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Yes. End of thread.

Dear me, the irony of the "question" you asked is starting to become rather apparent. I haven't got any more time to waste on a keyboard warrior who I know for a fact, if he sees me on Sunday, will not say a word. If you really were looking for an answer, no, I'm not thick. No doubt Eagleraider will be along in the morning to close the thread and pretend you never said anything. Night.

It's ok, it was snickers if I remember correctly, and he's allergic to nuts!

"Are you thick or what?" is hardly just a question, is it? It shows a complete lack of respect, and if I said it to you you'd be down on me like a ton of bricks.

Is there really any need for that? An honest mistake and you resort to name calling/personal insults and implying I'm under the influence, add that to the fact you didn't actually say you'd play that same team, you just said you'd have Woodcock in instead of Haley. You're supposed to be an adult, grow up.

No disrespect to John Coleman at all, like you say he has stepped up a few leagues, but I wouldn't call his performance at Oldham a good one, particularly defensively. He is a good goal kicker, but to kick goals someone needs to score the tries, and that's why Menzie and Tangi must start in the centres. I suppose in hindsight, presuming he's fully fit, Woodcock will have to start to cover the goal kicking base, but this would be extremely harsh on Thackeray. You've contributed a few times to the thread now Eagletarian but still not posted your 17! Let's 'ave it

His goal kicking is top notch from what we've seen so far, his try was a walk in. He doesn't contribute enough in my opinion, certainly not to get in the team ahead of Menzie or Tangi.

Baffling. The only reason he's not in my team is because Ashley Thackeray played a blinder at Oldham, and if he doesn't retain his place he's going to wonder what he has to do, no relfection on Jonny.

Would you want to tell Ged he's not in the team?

Mitch, Tangi and Brendon can all kick goals.

Yeah, was thinking that, or maybe McDonald.

Now we've had a look at the whole squad, barring injured players, what would be your team for the first league game? I'd go with: Thackeray Barnett Yere Ropati Taulapapa Lindsay Brooks Howieson Cook Stringer Szostak Corcoran Green Subs: Hepworth Barlow Exton Haley This is presuming Alex Rowe gets a ban, I think his disciplinary was today.

It wasn't that good, and yes it was freezing.

There was a blatent forward pass in the build up to their 4th try on second viewing, and can you actually believe some of the Oldham fans around us were protesting about the penalty in which we kicked the winning points from?

I'm not standing next to Basil.

Absolutely fantastic.

Sorry mate, we're through

Especially those who managed to bag themselves a prawn sandwich ticket, eh Basil? The majority of the Oldham fans were good humoured and had a laugh, but there were some muppets. The fella who came out with, "You haven't even got your own ground" even his own fans couldn't believe the irony! And his missus (I assume) was the one who hadn't quite grasped the human anatomy yet, and thought your shoulder rested on your eyebrows.

:lol: I didn't say anywhere it wasn't a good result, a win's a win, but anyone who thinks the performance was up to scratch is deluded, ball handling and defence was woeful. How many knock ons? How many missed tackles? Oldham deserved a draw imo, but we're not complaining. The feeling has just returned to my feet. Oh, and Hicks was a joke again, equally incompetent for both sides.

Just got back, exceptionally quick write up cos I'm knackered To be honest I thought we were poor tonight, really poor. How the defence can go from as solid as it was against Halifax to as bad as it was tonight is baffling. Yes we had a largely second string side out, but we still didn't perform to our potential, particularly in defence. The two Irish lads especially were found wanting in defence, and 3 of their 4 tries came down our right hand side. Honourable mentions to Ashley Thackeray and Alex Rowe, the only two to come out with any real credit in my opinion, maybe along with Sam Barlow, especially Ash, even if Jonny is fit for the next game Ash deserves to keep his place at full back. Menzie and Richie Barnett never really got into the game.

http://www.totalrl.com/index.php?showtopic=197630

Sweet, see you all there.

Cheers Riggy.