Birmingham Moseley 21-44 Sedgley Park Tigers

[beermonster]

On the mitigating side we were already heavily depleted personnel wise before k.o then lost our number 8 within minutes of the kick off. Ben Morris also went off early on not to return. Then we lost our winger to injury so we had no 9 on the wing and hooker playing back row for much of the game.

[southernmose]

Agree with all of that - the most frustrating thing was it wasn’t all bad. We had them in the scrum, the line out was working better than I’ve seen it since about 2010, there was real commitment to tackling round the halfway line.

On the other hand we lacked a genuine cutting edge, butchered our chances (such as we had), and the defence went completely AWOL too often. Having said that, it was really good at times (we held up a try), but non-existent at others. They could get round us fairly easily and then have yards of space behind our last player.

So there was good in there, but it didn’t add up to a win, or a narrow loss even.

[dag]

Well Moseley. As is your tradition of late you have lost to the new boys, this time Sedgley Tigers. And it was not close defeat, Oh no! It was a resounding thrashing, at home by a lot to not many. Words fail me but in one game you have shattered the hopes of Moseley supporters that Moseley were going to be a team to be reckoned with this season.

I know it was a hot muggy day - it was the same for both teams - but I have never, ever seen such an awful demonstration of rugby from a Moseley team for a very, very long time. There was more life on the Mary Celeste than there was on Billesley Common today, such was the Moseley appetite to perform.

Gone were the clinking glasses of sparkling champagne of last week; instead we had warm beer and not even good beer at that.

The line-out was ok. The pack in the tight was ok, but outside both those main planks utter confusion reigned supreme. The ball handling in particular was dreadful; the decision making barely evident; the overall performance and cohesion throughout the game,when compared with champagne popping performance last week at Rams, beggered belief.

It would be nice to think I might wake up tomorrow morning and realise I had had an awful nightmare - but I somehow doubt it.

Even so and with a very heavy heart, Come on Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooose

[banjo]

Hard to believe that with a largely dominant scrum and a near 100% lineout we lost by 20 points. Backs looked slick at Rams, strangers today. We can’t catch a high ball. Referee dodged the yellow card in the first half, numerous penalties but nothing given. That said, their centre built like a lock waltzing through a number of tackles and out pacing our backs is a worry. Sedgley efficient but nothing more, our mistakes handed the game to them.

[beermonster]

Hope the injuries weren't as bad as they looked. Obano was limping badly fingers crossed it's not too serious

[chunk]

Sept 9, 2023 16:51:48 GMT grooveavenue said:

What will be Mose strongest start squad?

Honestly I don’t think selection is the issue. We have some excellent players that are capable. The real issue is the lack of gameplan and tactics.

[chrisyork]

Sept 9, 2023 21:52:54 GMT chunk said:

Sept 9, 2023 16:51:48 GMT grooveavenue said:

What will be Mose strongest start squad?

Honestly I don’t think selection is the issue. We have some excellent players that are capable. The real issue is the lack of gameplan and tactics.

If you are trying to say that we need a change in the coaching staff then I tend to agree with you. 

[owain]

I think the big issue we face is that we have been told that the way to build a competitive team in National 1 is to keep a team together for a number of years, however the sides who are doing that are doing so with bigger budgets and bigger squads. Rams have come back to win twice now, as I suppose a higher level of cohesion and fitness comes if you can afford to be training four times a week.

Really felt we missed Stedman today, I think we'd already have been in Nat 2 this season without him dragging us up on multiple occasions last year. Where are the D/Rs? If we don't have a large squad or the budget to bring in any other players we surely need to be reaching out to get some other players in - I know this might be difficult due to the new Prem cup but Koroiyadi scored the winning try for Leicester Lions last weekend - surely we need to be reaching out to Adam's former team Gloucester given we've lost Wasps, Worcester and now probably Leicester as places to get D/R players from.

I think this coaching team is running out of road given the manner of the defeats are identifiable over a number of seasons (such as our constant failure to put a guard in when box kicking), but I genuinely don't know who you'd bring in to replace them.

[dag]

Owain does have a valid point with regards to coaching staff because it is becoming clearly evident, to me at least, that Moseley have a very vulnerable midfield defence problem. The defence twix the back row and the inside centre is all too often AWOL.

The occasional missed tackle is one thing, but when it becomes wholesale then thingd heed to be put right. But does it? Alas not so which leaves us supporters with little option than to hope and pray.

Come on Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooose

[martinwatson aka Camera Shake]

Action from the game on our Youtube channel

[rightarmover]

Thanks Martin always appreciate your posts of highlights.. however I think I will give these a miss as I am only just coming to terms with Saturdays result and performance and want to erase it from my memory watching again would b too painful

[beermonster]

Turning our attention to next Saturday we face Rosslyn Park... Not a happy hunting ground of late. I expect a strong reaction to Saturday but it will be a tough ask on their plastic pitch. Here's hoping for miracles 🫤

[banjo]

Second Moseley try was Callum Allen #4 …not Foreman ?

[martinwatson aka Camera Shake]

Sept 10, 2023 22:09:34 GMT banjo said:

Second Moseley try was Callum Allen #4 …not Foreman ?

All the scorer details are taken from the official RFU Competition card - I have checked that it credits Joe Foreman with the try.

[martinwatson aka Camera Shake]

Sept 10, 2023 18:59:45 GMT rightarmover said:

Thanks Martin always appreciate your posts of highlights.. however I think I will give these a miss as I am only just coming to terms with Saturdays result and performance and want to erase it from my memory watching again would b too painful

Go on....be brave......

[Communications Team]

Match report & photos now on the club website

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[andyj]

Sept 10, 2023 6:32:49 GMT chrisyork said:

Sept 9, 2023 21:52:54 GMT chunk said:

Honestly I don’t think selection is the issue. We have some excellent players that are capable. The real issue is the lack of gameplan and tactics.

If you are trying to say that we need a change in the coaching staff then I tend to agree with you. 

Positives as noted above were the line out and scrum (until we lost 2 of our back row).
Watching the so called highlights it is even more obvious that our backs simply lack direction and this is down to Glackin.
I know we have a number of injuries - several players sat in front of us at the game - but is selection an issue? I thought our half backs were poor. Contrast them with the opposition. I know their number 9 was very irritating but his speed of play/box kicking was far superior. Their fly half ran some great lines and was equally great in defence.
Why not play Sam in his favoured position at 9 with Freddie coming on as an impact sub. We can't be a one man team but as mentioned above the loss of Ollie Stedman was very obvious. No mention in terms of why he was missing.

[rightarmover]

Sept 11, 2023 7:15:53 GMT martinwatson aka Camera Shake said:

Sept 10, 2023 18:59:45 GMT rightarmover said:

Thanks Martin always appreciate your posts of highlights.. however I think I will give these a miss as I am only just coming to terms with Saturdays result and performance and want to erase it from my memory watching again would b too painful

Go on....be brave......

..oh OK then but with one eye closed 

[banjo]

Sept 11, 2023 7:14:08 GMT martinwatson aka Camera Shake said:

Sept 10, 2023 22:09:34 GMT banjo said:

Second Moseley try was Callum Allen #4 …not Foreman ?

All the scorer details are taken from the official RFU Competition card - I have checked that it credits Joe Foreman with the try.

Ok fair enough, but you can clearly see number 4 catching and driving over.