The MSA are running a coach to the next and penultimate away game of the season at Rams on Saturday 2nd April.
Coach pricing will be £15 members, £20 non-members and £5 for under 16s. Departure Time will be confirmed nearer the date.
To book, as always you can reply here, message the MSA on Facebook or Twitter, email travel.moseleyfans@gmail.com, or come and see them at the MSA table on Saturday.
Talk about being let down. Moseley was the only home fixture today. Why, oh why on earth do Moseley continue to play Jeckle and Hyde rugby?
I am absolutely seething bacause through unbelievably selfish play, particularly in the first half, Moseley lost the game today by half time, rather than BS won it.
Other than the lunch, the man of the match performance by Pat Zindi - he was everywhere - and the interception try by Dan Lewis there was not much else to cheer about.
Pam and I are going to a concert tonight and even if all the performers are off key they wont be anywhere near the dire perfomance displayed on the common today.
Agree with Phil - it really was a poor performance. We actually made Bishop Stortford look good and they are certainly not. Passing at times from the backs was awful. I don’t know what was up with Tom Benjamin as he lost the plot and gifted two tries. Sam was also way off the mark. Maybe we need our loan/dual registered players back.
Post by kingsheathlad on Mar 26, 2022 20:48:00 GMT
Our backs at times seem to be stationary when taking the ball and not running onto a pass, some passes received above the head. If we haven't a backs coach we need one for next season. Great result for Blackheath today which makes it more interesting around the bottom, hopefully we can cause a shock or two or even three and beat Rams, Sale and Cinderford. Come on Mose....
Yes, immensely frustrating today. For every good thing Mose did today (win a turnover, a scrum penalty, a line break), the next passage of play gave back any gain and then some.
The classic was a brilliant kick in the first half to get a 50:22, but we then ended up on our 5m line.
It was great to have a fully Mose squad, but you have to support players who make yards and not throw wild passes when players are nowhere near.
Last week I and others really had a feeling of us moving on and upwards but today took us back against a squad who were efficient but only as good as we allowed them to be. We lost so many lineouts no wonder our backs were lost for a response, they never knew when they would receive good ball to create. Lineout is such a history with BMRFC that opposition can almost relax knowing we'll bungle it! So disappointing today. Just a win at Rams will put us right...right?
Our backs at times seem to be stationary when taking the ball and not running onto a pass, some passes received above the head. If we haven't a backs coach we need one for next season. ....
I understood Glackin was the backs coach and he is clearly out of his depth. My concern is that we could well lose some really talented players if we don’t get a better coach.
Frustrating day and a very poor performance. Having done so well to turn things around with the away win streak which included a number of must-win games I was hoping we might push on and finish as a clear top half side as there is a distinct gap between the two halves of the table. The line out was abysmal as was some of the passing and we absolutely gifted this game to a pretty average team who nonetheless have taken 10 points off us this season scoring nearly 60 points on the field in the process. Game management was poor, the first half cost us dearly, look at how hard it was to even compete in the second half against that wind and a team that understood that and played to it.
I am still furious at the way Moseley gifted that game to BS in the way they did yesterday. In the first 10 minutes alone selfish, utterly SELFISH individual play cost Moseley at least 10 points and possibly 12 points. To miss one mile wide, unprotected overlap in the first 5 minutes was one thing, but to repeat the same glaring disaster when gifted with a second chance 5 minutes later is nothing less than stupidity of the highest order. Moreover, playing on lovely, sunny, bit windy day, they allowed the ball to bounce to often which is fatal on a dry ground.
If most of the opposition teams this season put together a half decent line-out catch and drive against Moseley they are almost certainly guaranteed 5 and often 7 points. I think BS scored three catch and drive tries yesterday just to prove my point. A brilliant, huge distance Moseley 50-20 kick was botched The BS three-quarters were more of a nuisance than a threat yesterday primarily because Moseley missed far too many 1st, 2nd and even 3rd tackles.
As the season has progressed the Moseley tight 8 up front have steadily improved and can now comfortably hold their own - even dominate on occasion - again other teams. Yesterday was not a bad day for the tight 8 as man of the match Pat Zindi demonstrated. I have always rated Pat Zindi who had a superb game knocking the opposition over right left and centre. He also managed a couple of good steals. I was also impressed at one line-out where he took a first receiver position and were in not for something going wrong - I think it was a not straight call - it would have been interesting to see what came of it.
Which brings me to the line out. The line-out yesterday was a bit of everything good, bad and down right ugly with the former in short supply. To be fair I feel the Moseley line-out has certainly improved throughout the season. I can hear you all thinking what on earth is he on about improved throughout the season. Well folks, many of you have all made comment about the dire line-out at start of the season. Improvement is one thing but consistency and relaibity to compliment that improvement is another and there Moseley are still wanting.
To illustrate this point a huge and brilliant 20-50 kick yesterday bounced out of touch within 8 yards or so of the BS line. It was crying out for a simple line-out catch and drive. What we got was yet another Moseley line-out botch up and yet another chance to score lost. I feel the fragility of the Moseley line-out is demonstrated by the fact that more often than not Moseley line-outs are off the top calls rather than take the ball into the body of the line-out, cement the catch, tie in the opposition and / or and drive on from there. To add insut to that cock up BS scored three catch and drive tries without the benefit of a 20/50 kick.
Turning to the three quarters I feel they were emboldened by the champaigne style of last week and definitely made an attempt to inject pace and creativity where-ever possible. The problem was that this week the fizz had gone and the champagne was flat. For me the noticeable difference was the close interpassing - or lack of it - compared with last week. I agree there were quite a few clear breaks yesterday, just like last week; many of them were well supported, just like last week; but the key element MISSING yesterday was that FINAL PASS. It was not as if there was no-one to pass to, there was and often too, but all too often the ball carrier took the ball into the tackle, died with it or conceded a penaly for holding and the moment was lost. I counted at least, AT LEAST, 5 occasions where there was a clear, unprotected overlap went begging. GRRRRRR it just makes my blood boil.
Pam and I plan to go to Rams next week. If Moseley perfom against Rams next week like they did against BS yesterday methinks it's going to be yet another long and fruitless journey.
All that aside the Moseley colour still runs through our viens so, as ever
Come on Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I thought the final score flattered us last week. We played well and took our opportunities, but against a pretty poor defence.
It wasn't followed up this week against another team in the mix in the lower half of the table, but one which, from the off, was clearly fired up and understood the significance of the match. I felt we were still in it at 10-15 at half time, but the second half was particularly poor - the interception providing the only score while BS pushed on for their bonus point. Their late calls for 'No bonus point' as Mose tried to build showed their intent (whereas we allowed Plymouth to take one last week, although with our defence affected by late injuries).
The away run at the start of the year reflected the start of the season. We picked up points at home against the same opponents before tailing off to a poor run pre-Christmas. I suspect Chinnor away was our 'surprise' result, and hopefully that will have given us enough points with three tough fixtures coming up ahead of a potentially nervy trip to DMP.
It’s taken me 48 hours to come to terms how bad that performance was. I totally understand that the weeks training was cancelled due to COVID, BUT WE HAVE SOME REALLY TALENTED PLAYERS, ESPECIALLY IN THE BACK LINE, who seem like deers in headlights when they get the ball, this is totally down to coaching or lack of it.
