Scores are on the Moseley rugby club main home page under score update. I don't know who updates the score but it is better than not knowing and just sat sitting there chewing finger nails.
Scores are on the Moseley rugby club main home page under score update. I don't know who updates the score but it is better than not knowing and just sat sitting there chewing finger nails.
Cheers Phil. The score updates are from Twitter - just a shame the Moseley Twitterati aren't contributing today.
I am not sure what is worse. Watching the pack get hammered or hearing about the pack getting hammered. If the pack ARE getting hammered then for Gods sake why don't we give what ball we do get to our backs and in the process KEEP THE BALL IN HAND.
23 18. Lost again and with perhaps the strongest team we can put out. Bossed about again up front. What have you got to say about that Moseley forwards???
London Scottish announced at the end of the match Quigley was man of the match! Maybe to rub salt into our wounds. The announcer then had to remind everyone to applaud his achievement, so maybe we had the last laugh there!
In the last play of the match we moved the ball through the forwards right up to their try line and could have nicked it .... but there was a Moseley infringement, LS were awarded a penalty and they kicked it into touch... just about dried out now.
Our line out was an improvement this week. Buster and Ollie T had good games again. LS got away with engaging early for most of the first half, so no wonder they pushed us around a bit in the scrum.
Disappointing result but in honesty one point was probably what we deserved. London Scottish were on top for the best part of 60 minutes and should probably have had the game sewn up by then but, having said that, we could have won with a try in the last few minutes.
Out muscled up front again. 100 per cent effort from all but in reality we just don't have enough 'heavyweights' in the forwards. I don't know what Kevin/David can do about it as you can only work with what you have got. I feel sorry for the backs as they get precious little ball going forward. It must be very frustrating for them.
Opposition teams have obviously worked us out so I think some new tactics (are there any new ones?) are needed!
Craig Voisey injured (looks bad).
Our loss will now open a gap between the bottom 3 and the rest so we are now in a relegation struggle in my opinion and need to plan accordingly.
Great effort from all today with Pienaar turning in his most energetic performance so far.
Pennycook and Quigley excellent for them (sorry I had to mention that)!
Good report Gary but i would have to add the sorry tale of kicking away possession especially at the death when we needed to keep the ball in hand. Obviously something they were told to do.....why?.......i dont understand it. I have to admit i never thought we would be in this position at the half way point especially with the talent we have. We havent won a home game all season in the league and its going to be incredibly difficult next week too. I feel sorry for the backs they just dont get any good ball. Greg king never touched the ball today Charlie hayter had little more and Simon Hunt just looked fed up with the whole thing...and who can blame him! I dont know what the answer is......These players are simply not doing the job.....for what ever reason, as a collective bunch, it doesnt work. We just cant get a consistent 80 minute performance out of them. The line out looked a million times better today but as we get that right, the scrum falls apart...we were battered in the scrum today! Sam Brown looked good again...he really has improved this season. Im trying desperately hard to be positive but to be totally honest i think the one saving grace is Jersey are in the division...but having said that, if they start picking up a few points here and there, things could get very serious for us. Im still convinced we can turn this around and im sure there will be an improvement in the second half of the season.....i just hope it comes sooner rather than later!
Post by Westcountry Mose on Nov 24, 2012 20:34:36 GMT
Whilst I am sure everyone is doing their best, it's beginning to look a bit like 'jam tomorrow'. However, I may have found what we need next week to stop the Roth pack!
I love it westcountry......well, after today`s mauling i reckon its just about what we need! I just hope its dry next Saturday because if we get done in the scrum by a team like Scottish so easily, God knows what just about the biggest pack in the league will do to us! However, what i would add is that most of the other sides are getting away with a lot of stuff in the scrums and i think we need a few canny heads and a few nasty buggers who are prepared to push the laws to the limits at scrum time to compete with everyone else!
Another disappointing result I'm afraid. Not much to report different from previous weeks. Appalling conditions and dominated up front. Could have snatched it at the death but in truth it would have been hard on Scottish who deserved the win.
Sorry to be negative coverdale, but it seems to me that you can forget Jersey going down - this league is worth too much to their tourist industry and they will throw in whatever money it takes to stay up IMHO.
Its definitely a point to consider Rick.... In the rugby paper Maggs seems to think we played ok yesterday.....That probably tells its own story! I saw and talked to a lot of unhappy dispondant players after the match yesterday. They are frustrated and confused about whats going on! As a teacher myself, when i have students who feel like that, I take them right back to basics and install a belief in them which comes from doing the simple things correctly. Rugby can be a very complex game we all know that, but it also has basic fundamentals which i think we are getting so many of them wrong at the moment......Just a thought......
