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| Quote: Judder Man "Gildart wasn't quite on the same page as the rest of the team at the weekend, Bennett dropped Percival when he did something similar so I would expect him to do likewise with Gildart and give the 3rd test gig to Percival.'"
Can't see it, Gildart made a few errors in the first half yes, but his defence was solid enough and after the first test i reckon Bennett will give him another go.
For some reason he doesn't seem to rate Percival and the fact he picked a forward ahead of him at the WC and Connor during this series speaks volumes.
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| Quote: UllFC "Connor told the Hull Daily Mail that Bennett gave him a rocket at half time, and that spurred him on. To be fair i'd be scared of an angry Wayne Bennett too!'"
Connor had a poor first half defensively, he was much improved in the 2nd half. I’d bring in Percival for Connor after that 1st half performance. O’loughlin to come back in for Milner if fit. Everyone else keeps their place, stick with the winning side.
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| I thought Gildart (particularly), Connor, Lomax & Williams were all poor first half. I would be happy enough with any of them dropped. I don’t understand what Bennett’s issue is with Percival; with Watkins out he is easily the best centre talent we have. We are weak at HB & FB in depth, so am not sure what better options we have other than Myler to SH & Tomkins to FB. Or Ratchford to FB, Tomkins to SO.
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| I thought Lomax had his best game for England. Saying that I think we need to be setting the bar a little higher in the full back department.
Gildart had a few mistakes in the first half but ironed them out for the second half.
I think Connor has really taken his chance at this level. I think he set the bar high In the mile high game and the first test. He had a quiet in the first half but wasn't poor and had a very good second half.
This 3rd test would have been ideal for Danny Richardson and having him around would have boosted our half back options. I thought Williams has done well and is easily our best defensive half back. I thought Tomkins has improved at 7 over the two tests and would improve much more playing there week in week out.
With Widdop and Gale to come back into the frame I would say our half back options are very strong.
For me Percival is good on a weekly basis but can get shown up in the big games. Watkins made a fool out of him early on last year and he was poor in challenge cup semi and playoff semi.
Gildart and Connor seem to step up in the big games.
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| Ok, Connor mightn't have had a great 1st half but dropping him, come on? Surely the thing to do is to develop him further by continuing to play him at a better level than he's used to.
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| Makinson was the obvious star because of the service he got whereas McGilvery was used as a prop, a little variation would have helped. Can nobody pass to the right?
Keeping the same team would be a missed opportunity to play some of the squad players.
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| Bennett won't be dropping anyone. The only chnages will be due to injury. He says test jerseys have to be earnt and won't be given away in order to be nice. I refer you to my signature.
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| Quote: reffy "Makinson was the obvious star because of the service he got whereas McGilvery was used as a prop, a little variation would have helped. Can nobody pass to the right?
Keeping the same team would be a missed opportunity to play some of the squad players.'"
Connor can pass to the right, and I think is more of a natural Right Centre, than a Left Centre.
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| Quote: reffy "Makinson was the obvious star because of the service he got whereas McGilvery was used as a prop, a little variation would have helped. Can nobody pass to the right?
Keeping the same team would be a missed opportunity to play some of the squad players.'"
We did pass to the right but we kept dropping the ball and dying with the ball, from memory Gildart dropped the ball 3 times Bateman twice and Bateman went solo a couple of times. On the left side it was far more productive with Connor and Whitehead not much dropped ball and were a bit deeper in the attacking line. Williams had more options for a cut out pass on that side as well.
I always find momentum is lost when Bateman can't offload and goes through an arm wrestle routine.
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| Being fair to McGilvray he’s played well. Makinson has been superb but in a way he’s been forced to be. NZ have been avoiding kicking to Jerry with at a guess 90% of kicks heading towards Makinson. All teams tend to be better moving the ball to the left. I think those two combined helped give Makinson the opportunity to shine. He certainly has taken it.
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| Quote: Trainman "Being fair to McGilvray he’s played well. Makinson has been superb but in a way he’s been forced to be. NZ have been avoiding kicking to Jerry with at a guess 90% of kicks heading towards Makinson. All teams tend to be better moving the ball to the left. I think those two combined helped give Makinson the opportunity to shine. He certainly has taken it.'"
Definitely seemed to be an NZ tactic kicking that way, I don't know if they fancied their winger in the air on occasions or was just testing Makinson out. Thought they might have tried the other way after he'd taken it safely so many times.
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| Talk of ‘dropping’ players like Connor, Lomax, Gildart or Williams blows my mind! The level of perfection some people want is astonishing! All four have had some tough moments in this series but have played huge parts in us leading a really good Kiwi side 2-0. In tough, tight games mistakes will be made but it’s how these guys have bounced back that gives them the most credit.
Thankfully Wayne Bennett will keep going with his method of continuity bit we could win an Ashes series 3-0 and people would still pick fault.
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| New Zealand simply weren't good enough, COULD NOT BE PROUDER THAN THE LADS IN WHITE
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| Quote: NickyKiss "Talk of ‘dropping’ players like Connor, Lomax, Gildart or Williams blows my mind! The level of perfection some people want is astonishing! All four have had some tough moments in this series but have played huge parts in us leading a really good Kiwi side 2-0. In tough, tight games mistakes will be made but it’s how these guys have bounced back that gives them the most credit.
Thankfully Wayne Bennett will keep going with his method of continuity bit we could win an Ashes series 3-0 and people would still pick fault.'"
Totally agree with regards to Connor, Lomax and Williams but, Gildart, after being the hero of the first test had a shocker last week, an absolute stinker of a game but, I think that barring injuries/suspensions it will be "as you were" and go for a whitewash.
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| Quote: wrencat1873 "Totally agree with regards to Connor, Lomax and Williams but, Gildart, after being the hero of the first test had a shocker last week, an absolute stinker of a game but, I think that barring injuries/suspensions it will be "as you were" and go for a whitewash.'"
He made a couple of poor errors in the first half but bounced back pretty well in the second half. Most of the play went down the left granted so there wasn’t much impact with the ball but we can’t speak about dropping him after the performance he put in at Hull. I obviously watch him week in week out and Sunday is the first time I’ve ever seen him make a few silly errors in one game, he’s usually really dependable.
He deserves another crack IMO.
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