word for word. I hope the last 15 mins doesn't make the team or Jimmy think that things are ok. The first 65 were a disgrace! Tactics appalling. Motivation none existent. Our attacking threat was zilch until we flung the ball about at the end. That performance was all too reminiscent of last year.
Mathers did nothing in attack or defence and needs dropping. Addy was appalling with ball in hand and Gaskell wasn't involved enough.
Why did we play one out rugby when we've a small pack but a lightening back line.
Changes needed for next week. Amazed we got a point.
Serious questions need to be asked of Jimmy after that
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| We were bossed out of it in the opening ten and never got back in. It was awful, and never looked like getting better. Completely out matched upfront and Higham had a ton of space to run us ragged. Our only try up until they switched off was a flukish take from a mistake of theirs. We hadn't created a single thing.
The Leigh fans are looking at as a point gained. And I can understand why. But it wasn't, at all. A point has never been more comprehensively thrown away than that.
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| Totally agree. 6-32 down and even I was saying Jimmy needs to go.
How can we play so bad - 1man rugby, a player up and we let them score 2 tries - absolute garbage.
Then we suddenly switch on and score 26 points in 18 minutes - when was the last time (if ever) we have done that! - Even in Super League, when we were actually pretty good we never pulled a comeback like that.
Ok the tactic may have been tire them out then run round them when they are struggling in the last 20 minutes but I cant believe that.
If that really was Jimmys tactic then it worked - but I doubt it. It was the James Clare & Kurt Haggerty show today, unfortunatley no-one actually told them that until 20 mins to go.
Jimmy and the players should take a real close look at the video of todays game and see what all us fans have been seeing game in game out - 1 man rugby does not win games; off-loads and quick runs do.
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| Not a clue why you tried taking us on up the middle.The flanks was our worry before the game,why did it take so long to discover that flaw.Good response to tie it up..See you at Blackpool..
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| I should think that the vast majority of Bulls fans who were there will have gone home from the game absolutely buzzing, and glad they had one of those rare "I woz there" moments, so attendance wise it can only be all good.
Until it all changed, Leigh bossed us in most areas, but not by much, and some on here are being way too harsh. We were making too many errors, the one-man tactic wasn't working, and Leigh were winning most of the collisions and had plenty running in support in attack, and we were second best. But one thing they never did all game was give up, and despite making it very hard for ourselves, we kept at it.
In fact, we would have gone in at half time only one score behind if not for the outrageous professional foul, which certainly saved 6 points. So despite everything, we were by no means out of the game.
The giveaway try to take it to 6-32 was just a freak, but that was the stage i feared the worst, in recent years that would have signalled yet another 50 point bending.
But, what nobody has so far given us credit for, is it turned out that we had taken far more out of Leigh than they had taken out of us. One by one, their players were starting to run on empty, and suddenly we were on the front foot. It wasn't the plan, of course not, but the reason we scored at will for the last 20 minutes was because Leigh had nothing left, much though they tried, and that can only be because we had beaten them comprehensively in the energy battle.
Nobody can be happy either at getting to 6-32, or in many aspects of the way we played, but we do at least now have a team that is able to live up to our new motto, "we don't quit", and the fact that we were able to and willing to keep on our roll and scrape a draw was, to me at least, a very refreshing change from the catalogue of surrenders once we got a bit behind.
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| Also, I would like to publicly thank the 3 guys who at 6-32 retired to the Premier Club bar, and stayed there. They said they kept hearing cheers, and wondered whether they should go back, but generously chose not to, in case it was all their fault, and they hexed the comeback. Now that's what I call selfless dedication!
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| I don't think it was energy that did us, it was as soon as higham left the pitch you just got a role on and we went one out rugby and couldn't keep hold of the ball! A very good match I'd of taken that before the game! Put Kay and Armstrong back in and I'd be happy!
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| Strange one today, depression and elation all in one game. Thought we lost the collision nearly all the game and were very soft in the tackle compared with Leigh. We obviously learned nothing about Higham and marker defence from last year. Big plus was Clarke but Blythe was shocking. Jimmy's inability to motivate the team from the off is worrying. They should have been tearing up trees from the kick off but looked like they couldn't give a toss.
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| Sorry but that's just plain wrong, at no point did they "look like they couldn't give a toss", I don't mind different points of view but while they looked a poor second best for much of the first hour, one thing they did do is keep going.
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| Quote: oggy123 "I don't think it was energy that did us,...'"
Was mate, you were shot, and that's why every time we got the ball we went to your end and scored. Your lads were out on their feet at the break, but so they should have been as it was a good display. But it told in the end.
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