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[Flannerz]

Full score updates and discussion of the game against Doncaster at http://www.loverugby....com/livescores

[Keith T]

Full match commentary on Radio Cumbria but it is not very good lsitening as Town seem to be back to their old bad habits of losing the ball too easily and rank bad tackling. 16 - 0 down and no sign of any better news.

[wonky]

We have been appalling. Falling off tackles, no idea near there line, and criminally olstrum getting put into touch on 1st tackle which they scored off next set. All good work from last week ruined within 40 mins of rugby. Can't see anything than a heavy defeat. Hope I'm wrong

[wonky]

16-6 Patrick try

[wonky]

24-6 shocking build momentum then fall off tackles

[wonky]

Sorry 20-6

[Keith T]

Our Chairman sounds absolutely gutted by this performance so I hope he goes in to the dressing room and tells them all what he thinks of them. It sounds like we are only going to see the best of Town at home this season!!! Sadly losing every away game will not encourage ex-fans to come back to the club.

[Keith T]

Well we got a bonus point which apparently we didn't deserve with a final score of 26 - 16. The last few minutes we seemed to put more effort in to getting a bonus point than we had trying to get the win earlier. Even the Chairman was saying that Town were out enthused which is disappointing to hear.

[wonky]

Well a bonus point was exactly that, a bonus point for our travels and certainly not the performance. We were terrible for 70 mins and only got going when we sensed a bonus was up for grabs. We twice scored and off the kick off knocked on and they scored off that set. Not good enough. Our kicking game was non existent and as soon as holt is available he should be in for bamber. Olstrum had a nightmare and the forwards just didn't make an impact.the bottom line is if you can't tackle then the opposition will score however bad that are, Doncaster weren't exactly world beaters, we were just very poor.

[rugbyman]

Just accept you were beaten on the day, you can only play what is put in front of you, and not talking about players missing but the lads who came in did the business against a very big Workington team.

This is a long season, you played very well last week and enjoyed a good win. there will be times in the season when teams dont play 100% every week, but you just brush yourself down and start again.

Enjoy the rest of the season.

Edited by rugbyman, 27 March 2011 - 05:01 PM.

[OttO]

Well, at least we came away with a bonus point.

[Arkel]

Doncaster weren't exactly world beaters, we were just very poor.

Considering we had at least 6 first teamers out (2 injured and 4 on holiday) and we suffered injuries to
a further 6 players during the game including one of our halfbacks and first choice fullback, both
centres and a winger I thought we did alright.
And, yes, you were poor but I'm presuming you had an off day.......

[bobg]

Poor show, more concerted effort needed, better team won.Nothing else to say.

[Cato89]

I dont think it was a bad result. If we can go unbeaten at home ,sneak a few away wins and if we get beat, get a bonus point .I think then ,we would be up at the top, dont be too disheartend by today result....long long way to go yet.

Up The Town!

[wonky]

I dont think it was a bad result. If we can go unbeaten at home ,sneak a few away wins and if we get beat, get a bonus point .I think then ,we would be up at the top, dont be too disheartend by today result....long long way to go yet.

Up The Town!
It wasn't the result that was the problem it was the performance

[wonky]

It wasn't the result that was the problem it was the performance, we turned over far too much ball on the 1 st tackle and our defence was non existent on 4 of there tries. And as for getting bonus points, that won't get us promoted, as we will probably need to travel in the playoffs and we don't seem capable of going away and beating the better teams.
On a side note the team arrived at exact same time as we did, and after that journey my legs were still achey and stiff at half time so I'm sure the lads weren't feeling 100%. We need to put a couple of wins together and our next 2 fixtures is perfect opportunity before we play haven.

[dkw]

Considering we had at least 6 first teamers out (2 injured and 4 on holiday) and we suffered injuries to
a further 6 players during the game including one of our halfbacks and first choice fullback, both
centres and a winger I thought we did alright.
And, yes, you were poor but I'm presuming you had an off day.......

I thought Donny did well, but I think what Wonky is getting at is you didnt do anything spectacular, and didnt need to. Just did the basics very well, and opened up in our 20 when needed. As for Town, I was going to write a nice long paragraph or 2 to say what went wrong, but I can sum it up in one sentence:-
We were ######, we didnt want it as much and some of the player need to take a long hard look at themselves.

One more thing though, Donny`s stadium is superb, a fantastic modern ground with excellent facilities. Everytime I went to the bar, the toilet or whatever I couldnt help thinking we could have something similar to this, although on a smaller scale if it wasnt for certain peoples narrow minded views.

Edited by dkw, 28 March 2011 - 11:35 AM.

[Oneday]

.... One more thing though, Donny`s stadium is superb, a fantastic modern ground with excellent facilities. Everytime I went to the bar, the toilet or whatever I couldnt help thinking we could have something similar to this, although on a smaller scale if it wasnt for certain peoples narrow minded views.

Sad but true.

As for the match so we played ******** and still won the second half. Doesn't that give us some hope ?

[Keith T]

Sad but true.

As for the match so we played ******** and still won the second half. Doesn't that give us some hope ?

That depends on the amount of commitment shown by the 17 people wearing the shirts on the field, Oneday. As the coach said on the radio yesterday when they go away it's like a different mindset even though they are still playing on a green bit of grass with white lines painted on it.

This league is a hard league this year and we think, no, we know, that we have a squad of players capable of being in the top three or four, with the right application and commitment. They showed that sort of application and commitment against Leigh and Oldham at home and Haven, twice, away so why are they not doing it away from home. Is it a case of out of sight (of the fans) out of mind with some players?

[wonky]

That depends on the amount of commitment shown by the 17 people wearing the shirts on the field, Oneday. As the coach said on the radio yesterday when they go away it's like a different mindset even though they are still playing on a green bit of grass with white lines painted on it.

This league is a hard league this year and we think, no, we know, that we have a squad of players capable of being in the top three or four, with the right application and commitment. They showed that sort of application and commitment against Leigh and Oldham at home and Haven, twice, away so why are they not doing it away from home. Is it a case of out of sight (of the fans) out of mind with some players?

there were quite a few town fans sat near the pitch yesterday keith,and we all travelled a long way to watch a p*** poor performance,but for some reason some of them were jumping about at full time as if we'd just got a super league francise, and if the players see that the fans are happy with a poor bonus point then they are going to believe that it is acceptable.if we had played with 70% of the commitment and passion as we did last week,we would have won the game,truth is i would say it was more like 15% to 20%.