Re: Swinton Lions : Sun May 19, 2024 5:13 pm  

Also, Jermaine Mcgillvary.. if he keeps playing the way he is and he feels he has a year left in him get him signed up, as a back up even. He's still a super star of the game, head and shoulders above any back in terms of his carries. Yes, he is basically an OAP, but so is Ryan Hall and he is still one of the best...

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Re: Swinton Lions : Sun May 19, 2024 5:20 pm  

Yes. It was their right against our left edge defense.

Re: Swinton Lions : Sun May 19, 2024 5:24 pm  

PopTart wrote:

Yes. It was their right against our left edge defense.

Yes and a lot of it was tactical aswell, which is where the issues presented themselves. Swinton for large periods of the first half kept going for 40/20s on the 4th, so we dropped back on Olpherts side on the 4th and they switched it up and ran the ball through hands when we did, really simple but effective for Swinton, just beat us for numbers.

Re: Swinton Lions : Sun May 19, 2024 5:26 pm  

Granted there were 2 really soft tries on the line down that side, one from Walmsley not dealing with the kick, the other one of the players got beat on his inside shoulder

Re: Swinton Lions : Sun May 19, 2024 5:47 pm  

yes my fault in previous post, I did mean their right and our left, sorry

Re: Swinton Lions : Sun May 19, 2024 6:07 pm  

It was a cracking game and a really good contest up until the last 20 minutes .

When we've gone behind previously this season I'm fearing the worst but now I'm pretty confident we can reset , not panic and find a way which almost inevitably we do by going direct .

I thought Swinton were excellent and were a very fit group but I also believe that many of our opponent's are bringing their best game when they play us and if they played anything like they do against us against the others they'd be doing much better than many of them are .

Re: Swinton Lions : Sun May 19, 2024 6:43 pm  

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I thought our right side defence was a shambles today and Swinton really exploited it. I think that performance has given Powell plenty to think about. Thankfully our superior pack did the job in the end. However a win is a win, roll on to Whitehaven next week.

I think he’s already thought about it. He took Lawford off moved Kay out wide and the tries stopped instantly.

I don’t really like pinning things on individual players but Lawford simply wasn’t getting across to cover. It made Pratt look like a pratt when in fact there was little he could do. The only exaction was the third try, no idea with tat one as there were plenty of bodies there.

Sadly we all got a bit over excited about Lawaford but in truth he’s way out of his depth at the moment. He’s obviously got some skill especially his kicking, but that’s twice that he seems to have lost his nerve- not great. But at least it puts to bed all that nonsense that he should be ahead of Lino and Gale.

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Re: Swinton Lions : Sun May 19, 2024 7:09 pm  

He's learning the game and how he can develop.
This was a perfect game to play Lawford. He was under pressure and targeted but he was protected enough by having players that can fill in and not lose the game.
Full time environment will give him the chance to find out whether he's got it.

Re: Swinton Lions : Sun May 19, 2024 7:38 pm  

I don't think the result was ever in doubt, but I do think today showed there's a fair few players who are nowhere near SL quality should we go back up. Twice now Lawford has been given a chance and twice he's struggled. We can argue he's young, but at 24 I think it's reasonable to expect more against Swinton when we have such a dominant pack.

Our props were the match winners again. Looking forward to seeing more of Bain, early days but looks like we might have another good one there.

Re: Swinton Lions : Sun May 19, 2024 7:41 pm  

Myles is 20 mate, 24 is his team number.

We've signed him on a 3-year deal and even paid a fee for the lad. But I have to admit even though he's shown glimpses earlier of a promising player, he's struggled especially defensively a few times and because he's such a small kid I'm not sure how much that will change even in a full-time environment. How much better will it be next year for example, I mean apart from technique, he needs to add a bit of bulk onto his small frame, which is gonna be quite hard and at best a slow and steady process. He just needs to get game time atm, whether that be the odd game, reserves or on the occasional DR game and see where we are nearer the end of the season.