Quote: CW8 "Nothing frustrates me more than when we have the opposition back pedalling with a fast play or 2,we are moving the ball and then it comes to Hughes or Jason Clark, move over. It must be a huge relief to the opposition, all that's going to happen is run in and take the tackle, the defence gets a chance to re set.
Don't get me wrong I like Jack Hughes as a player but both of them is just really negative. Jack Hughes would be a good loose forward and would be a better option in taking more carries to relieve the props than charnley and matty Ashton! He's also better in defence than jason Clark.'"
What frustrate me more is cooper n hill taking a drive in the 4th tackle !!! I can understand that our wingers and centres take the ball in early to give the props a rest but we do this from the first ti last set tackle 1/2 winger centre drive off our line tackles 3 and 4 is when we drive it in with our props and 5th tackle look to attack. Rugby may have changed from when I played but it was 1st 2nd props maybe 3rd but 4th n 5th was where we looked to put moves on to move the ball.
I get the offload it tires the defences but if it's a "tactic" why is it almost a surprise with half the team getting ready for the next set ? Surely if we are going to be offloading as much we should have 2nd phase plays its normally just lark or Austin making an extra few meters n making themselves unavailable for the next ptb.
Ratchford Austin clark cooper currie ashton king lineham charnley Philbin are the only players I would keep hill maybe but more from the bench the rest for me could be replaced and we would be no worse off. Whilst we can be one prices ability he can also only work with what he has, we dont know the recruitment process at the club. But I think that how we identify potential signings and approach them is not as good as it could be, luckily he went to wigan but we reportedly missed out on burgess and Barbara prior to that. We cannot get them all but we need to look at why they opted for saints n wigan putting aside the likelihood to win the gf.
We massively operate our squad there are too many average at best players. New coach has to come in and give the squad and club a face lift