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[Mark]

Be interesting to see what team comes out, Morgan was free from his ban but didnt play and I tihnk eveyryone agrees our half backs arent clicking 

[wayner]

When you say everyone agrees the half backs aren't clicking - does that include our coach

I guess we will find out on Sunday.

[Mark]

I tihnk I would go with, 

Briers

Anderson

Higham

Morgan

Sargent 

Paga

Stevens

Sidlow

Hartill

Shingler

Rodden

Cox

Beardsworth

Subs

A Lynch

T Porter

T Kelly Duffy 

ANOTHER - It has been Sinclair but he looked injured on Sunday 

 

I know its controversial leaving out Abram and Roby, I want to see other options then Abram and if I was to play him it would be as a sub to cover a number of positions instead of Porter and at the moment althogh Roberts looks solid at the back, Briers seemed to offer more going forward. I don't think Roby is good enough defensively and is too maverick in todays game with his teammates often waiting for the ball while he does his own thing, and he is a penalty machine. I think a lot of people may disagree with me on that player though

 

Out of the young lads, I have been most impressed with Beardsworth, Shingler and Higham up to now and Anderson before weekend but I think he was played out of poisition which made the ommision of Morgan more confusing

 

[wayner]

I think Briers needs to be one of the half backs and I am a fan of Roby and would always want him in the team. I also think Abram's best position is fullback.

 

[Mark]

I said it would be controversial, I can give up Paga in the halves and put Abram at full back and move up briers, This is the third coach that has discarded Roby, he is undoubtly talented but there must be a reason why every coach has left him out? Might be attitude, we dont see what goes on in training 

[Urge]

I'd probably go with something like this:

1  Abram
2  Anderson
3  Higham
4  Lynch
5  Sumner
6  Paga
7  Briers
8  Sinclair
9  Hartill
10 Shingler
11  Rodden
12  Cox
13  Beardsworth

14  Jones/Davies
15  Roby
16  Sidlow
17  Kelly-Duffy 

I can't disagree with you on Roby, but I'm willing to give him a last chance as there's a player in there somewhere if he sorts his discipline out, otherwise I'm happy with Porter.

If Briers/Paga doesn't work then it has to be time for Stevens, although I reckon he'll still go with Abram at 7 again this weekend.

 

[Urge]

Scrap that, get Kenny Baker straight in there.

Thought he was great for us in the Championship. 

 

Edited March 26 by Urge

[Mark]

15 hours ago, Urge said:

Scrap that, get Kenny Baker straight in there.

Thought he was great for us in the Championship. 

 

if he comes with his championship form then a really good signing, worries me he signed for Rochdale and retired and then signed on for Nort Wales and retired last season. Had a game for St Judes i think this year before he signed for us, we needed a bit more experience since Case and Walker left 

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1 hour ago, Mark said:

if he comes with his championship form then a really good signing, worries me he signed for Rochdale and retired and then signed on for Nort Wales and retired last season. Had a game for St Judes i think this year before he signed for us, we needed a bit more experience since Case and Walker left 

I was watching Crusaders when they first brought Kenny in from Ince Rose Bridge. The fans loved him straight away. He always gives 100%.

[Mark]

An entertaining game, Think Baker made a big difference when he came on. Fitness told in the end, I was stood behind the posts and two telling conversations happened, Baker saying what are we doing to stop them keep scoring from teh scrum on the same side and I think it was MIcky Higham coming on after a try saying, stop kicking it high to the biggest man in rugby league!

[Mark R]

1 hour ago, Mark said:

An entertaining game, Think Baker made a big difference when he came on. Fitness told in the end, I was stood behind the posts and two telling conversations happened, Baker saying what are we doing to stop them keep scoring from teh scrum on the same side and I think it was MIcky Higham coming on after a try saying, stop kicking it high to the biggest man in rugby league!

Entertaining second half

First half we were awful

 

[wayner]

I think it was entertaining if you were a neutral fan

We were poor out wide on both flanks defended poorly - was impressed with Rodden, Baker and Brown in the forwards and all the other forwards had a good dig against a strong tackling Goole team. Roby started to find gaps in the second half as Goole tired.

Briers kicking was good - conversions from the touchline were fantastic. 

Still don't think our half backs are creating an awful lot and would still like to see Stevens given some game time.

Its not often a player scores a hat trick and is on the losing side.

[Mark R]

On 31/03/2025 at 18:11, wayner said:

I think it was entertaining if you were a neutral fan

We were poor out wide on both flanks defended poorly - was impressed with Rodden, Baker and Brown in the forwards and all the other forwards had a good dig against a strong tackling Goole team. Roby started to find gaps in the second half as Goole tired.

Briers kicking was good - conversions from the touchline were fantastic. 

Still don't think our half backs are creating an awful lot and would still like to see Stevens given some game time.

Its not often a player scores a hat trick and is on the losing side.

It was good to see George back to some of his best form. He gives 100% and obviously is a confidence player. 

Browny came on with a point to prove and certainly proved it. If he's left out next week it would be a travesty.  

Anderson and Sargent looked dangerous with the ball but both flanks are woefully inexperienced and were exposed defensively.  Maybe the second rowers aren't covering well enough?

We should look to spread it out to the three quarters in attack as we have finally got bags of pace across the field which is something we have lacked in a long time.

We certainly have an exciting young team who will no doubt entertain and frustrate in equal measure.

I guess we will need some patience to allow them to develop and flourish. 

As for the forwards Shingler and Beardsworth look the real deal as exciting prospects. 

From the established players Rodden is clearly a class above whilst I'd rather see one of our many youngsters play over Cox. 

Kenny Baker came on and played well too.