Post by James Hopkins on Nov 25, 2012 12:13:23 GMT
One huge negative is the loss of Craig Voisey, for months rather than weeks. The tighthead, in fact their only proven tighthead, has broken the same arm that ended last season. Asking him to play with a bust arm as well as the broken thumb he has carried in the last few weeks might be too much even for wafer-thin Moseley.
I think the conditions played a part too. Both teams seemed better playing playing from right to left from the stand.
I have to agree with all that's said. The players certainly didn't look happy after the match.
Voisey had arm in sling after game. Club officianados advised broken arm. Maybe needs confirmation.
It does not help the cause when I think we gave a tremendous amount of ground away with kicks direct into touch (from experienced players) in the second half.
Those who were there will have seen the massive mauling our scum received - sometimes LS gaining 20 yards with the scrum in tact - it did look very often like boys v men and only experience will change that. Yes, we do need a JCB in the scrum (or 2) with experience and know how. The coaches have said before these are very difficult positions to fill - all the clubs hang on to these players.
Season Part 2 is upon us. Lets believe the players get the Maggsy message and we pull clear but injuries could spoil the development of the team as would be wished - so we just have to be on the Common next Sat LUNCHTIME k.o. and scream 'em on!!
What are Moseley going to do now? Our pack is being stuffed all over the place whist our pacey backs can only stand and watch. If we are not careful our backs are going to "bugger off " somewhere, as it were, at the end of the season - and who can blame them - and leave Moseley with its back to the wall.
One Saturday, many years ago I was captain of the Wanderers for the day. Lucky me some would say. We were playing Solihull, away, nothing too unusual so far apart from me being captain for the day. We were two men short, so what, Solihull might only have 14.
However, at 5 foot 8 and a bit ( standing on my tiptoe ) I was the second tallest in our team by the huge margin of about a quarter of an inch - sorry you metric lads I don't do millimetres, or whatever you call them - and as I had been elected captain I had to make an important decision. I could have taken the easy route and cancelled the game - but no, this was MOSELEY and every local junior team relished the chance to put one over Moseley. I felt the MOSELEY could not resort to a such low down, cowardly get out clause. We had to defend our honour and we had a cracking set of backs that day so I took an executive decision; 1, to play the game and 2, to put myself in as second row. No flankers, just a number 8 - well some one a bit fitter than me in the number 8 position.
So off we went and when we got to Solihull I found out they had a full side and they were huge. Not one of them was under 7 foot 3 inches and 18 stones - well it seemed like that. I didn't say I only had 13 player. I told them two players were on their way and we would start the game without them.
And now as captain I had to make another executive decision. Right lads we're gonna get 57 cans of fertiliser knocked out of us in 't pack because we have no flankers and we need to cover the backs, so whatever ball we get you can have - run the buggers round the pitch and wear them out.
And that is exactly wot we done.
First scrum came, our put in. Crash, bang, wallop. Crash we held their scrum and they staggered against our massive, massive 6 man push. Bang, the ball was out to our number 10 in a flash. It was that quick in never even saw it come in never mind go out. Wallop, we were in at the corner and a converted try up in less than 5 minutes.
We had a good lead at half time and expected a fresh onslaught from a regrouped opponent in the second half - especially as they knew our "two late players" were nowhere in sight.
There were more crash, bang wallops in that game than God made green apples and we won the game - including a pushover try - by a clear 40 points. The only score they got was an unconverted pushover try right at the end of the game.
Thinking of the SAS motto; Who Dare Wins, were we happy? You bet we were happy.
So say no more other than come on Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooose.
Nice one Phill. It's what we should try to do against Rotherham. Get their big pack running around untill they run out of steam, should take about 60 mins, and then have a field day in the last 20mins. Come on you Mooooose.
Lets give the forwards some credit. After all the pack that started the match against LS was virtually the same as the one that started when we beat Bristol. Our first try was a forwards effort and in the last play of the match the forwards drove the ball up from the LS 22 line right up to their try line.
I too thought it was disappointing that Greg King didn't touch the ball all game, but then again Andy Reay barely got hold of it either!
I take your points exile but to be honest its time to stop making excuses and trying to find comparisons to make everything seem to be ok....its not....Ive been to every game this season including the pre season friendlies, This team isnt performing end of story. The bottom line is its going to have to from here on in because this is getting serious. As we have said many times its not through lack of effort, they always put in a shift, but good rugby players are not playing well together and havent all season pretty much.......STAND UP THE COACHES!!!!!!! ......
