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Offline MrsHavenWarrior

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on: 06 May 2018, 04:47:32 pm
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Haven 22 - N W Crusaders 25

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Reply #1 on: 06 May 2018, 04:56:36 pm
Very poor performance defiantly thinking of next week I think and forgot about today

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Reply #2 on: 06 May 2018, 05:08:34 pm
Not gonna slate lads just not at races today, missed jessy and Tilley but as said probably one eye on next week  never mind 👎🏻
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Reply #3 on: 06 May 2018, 05:20:31 pm
Quote from: MrsHavenWarrior on 06 May 2018, 04:47:32 pm
Full Time: 
Haven 22 - N W Crusaders 25

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Game management again not good. Should have took the 2 at 12-12
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Reply #4 on: 06 May 2018, 05:20:51 pm
Unacceptable performance right across the park, it was like watching the Haven if old. They just thought they had to turn up to win. We were totally outplayed by a team who came to play rugby.

We dropped off tackle after tackle, and some of our decision making was shocking.

At 12-12 we had a simple kick for a 14-12 lead, decided to run it, and 6 tackles later they were scoring after we coughed up possession.

Ref was shocking as most are in this league, but you know after 10 mins what they are going to be like, and should manage the game accordingly. To top it off we even got penalised when in posssesion for bad mouthing the Ref.

Next week will take a lot out of the players,then we have to travel to Skolars the week after, where we sometimes struggle.

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Reply #5 on: 06 May 2018, 05:23:47 pm
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Reply #6 on: 06 May 2018, 05:27:03 pm
Poor day at the office, but the club won't get another penny off me while the scum the club are employing the stewards that they are.  You have just lost three diehards.

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Reply #7 on: 06 May 2018, 05:28:40 pm
Absolutely  abysmal - too slow at ptb and backing up. Tackling today was terrible and on field decisions were wrong- should have kicked the points on offer..Shadwells were more up for it than we were so a bad day in the sun and points thrown away. Was thinking about a trip to France ( as a treat for the missus of course) but on today's showing I'll save my euros for something worthwhile.

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Reply #8 on: 06 May 2018, 05:31:57 pm
Bad day - we looked like we're beginning to believe our own hype.
Tackling was awful. Need to knuckle down

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Reply #9 on: 06 May 2018, 05:44:27 pm
Shambolic defending. Against Rochdale you could count on 1 hand how many tackles we missed. Today you would have needed a calculator. As for one eye on next week the league is our bread and butter. A jolly in the south of France should have been the last thing on our minds.

With hindsight we should have taken the 2 to put us 14-12 up but at the time we were on a roll and should have kicked on from there. Once we bombed a try and they went up field and scored you knew that was it. Nothing came off. Credit to NWC. Fully deserved it. Played well. Threw the ball aboit. Offloaded in the tackle which is something we never looked like doing. Very dissapointed
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Reply #10 on: 06 May 2018, 05:46:28 pm
Quote from: whitey12 on 06 May 2018, 05:27:03 pm
Poor day at the office, but the club won't get another penny off me while the scum the club are employing the stewards that they are.  You have just lost three diehards.


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Reply #11 on: 06 May 2018, 06:18:07 pm
Worst thing about that performance is that the club are trying really hard to bring fans back and sponsors new & old to the club and then we get that performance.

Clearly Coward shouldn’t have played, missed his fair Share of tackles as did Howarth. It’s no good putting shoulder into them if they gonna bounce of you and run past.

Forster didn’t want us to take the 2, so them 2 easy penalties either side of half time that we turn d down and would have taken us 4 points into the lead is his decision and fault. That we have a pen away, dropped the bomb and lay them score was just the salt being rubbed in from that terrible decision making.

Bad day but we are young and will learn. We need to try and keep the positivity around the club and show over next couple of weeks that today was a one off
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Reply #12 on: 06 May 2018, 06:42:16 pm
We were awful today. It seems like some players were already on the plane to France.

Really unconvinced with Howarth, looked well off the pace in both attack and defence and for all Lewis browns go forward play, his defence is really poor. Too busy looking for the big hit and not actually getting hold of anyone.

Reinforced again how much we rely on Callum, God knows where we would be without him.

Saw quite a few new faces down today, not sure how many will be back,what a real shame given how we have been playing.

Fair play to the Crusaders though, they played some good rugby and fully deserved the win, they were the much better team.

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Reply #13 on: 06 May 2018, 07:38:17 pm
1. Starting to believe our own hype.......not good.
2. Very poor decision making on the field....................and before the game I suspect.
3. Shocking tackling.
4. One up and poor line speed. Dion and young Phillips should have tried to cut through their line much more often.
5. Out enthused and out played.
6. Alarm bells ringing at 0-12, but weren't even heard at 12-12...we kept on doing the same daft things wrong.
7. Referee a joke, but hey aren't they all, so deal with it....we didn't.
8. To be fair I didn't think anyone had a stinker, we just were not at the races.
9. Their coach had us sussed, sitting in the stand you could hear him instructing his team to keep it simple....play it quick, and run in fast and hard with commitment down the middle. That's simply what they did, and when they kept it that way they destroyed us.
10. Yes we gifted them a couple and bombed a similar number ourselves.........but almost from the off you could feel we were going to be outscored.
11. Lets just hope we learn a massive lesson from today and the above points.

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Reply #14 on: 06 May 2018, 08:32:32 pm
Surprised how good North Wales were there no mugs, we have just come of a run of 6 wins think our players deserve a bit credit and not a dogging, Foz will turn it round. Who remembers last time North Wales Done is when woods was in charge  :D

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