No appearance from our fake French Aussie Bazza today.

The complete inability of Sneyd to even try to create anything with a team completely at his mercy shows exactly why he'll never play for a top club here or in the NRL.

I'd say quality half backs who've ever played the game would have more in their locker than just cluelessly booting it into touch with their sides ahead by plenty and the opposition having already clocked off.

It's called game management. Maybe if widnes had more of it they'd have stayed in SL.

Is JonnoTheIntelectuallyChallenged proven to be a Widnes supporter tho as his posts are suspiciously similar to those of certain other poster/s on here.

But +1 on all the responses regarding game management. With Catalans getting a right royal spanking and some of their thuggish players like Gregory Bird it's entirely professional for Hull players to be winding down the clock by kicking into touch. Last thing you need in the last 20 minutes of a game is to be decapitated by a cheap high shot etc from a player of a team who've been nothing short of humiliated.

You may have a point, but it wouldn't have been Bird last night.

Sneyd's kicking played a big part in them "clocking off." It choked the life out of Catalans. And Sneyd created lots of stuff on the night. It was a clinic in how to close out a game in knock out rugby. He slowed everything down to his pace and controlled every aspect of that second half.

Changing the subject away from Sneyd for a moment. Early in the thread someone mentioned Catalans tactic of trapping the ball in the scrum to try to win a penalty. I don't know if anyone has noticed it before but for years (perhaps even since Radford took over) we have a system where the scrum half will raise his arm and then drop it to indicate to his teammates that the ball is out. I don't remember us conceding penalties for offsides at the scrum whilst doing this. Indeed Catalans tried it last night a couple of times and it was fruitless. However I can't remember ever seeing another team use the same thing, which I always find surprising because it works so well.

Clearly the guy didn't see many wins for Widnes last year so was just happy enough to see some tries.

Being a Widnes fan, he will have seen plenty of tries. Granted, not many of them will have been scored by his team but, there was never a shortage of points scored in Widnes' games.
He does use very similar turns of phrase as Jean though

Quote: wrencat1873 "Being a Widnes fan, he will have seen plenty of tries. Granted, not many of them will have been scored by his team but, there was never a shortage of points scored in Widnes' games. He does use very similar turns of phrase as Jean though https://youtu.be/ARXy5liEA-s

Quote: wrencat1873 "Being a Widnes fan, he will have seen plenty of tries. Granted, not many of them will have been scored by his team but, there was never a shortage of points scored in Widnes' games. He does use very similar turns of phrase as Jean though https://youtu.be/ARXy5liEA-s

I do hope they manage to fit some highlights of last nights game

When you free?

Man of steel elect Austin kicking repeatedly for touch but no doubt that will be inspirational because hes an aussie

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Have Hull FC announced the attendance ?