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Date Posted: 17:31:06 01/29/05 Sat
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Author Host/IP: lysine.whitcombe.org.uk / 84.92.27.107
Subject: Absolutely pathetic

Totally hammered by a side that according to their programme hasnt won a home game since November and got knocked out of the cup last week by the world class might of Llantwit Fadre.

Our forwards were absolutely hammered and terrible throughout. Lineout was possibly the worst ive ever seen with the number of own throws won counted on one hand with fingers to spare. Scrum wasnt much better.

Add that to some very sloppy tackling and the scoreline was a fair result.
The backs while pacey in broken play received very little ball and all that was slow. Too often we kicked it ahead with nothing else on and lost what little posession we had.
Scott Horner about the only player that looked up for it and all too often he got isolated with little or no support.

Half time score was 17 - 13, we failed to score a point in the second half and never once looked like it.

Llandoverys tactics simple and easy, kick forward to touch, win ebbws lineout, repeat until in the 22 then keep it tight waiting for the inevitable missed tackle.

We can argue about the time without a game and so on but that dismal forward display goes far deeper than that. They werent competetive and towards the end either gave up or ran out of steam or both.

Its a good job we got that good winning streak last year as on performances like todays we will struggle to beat anyone at all.

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Yep, sadly that's exactly the same game as I saw. A distinct lack of strength in depth a couple of positions has found us out. (NT) -- Graham, 19:54:20 01/29/05 Sat
Grim reading but league table updated: http://www.whitcombe.org.uk/premier/displaytable.php (NT) -- -, 00:32:21 01/30/05 Sun
Re: Absolutely pathetic -- S.Y., 11:26:16 01/31/05 Mon
- They had 2 maybe 3 not particulary good llanelli players. Our problems were far more deep rooted than that - those players didnt win the game for them. Our forwards lost that game for us not the superclub players winning it. We'd have lost without those (NT) -- -, 12:29:37 01/31/05 Mon
  - The teams we play seem to have that extra gear and motivation come the second half. Sadly, our extra gear at the moment seems to be reverse. (NT) -- Graham, 16:04:32 01/31/05 Mon
  - A couple of photos here: http://www.whitcombe.org.uk/llandovery/ (NT) -- -, 23:44:42 01/31/05 Mon
    - Good pics fella. Well worth a look. If you'd taken one from the other side of the field as well, we could have added up the attendance figure for the game. (NT) -- Graham, 00:31:37 02/01/05 Tue

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