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| Quote Droopy="Droopy"After comparing the 2 sides before kick off and expecting a KR team with a point to prove after their Cas match I thought we would do well to even come close tonight so I left the game immensely proud and upbeat about the season ahead.
Powell post match comments are right, the boys are a superb team, showing up for each other and giving everything till the end.
Pleasing points for me…we looks so dangerous when attacking out wide, our defence out wide has also massively improved. We can compete with a depleted squad against one of the biggest packs in the league, we have more quality in depth than I first thought.
Special mentions to Jowitt, Storton, Pratt and Smith tonight who had fantastic games.
Finally, I’m not sure who had a worse game the ref or Jarrod W Hargreaves. Both were awful.'" The ref had the worst performance but it was close. |
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| Quote Droopy="Droopy"After comparing the 2 sides before kick off and expecting a KR team with a point to prove after their Cas match I thought we would do well to even come close tonight so I left the game immensely proud and upbeat about the season ahead.
Powell post match comments are right, the boys are a superb team, showing up for each other and giving everything till the end.
Pleasing points for me…we looks so dangerous when attacking out wide, our defence out wide has also massively improved. We can compete with a depleted squad against one of the biggest packs in the league, we have more quality in depth than I first thought.
Special mentions to Jowitt, Storton, Pratt and Smith tonight who had fantastic games.
Finally, I’m not sure who had a worse game the ref or Jarrod W Hargreaves. Both were awful.'"
Agree with all that, but on the last part would have Touchie Griffiths as the worst on ground, did not even see Burgess in touch, never saw a forward pass or a high shot. |
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Oliver Pratt was trending on Twitter last night after the game.
He's getting noticed and rightly so.
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| Quote Big lads mate="Big lads mate"The only thing between the teams way that doylam with the whistle, amazes me their interpretation of the game'"
Don't want to ref bash, but he made some shocking decisions.....
Anyone remember the Kelepi tackled without the ball in the in-goal at Wire and he just played on?? |
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| Quote burtonsrlfc="burtonsrlfc"First time that I can remember, coming away from a game delighted with the team performance, albeit miserable that we lost. Effort and skill all 100%. Special mention yet again to Mike who just isn't human with the mins and workrate he produces!'"
For me, McMeeken is the difference. With him playing 70/80 mins a game in the front row it’s essentially like having 2 international quality players in the team. How long he can do it for, I don’t really know. When Rodwell and Atoni are back that’ll take the pressure off him hopefully but he’s unreal is the lad. Genuinely international class who if he carries on playing like this will walk into the test team against the Aussies later in the year. |
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| Quote Trojan Horse="Trojan Horse"Exactly, a lucky bounce off a crossbar was the difference.
I said as soon as the ball was passed to Max it should have gone left to Russell. Max was under all sorted of pressure to get that kick away.
But you know what. The players should all be praised after that. We will beat many teams playing like that this season. Keep it up because it’s working.'"
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I got that lost in the game and the way we were playing last night, I actually forgot the players that we were missing. What is really pleasing is no matter who is on the field, we are playing very much the same, perhaps not as clinical and definitely miss a bit of punch in the front row but it`s a sign of a very well coached side and more so a sign of quality outside of our first choice 17. Years gone by, if we were missing 7 or 8 first team players, we would be getting well beat by most sides.
I can`t help but think if we were as close to KR were to full strength last night, we would have been a good 10 points better than them.
On a side note, how good are we to watch with the ball?
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I went into the game and with the players missing that we had I was hoping that we would give it our best and keep the score respectable but came away thinking we could have won that, regarding Hargreaves, what a waste of money he’s proved so far, I’m 64 and could make more yards, they should have kept Storton, what a signing he’s been, outstanding
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I was unsure how dropping into the Championship would be for us but it's really improved our expansive rugby. Our movement of the ball along the line has been superb so far.
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| Quote Butcher="Butcher"Gutted. I thought the scoreline was a fair reflection of the game, but wondered if we might just nick it at the end. Rovers defended really well and found a way to win, but we can learn a lot from that. Some impressions from the game (not conclusions about players, before anyone jumps on):
Jowitt really is top drawer - potentially international class. Just thinking about a thread on here with @AnotherCasFan, in which they were sure Niall Evalds was a better player than Jowitt. You only have to put them against each other like tonight to see the difference. If Reece Walsh had thrown that ball to Johnstone you'd never hear the end of it. And what did Evalds do on the ball? Where was he during Oli Pratt's try? Jowitt was fantastic start to finish, barring a wayward kick. But he's got enough credit with me to miss a few of those.
Walmsley isn't physically strong enough. He made some great runs in the second half, but if there's ever a body in front of him he gets whacked then dragged backwards. He's a superb finisher and drier weather will suit his game better, but so much of Super League is grunt and 'arm wrestling', and he just physically isn't powerful enough.
What an athlete Oli Pratt is. The kind of player you look forward to watching each week. Caused them problems all night.
Hall did Hall things but was apparently chucking up in the toilets at half time.
Not much to learn about TJ is there. They contained him to making hit ups all night, aside from his try which he took well.
Lino needs Trueman. He defended well tonight and he looked okay on the ball, but his kicking just wasn't good enough.
On that showing, Olly Russell isn't up to it. He looked just like he did at Huddersfield - steady and toothless. Plus a couple of daft moments in the first half - a ball steal and a dead ball kick - that put us under pressure. I haven't written him off after one competitive game, but we need better than that.
McMeeken and Pitts worked their s off again. Look forward to seeing the stats again, but they're carrying our middle so far.
Doyle was steady. Defended well, passed accurately, didn't make any mistakes, but also never threatened Hull KR, who had two very threatening hookers in their team.
Uele did okay but definitely won't be skittling defenders like he did in the championship. Quick play the balls though.
Storton took some monster carries in the second half.
Honestly barely noticed Croft. Didn't do anything wrong, and I know a lot of fans really love him but for me he's just filling a gap at the moment.
Thought Vagana went okay. Still too slow to retreat and a few gaps opened up around him which fast teams will punish, especially in summer.
Similar for Faatili. He's got plenty of potential but let's be honest, at this level he's not going to replicate what we've seen on his highlights reel.
Harvey Smith looked good out of dummy half, but I'd like to see him use his speed and run more. There were a couple of chances for him to do that but he played it safe and passed to first receiver. I also don't think he won one collision in defence and that worries me.
Overall that didn't feel like our game to lose. We're down on troops and still staying all the way with proven Super League teams, and that's what good teams do. We'll be alright, but we need a rest and a handful of our starting side back fit. After that we'll be grand. More confident next Saturday.'"
I agree that Jowitt has looked really good in his first two games , and was better than Evalds yesterday . However , at the time of writing Evalds was a proven SL FB , Jowitt had performed well at SL level but not to the standards we have seen from Evalds in the past .
That said , if he continues to improve then he will be right up there with the best of them , but it is still early days . Perhaps I didn't give him the recognition he deserves , and although I don't think you can judge someone on a season in the Championship , he has certainly improved considerably and looks the real deal at the moment . Good luck to him in the future (except against Cas of course  ) |
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