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| Those stars don’t spark confidence no but equally it was a tough, aggressive, tight game with defences for both uncompromising. I don’t think it was a game particularly for high meters so I’m not paying any attention to them whatsoever. I think you can get far too caught up on how many meters a forward makes when there’s so much more to a forwards game than that. Sometimes the tac might be to take it up and hit the floor, quick PTB and get a roll on. Get the opposition on the back foot to create space and chaos in their defensive line. Metres made is a huge red herring stat.
We got the win, we looked improved and I don’t think any one player had a poor game. Singleton isn’t inspiring but he’s solid, will take the goon balls in and is decent in defence. He’s exactly the type of prop any successful side needs IMO. Whilst he won’t tear it up or knock the opposing teams pack into next week; he won’t let the side down. That being said when Havard is back I don’t expect to see him starting or even in the 17 every week.
Mago was impressive. Reminded me a lot of Adam Cuthbertson when he first signed for Leeds. He just needs to reign in looking for the offload or at least make better decisions to retain the ball. It’s probably a case of trying too hard as opposed to stupidity.
Ellis was solid, pretty much like Singleton. Didn’t do anything wrong, didn’t set the world alight either. No criticism from me.
The rest gave performances I’d expect them to. Like I said on another thread, the real marker - especially for our pack - will come against Leeds. Are we capable of dominating against a strong pack? Jury is still out for me and I think it will be for a while yet.
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Wire_91 wrote:its your first final in about 8 years and now you ravin and rantin about it F**k off, and ill be going old trafford tomoz cheering on the saints and ill be writing on this forum givin you loads of shi* when your drying you eyes and the wire fan will be here handing out the tissues in the thousands, thats if you do take that many fans cause now it looks like its your fans who have jumped on the band wagon now your in a final, this time last year there was only 1000 people in the jjb and now its fillin up cause youve won the league hahaha proper true supporters you are:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_27542.jpg |
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Singleton 8 for 70m 19 tackles
Ellis 8 for 61m 30 tackles
Byrne 7 for 82m 19 tackles
Mago 10 for 91m 9 tackles
Havard 19 for 123m 21 tackles
Partington 16 for 120m 23 tackles
Surely Partington best numbers in his senior career. Shows how the bench changed the game.
Not many prop forward groups I’d swap for our guys in the league this season. Probably top 3/4 group (Saints, Catalan, Hull probably up there).
Was probably bottom 2/3 last year.
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| I’d be sad to see Ollie P leave. The lad is Wigan through and through but you can’t keep them all I suppose. You add Cooper in to the mix next season and it’s as good a prop rotation as I can remember us having for a long while. They’ll be fighting each other and you can already see that. It was a statement performance from Partington and on that form why couldn’t he got for Mago’s place, Byrne’s place etc. He spoke so well after the game as well, saying how by him playing well, it can hopefully force others to do so and if he still doesn’t get picked then so be it and he’ll still be doing a job.
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| Quote: NSW "Cas away
Singleton 8 for 70m 19 tackles
Ellis 8 for 61m 30 tackles
Byrne 7 for 82m 19 tackles
Mago 10 for 91m 9 tackles
Havard 19 for 123m 21 tackles
Partington 16 for 120m 23 tackles
Surely Partington best numbers in his senior career. Shows how the bench changed the game.
Not many prop forward groups I’d swap for our guys in the league this season. Probably top 3/4 group (Saints, Catalan, Hull probably up there).
Was probably bottom 2/3 last year.'"
And that in itself is quite a thing, considering where we were last season.
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| Great numbers again from the front row. Havard we've come to expect (which in itself is ridiculous for a 21 year old prop!) but Partington at 100+ too is a great effort. Byrne and Mago having a big impact with 11 and 9 metres per carry.
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| Quote: moto748 "And that in itself is quite a thing, considering where we were last season.'"
Our pack seems to be getting better week on week.
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