Match thread: Championship Round 15. Halifax v Featherstone Rovers. Sunday 14th July 2024.

[Featherstonerovers2000]

I think turner will miss out and Eden in 

[haskey]

Where would you play Eden

[marklaspalmas]

40 minutes ago, Featherstonerovers2000 said:

I think turner will miss out and Eden in 

Because you've heard he's injured?

That would be the only reason for thinking that.

[Featherstonerovers2000]

58 minutes ago, marklaspalmas said:

Because you've heard he's injured?

That would be the only reason for thinking that.

Was more what I saw when walking past training this week but turner was at training but only saw Eden in the halves in left vs right 

[The Blues Ox]

12 hours ago, haskey said:

Where would you play Eden

Lock Lane.

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[POR]

On 12/07/2024 at 12:53, Featherstonerovers2000 said:

Maybe two loan players coming in with only naming a 19 man squad 

OUR old mate Fishwick in Robins 21 but didn't make the 17 so wonder if he will make a surprise appearance on Sunday at the Shay

[haskey]

Now now Oxy , not like you to be so derogatory

[The Blues Ox]

18 hours ago, haskey said:

Now now Oxy , not like you to be so derogatory

I do jest but I honestly thought he would be a good signing for you. He did better for us than some of our fans made out but he is clearly having trouble adapting to playing part time rugby for whatever reason.

[sentoffagain2]

1 hour ago, The Blues Ox said:

I do jest but I honestly thought he would be a good signing for you. He did better for us than some of our fans made out but he is clearly having trouble adapting to playing part time rugby for whatever reason.

   Eden has probably been responsible for letting in four or five tries.We win the game at Sheffield without him dropping a late kick.And he has tended to leave his wing position to defend near the middle leaving the centre with two or three to mark.Ford left him out last Sunday and we beat Haven 66-0  and Wynne played very well so i wouldn't drop him.Haven played well yesterday against Toulouse only losing 24-34 .I have changed my mind about today's game with Fax.Having gone through which matches we would win and lose 3 times i have selected Fax to beat us.However with Reynolds back and if Turner even 90% fit play in the halves i think we can win.The fact that Fax were well beaten at Sheffield shows they may have not made the progress i expected them to after a slow start.

[Fevrover]

23 minutes ago, sentoffagain2 said:

   Eden has probably been responsible for letting in four or five tries.We win the game at Sheffield without him dropping a late kick.And he has tended to leave his wing position to defend near the middle leaving the centre with two or three to mark.Ford left him out last Sunday and we beat Haven 66-0  and Wynne played very well so i wouldn't drop him.Haven played well yesterday against Toulouse only losing 24-34 .I have changed my mind about today's game with Fax.Having gone through which matches we would win and lose 3 times i have selected Fax to beat us.However with Reynolds back and if Turner even 90% fit play in the halves i think we can win.The fact that Fax were well beaten at Sheffield shows they may have not made the progress i expected them to after a slow start.

They usually raise their game against  or so it seems lol.

[POR]

Here we go

[sentoffagain2]

        That team looks strong enough to regain our winning record at The Shay.No problem with Eden at full back.If Turner is not quite right i can see why he is on the bench.Reynolds can do the ball work and maybe Aekins can use his pace and eye for an opening more of a strike player.Prefer Josh in the centre for his defence but can see we are short in the forwards so he is needed there.Has anyone been impressed by Nakabui ?i expected a bit more from him having stepped down from SL.

[coolie]

Think this is 2 points in the bag

Halifax been poor

You'll win by 16+

[haskey]

Trouble with Eden , is can he catch a high ball?

[Phil Briscoe]

We look a bit light off the bench that would be my main worry. 

[The Phantom Horseman]

Got to be happy enough with the two points. 9.5 out of 10 for effort, 6 or 7 out of 10 for performance levels, and about 3 out of 10 for discipline again! But with a scratch team out, the two points were all that mattered.

[Fevrover]

8 minutes ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

Got to be happy enough with the two points. 9.5 out of 10 for effort, 6 or 7 out of 10 for performance levels, and about 3 out of 10 for discipline again! But with a scratch team out, the two points were all that 

Listened on Rovers TV and it sounded like defence was better again.

[roversspud]

Defence was pretty good. Fax only scored when we were down to 12, but discipline is still a problem for us. Get that right, and we can be competitive again. Attack was a bit clunky, but was Ben's first game back and I'm sure will improve.

[RobLambert]

1 hour ago, roversspud said:

Defence was pretty good. Fax only scored when we were down to 12, but discipline is still a problem for us. Get that right, and we can be competitive again. Attack was a bit clunky, but was Ben's first game back and I'm sure will improve.

Anyway...

Yeah agree with the above.  There seemed a definite improvement in defence particularly with reducing the amount of offloads.  For me half the battle with the attack is a quick ptb but we don't seem to even try to play it quickly or in some cases look too knackered to get up quickly.

Plenty to be optimistic about given the players to come back........  

[The Phantom Horseman]

It's been noticeable in interviews with Ford and also with players in recent weeks that after the shocking defensive performances at home to Swinton and York in particular that the emphasis has been almost entirely on sorting out the defence, and I think that has shown in recent games, we have continued to look clunky with ball in hand but have turned in three pretty good defensive performances in a row (even in Toulouse where we only conceded 3 tries and 2 were when down to 12 men).

I think that's fair enough as something had to be done after those very poor defensive performances. We will shortly be facing our toughest period of the season, after Doncaster at home next week (which of course we can't take for granted by any means) we face teams above us in four of our following five games, and three of them are away from home. On recent form Wakefield, Bradford and Sheffield would all be favourites to beat us but I reckon if we can get wins from three of those six games we will have done pretty well, especially as we will have key players banned or injured throughout that period.

If we're still in with a shout of the top 6 after those next 6 games we have a run-in which whilst not easy would at least give us a chance. In terms of making the play-offs it could come down to the very last game of the season away to York who look to have really found their form now and look sure to be top 6 challengers.

[sentoffagain2]

    Having seen the team i would have gone to the game but i had already accepted an invitation to see England win the Euros party.That turned out well..

[Fevrover]

11 minutes ago, sentoffagain2 said:

    Having seen the team i would have gone to the game but i had already accepted an invitation to see England win the Euros party.That turned out well..

At least one of our teams won , good win that at Halifax.

[sentoffagain2]

11 minutes ago, Fevrover said:

At least one of our teams won , good win that at Halifax.

  If we can keep defending better and with Reynolds and Turner in the halves we could manage a play off place.I would love to be proved wrong about us finishing 7th or 8th.

[Fevrover]

47 minutes ago, sentoffagain2 said:

  If we can keep defending better and with Reynolds and Turner in the halves we could manage a play off place.I would love to be proved wrong about us finishing 7th or 8th.

I'll second that ☺.