The bottom four is the bottom four - don't we need teams around us to win & bring others back towards us? But if Moseley do the business you never know.
Post by kingsheathlad on Dec 10, 2011 17:43:02 GMT
Oddsox. In the play offs after today we have four points with Plymouth,LS have three and Esher Nil. I think we need to get as many more wins as possible to give us a good start on Esher.
ok yes thanks khlad - I was still thinking of escaping the bottom four !
In reality Esther have the potential to reach 30 points (6x5) in the play offs - so we certainly can't afford to lose to them, if we are in bottom four regardless of any points we take in.
YES WE CAN STILL GET OUT OF THE BOTTOM 4!! BELIEVE If we can get a few more wins and bonus points (try or losing) and Leeds have a bit of a bad run. It is possible! COME ON MOSE - ONWARDS AND UPWARDS!!!
Great win against opponents I thought would put up a bit more of a fight, nevertheless, job done. Only thought is, we could and should have been far more ruthless, 50 points would not have been a problem, we wasted two totally open opportunities. It is quite clear we are a more rounded squad than our fellow strugglers in the bottom 4' now we have to step it up and beat those teams we let off the hook in the first half of the season.
Great win against opponents I thought would put up a bit more of a fight, nevertheless, job done. Only thought is, we could and should have been far more ruthless, 50 points would not have been a problem, we wasted two totally open opportunities. It is quite clear we are a more rounded squad than our fellow strugglers in the bottom 4' now we have to step it up and beat those teams we let off the hook in the first half of the season.
Cheers Ale. Good report and encouraging stuff ahead of our rematch with Scottish.
I was happy to take a single point victory today, and would be just as happy to take a single point victory against Scottish on 26th. However let's be prepared for whatever is thrown our way and be prepared to battle to victory.
I notice Andy Reay came off after 30 minutes. Does anybody know if he was injured badly?
Came off with a rib injury just after scoring. Hopeful of being ok for next week, he may have to be as Jack Adams has a broken thumb.
It was a bit nervy at times, but we were much more in control in the second half. Esher have a 15 with a real turn of speed - but he's also prone to dropping the ball, and that let us off at least once. When we scored twice early in the second half and got the bonus - and after Olly kicked the penalty we were four scores ahead - there was no way back for Esher, we kept the first time tackles coming in and Esher found it hard to make progress. However, they kept trying and deserved their second score.
The much-vaunted Nicky Little at 10 for Ehser didn't do much, and came off early-ish in the second half.
Post by exiledinsurrey on Dec 11, 2011 9:24:33 GMT
One of their centres was quick too - I think both sides ruined a few clear cut chances which depending on timing could have made a much closer scoreline, or as someone else posted, a 50 point Moseley win. There was a point in the second half where we looked like we could score at will though and overall we had too much for Esher. Everyone played well and the back row was outstanding as usual.
Not much to add to the posts above regarding the match except to agree with most. The other speedy back was their number 13 (the Canadian Phil Mackenzie?) who I believe used to be at Coventry but I don't remember him being as dangerous as he looked yesterday!
David Lyons injured his hand in the warm up to the game so potentially we are now carrying a few injuries going in to the next series of matches.
I don't know what happened at the end of the game and I think our time management was a bit off. 3/4 players got stripped ready to come on and were standing on the sideline for a few minutes but none got on by the time the final whistle was blown. A few frustrated players i think!
We will need to rest some players for next week's game and make sure others get game time.
Terrific performance yesterday. No reason to believe we cannot win upcoming games against Scottish, Leeds and Plymouth (at least).
A great result against Esher. Even though they scorred first and kept us pinned down in our half for a good part of the start of the game it did not feel as though we could loose, the lads just seemed to use it as a warm up period before going on to enjoy themselves. Both forwards and backs did well as seperate units and combined well to give us the result we needed. We still seem to be vulnerable to speed though and Esher had a couple of fliers in their No's 13 & 15. If it had not been for a forward pass and handling errors, the scores could have been closer. Maybe thats also one of the reasons Esher are where they are at the moment. Still, thats 4 points to take into the relegation playoffs if we don't make it to 8th or better. This month should give us a good idea which way the season will go. Shame Leed had to beat the Pirates. Shows though that any one seems to be able to beat anyone else in this division. Lets hope the injuries to Andy and David are not too bad, especially as Jack will be off for some time with his broken thumb. Watched Munster playing in their cup match from the weekend. I'm glad it isn't the 1st XV we are playing on Sat. See you there. Come on you Mooooose.
