Some people like marmite.

Nobody is disputing the fact that there should be competition for places. However, 18 pages of fans opinions is not going to make one jot of difference to PG's thinking, however important posters think their views are.

Completely agree.

Briscoe picked up a couple of knocks and should have been replaced by rights.

But with Green and O'Meley unable to return we didn't have options.

Yeaman was trying to limit Briscoe being exposed and i think this was the reason Leeds made the break between him and Ellis for their try. Yeaman makes a dash to his left but when realising the pass wasn't made he tried to step back to his right and slipped missing the tackle in the process.

I posted a similar sentiment on page 4, but i suppose if Yeamo had stepped inside and died with the ball then people would be happier ...not me i would rather see an attempt to promote some positive and exciting play.

I've been a critic for years of him not putting his winger away. This time he tried to keep the move going once he knew he was not going to make it on his own, it didn't work, but this is how i want to see us playing, with some flair and confidence.

Do we want 80% performances and leeping it safe, or do we want them team to push themselves, try things and create some memories.

With the first you get the Agar era, with the second you get some errors but you also get some amazing tries

He didn't have to try and make it on his own.

He had broke through and the simple thing to do would be to draw the full back and put one of the supporting players on the inside over for a try.

Nothing to do with playing with flair and confidence. That he showed when making the break.

No, but there is a 'catch the ball around your ankles whilst on the move' one.

Not that I'm personally going to criticise Pitts for it, but it was an error, and one that we do have a practice drill for, so it was a valid point.

This. It's a been a weakness in his game throughout his career, but I've always thought it's more about the incorrect reading of the situation rather than making the wrong choice (either intentionally or not).

Think this is more appropriate in here.

Does the drill include the ball getting to you on the bounce?

I wouldn't have expected anyone to pick that up TBH. It would have been a miracle take. What I would say is that Pitts would have been better off hacking it forward rather than trying to pick it up.

....and there we all were thinking that the coaching staff logged onto here every morning and changed their regime accordingly.

Thanks (!) for clearing that up for us Hessle Roader! I was wondering where my pay cheque was!

As you say, it was a pretty much an impossible take from a lob, rather than a pass. Those saying Pitts should have taken it are just been plain daft imo.

The ball was just below Pitts' knee, same position as Westerman's and Pitts had far more time to react. I'm disappointed that Pitts didn't still convert the chance, as Pitts is, I'm sure.

You really need to look again, a professional player should take that more often than not, as Westy proved.

Well, you could put that against most threads. And with that attitude / point of view it begs the question of whats the point in a message forum?

If your not disputing the competition for places issue, I cannot understand your opposition to a thread about an experienced player not being able to use the experience. Thankfully it didnt cost us the game. They say players learn by their mistakes. Well, how many chances is one player going to be given?

My view of it was that it didn't bounce until after he got hands to it. The drill is pretty much the kind of ball he received, just slower. They plop the ball around shin/ankle level as players run past.

I did actually say that I wouldn't criticise him for it, as I do think that it was a very difficult take. Not impossible though, so it's not wrong to say that he also made an error, it was just more understandable and shouldn't really have been necessary as the pass should have been both earlier and better.

I do agree with east hull fc fan and others about the level of criticism being thrown at Yeaman over this, though. I don't think enough people are being fair and giving him credit for what a good game he actually had overall, and especially with the additional responsibility/difficulty Briscoe's injury caused him.

I give up. I'll maybe come back when it reach 100 pages.

It's easier to catch a ball around your ankles if you're expecting it to be delivered around your ankles. Like when you're doing the 'catch a ball around your ankles' drill.

If we drop Yeaman for Arundel we lose a lot in defence and probably get no real gain in attack.
I don't even think Yeaman is out of form, his defence has been very good as usual and we don't tend to use our left as much anymore so it's obvious his try tally will diminish.
Yeaman isn't the best centre in the league, but he's better than most.

What a rubbish excuse that is.

I'd expect goal kicking in training is a lot easier for Holdsworth too.

You can be quite silly sometimes.

Of course it is. Pretty much everything is easier in a practice situation than a game. The reason that techniques are practiced is still with the aim of improving their execution in a game though.

I'll reiterate that I personally don't blame Pitts for not taking that ball, but I don't think your above comment really has a point.

The point is that one poster is saying that Pitts should have been expected to take the 'pass' because the team practise the technique in a training drill. This is obviously nonsense. The drill is practised to increase the chances that a player might collect a pass that is extremely difficult to take. This does not mean that a player can be 'expected' to take an ankle-height ball in the same way as they do when they're doing a training drill where they know such a pass is on the way.

I reckon Whiting would have took it, no problem.
What do you think RGX ?

Without question. And if he'd have been in Yeaman's position, he'd have easily have had the pace to score.