Post by Westcountry Mose on Jan 25, 2019 10:42:37 GMT
"There is a real urgency at the moment because we are third from bottom - with three teams to go down - so we need to start building victories and climb the table."
Surely, "urgency", "victories" and "climb the table" should have been the mantra from the off and certainly before November?
The team news in article does not tie up with above squad re Fidler,Buster and Roach.No mention of Williams,is he injured.
It was the same last week Richard, apparently they've had to do some juggling due to injuries.
We seem to be missing a number of players including Sam Pointon, Nick David, Alex Hearle, Louis Roach and Aaron Crofts. Any background on our number 14?
It was the same last week Richard, apparently they've had to do some juggling due to injuries.
We seem to be missing a number of players including Sam Pointon, Nick David, Alex Hearle, Louis Roach and Aaron Crofts. Any background on our number 14?
Nick David, Alex Hearle & Louis Roach are not contracted to us Andy so we have no control over their availability. Aaron Crofts is currently at Stourbridge gaining some much needed game time following injury, Sam Pointon & James Williams are injured.
John Davetanivalu is another Army recruit I believe who has recently been playing for Moseley Oak.
Post by Westcountry Mose on Jan 25, 2019 15:58:03 GMT
I'd love to be wrong on this but if we return with any points we would have done very well indeed. Not impossible, but me thinks akin to whistling in the wind.
As I have enquired earlier....will our Army contingent be with us mostly but with potential Army games call up(8?) could take them away between now and May ? Is it a concern?
I'd love to be wrong on this but if we return with any points we would have done very well indeed. Not impossible, but me thinks akin to whistling in the wind.
I wasn’t impressed by Darlington when they were at our ground so don’t share your pessimism!
Proud of the lads, great skill and loads of effort. They can all hold their heads high. Sam Hollingsworth had a great game, his kicking out of hand was exceptional. Think nerves got the better of him for the last kick, not to be criticised. Onwards and upwards.
17 - 17, 2 points. Well done Moseley, two welcome points. But isn't life cruel sometimes folks. Tuther week Rotherham needed a conversion at the death to win the game and got it. This week Moseley needed a conversion at the death to win the game and missed it.
Come on Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooose
Post by kingsheathlad on Jan 27, 2019 12:54:06 GMT
There is a comprehensive report on the DMP site.I think the reporter was not too impressed with the game or our tactics but surely you play to your strengths and could not spell Sam`s name correctly. Can`t make next game so come on Mose........
Here Here khl. Good old fashioned forward rugby never hurt anybody...I enjoy it on occasions. These 47 - 41 games we witness are not really my dram of whisky. Well last week we were denied a try by the refs assistant (mind you quite correctly by the look of photo evidence) while this week the assistant steps in to help Mr LaRoux succeed. Pity about the kicks.
So BMRFC are denying my prediction and they are 2 points up on my total of 10 prediction for ....OE (Me 0 BMRFC 1) DMP (Me1 BMRFC 2) Rosslyn P (Me 4) Blackheath (Me 0) Sale (Me 5). I have a feeling that these matches are a defining point of the season as a gap is beginning to appear which, if we fail to reach about 10 points, may leave us with too much to do. I know the Division is unpredictable but we cannot rely on the likes of Students,Esher, Cambridge and Caldy to play to their league position status. We cannot become too predictable ourselves in just maintaining and relying on a forward domination as the opposition may 'work it out'as the weeks go on.
So, its a matter of buckling down, hopefully being able to capture some flair,keeping a fit and being able to adequately replace Army games/exercises call up personnel. Not too much to worry about then!
PS try the steak and kidney pudding and chips £4 from the food counter in the members bar that's if you are not wining and dining of course!
It was a bit of an arm-wrestle. The ref was clearly all at sea with the scrum, and made some, er, interesting decisions, but I don't see that he was biased one way or the other. For the most part our pack was superior and the forward battle reflected that. Jay Tyack hobbled off lame after about 25 minutes, and I hope it wasn't serious.
We didn't do ourselves any favours with handling errors (yet again), and Ollie Allsopp spilled the ball with the line at his mercy midway through the second half. But Mowden also couldn't keep possession, so it was honours even there as well. The line-out functioned well, we lost one I think and stole at least one of theirs. There were some good backs moves, and the tactical kicking was better than it had been, not so many aimless kicks to their back three. I'd like to see Rob Lewis work on his box kicks, they either seem to go too far, or hardly go forward at all meaning everyone's offside.
And to our eternal credit, this week we pursued the result right to the wire, helped admittedly by errors by Mowden Park similar to those we committed against Roth. And the ending was similar, we were camped on their line taking scrum after scrum from penalty awards. One of their men got a yellow card, giving us the man advantage, and eventually we burrowed over to get us the draw (Mowden's report says Jacques le Roux but I swear it was Joe Wrafter taking the plaudits from the team on the day).
Three tries for us, two to them. A shame results elsewhere didn't go our way. But we *can* beat Rosslyn Park, we only lost to them on the last play in the away game. Keep going, Mose ...
