Quote: Hangerman2 " continued so far this year, and no champion team ever has those stats.'"
Quote: Hangerman2 "I agree 100% with your analysis, Watson looks like he has signed conner to be the golden bullet that makes our style work rather than trying to change the style. I anticipate , like you do, that we will be playing the same 'pressure' rugby, which is great at getting us into the oppositions 20 but last year wasn't great at getting us over the line. Towards the end of last season other sides really worked us out and we spent vast amounts of time in the oppositions 20 with no success as once our set moves were accounted for we were easy to defend against. Personally i don't think we have signed the right players, we need pace in the spine and we have signed a player who is one of the slowest around along with the jorneyman Peats. If you look at our 1, 6, 7 and 9 there really isn't any pace there at all other than Pryce, who really is not a halfback at all, just an outside back who can kick.
it's frustrating that although we have a good squad we always seem to lose the best players from the previous year, Two years ago you could argue that was Aiden Sezer and Kenny Edwards, last year it would be hard to argue with the fact that Danny Levi and Ricky Leutele were the best (with the exception possibly of Tui). For me, we have an awesome pack, but we have an ageing backline and a really slow spine, and although i think we will have a lot of success with that in week to week rugby i don't see us winning anything with the spine we have, we are very very one dimensional. We often scored more tries in the forwards last year than the backs and that has continued so far this year, and no champion team ever has those stats.'"
Yes Tui and Conner are very much alike, both have all the skills but absolutely no pace at all of the mark, Levi is a big loss to us and i have seen nothing as yet to suggest anything is going to change from last year. I have just been watching the HKR Leigh game, different sort of football to what we have become accustomed to. I well remember Salford just destroying us last year, surely Watson learned something from last season. We have to hope so.
