Big up Number 10
It gets worse
Big up Number 10
By Leipziger
October 5 2009
A professional if uninspiring performance from Saracens at KP yesterday keeps them top of the table and continues our Falcons' second-worst start to a Premiership season.
Big up Number 10
October 5 2009
A professional if uninspiring performance from Saracens at KP yesterday keeps them top of the table and continues our Falcons' second-worst start to a Premiership season.
Four very winnable matches and another that, with hindsight, we could've easily got a bonus point from. Fast forward: three draws, two defeats, one losing bonus point and only three tries scored.
Even if we have only conceded five tries, it doesn't lessen the fact that this is a poor return. Since we won the title, 2004 is the only time we've started a season with a squad rivalling this one, yet something seems to be quite wrong at Kingston Park.
Anybody who wants to read about yesterday's game in minute detail should and probably already has looked elsewhere. I wrote this while standing on a hot train because it was so packed I couldn't even get to my seat and kick out whoever was sitting there, so that didn't improve my mood any.
And like I suspect most Falcons fans after yesterday's game, I was quite angry.
Like our other home games this season it could've been so different. We weren't brilliant in the first half but Jimmy Gopperth kicked over all five penalties, and but for a loose pass that allowed Richard “I always play well against the Falcons” Haughton to score and Derick Hougaard's try on Sarries' only real time in our 22, we'd have been 15-3 up at half-time.
As it was, we were 15-17 down, but I felt we were doing OK and in little danger overall. I certainly thought if we could continue to have possession and start to create clear chances, and Gopperth kept kicking well, we were very capable of winning.
Oh, ye of lot of faith.
The second half, much of it played in the Falcons' half but not really in the 22, made me think we are a team lacking confidence and direction, kicking long and not chasing, and generally looking aimless with the ball in hand.
Gopperth's kicking from hand wasn't as good after half-time, although he was unfairly picked on by some 'supporters' while being the only back in black looking vaguely capable of getting us back into the game.
Tom Biggs is still being criminally underused. What a waste, we might as well have my Grandma on the left wing, and she's been dead seven years.
By 70 minutes I for one had lost hope and when we got scrums I wasn't enthused. We'd mess about, kick and invite Saracens back at us. We were losing but you wouldn't have known it.
When Chris Wyles scored Saracens' third try to go seven ahead, I almost hoped they'd convert so the Master wouldn't be able to say “Yes it was bad but we got a bonus point from a team top of the league”.
They didn't convert, and Slacker pointed out that a converted try would get us a a draw. I said we didn't have a hope in hell of scoring a converted try and that if we did I'd give him the £30 I had in my pocket. It was very safe.
It it ironic the game ended with us on the away 22 line, I don't think we'd been there since the break.
I think that's enough ranting, so just one more thing. The Master's third honeymoon period after our summer signings is now firmly over. I want to see results and I don't mean two big wins in Europe. I mean wins in the league against Bath and Worcester.
On this evidence I'm not holding my breath.
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It gets worse
Posted by: FalconsRugby.org.uk (IP Logged)
Date: 05/10/2009 15:02
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Re: It gets worse
Posted by: Monkey1 (IP Logged)
Date: 05/10/2009 15:14
Quote:Leipy
I think that's enough ranting, so just one more thing. The Master's third honeymoon period after our summer signings is now firmly over. I want to see results and I don't mean two big wins in Europe. I mean wins in the league against Bath and Worcester.
I nominate that as quote of the season.
Re: It gets worse
Posted by: TouchLine (IP Logged)
Date: 05/10/2009 15:34
Blimey, there must be a serious shortage of Happy Pills if leipy's in that sort of fettle.
Re: It gets worse
Posted by: Leipziger (IP Logged)
Date: 05/10/2009 15:36
Lousy postmen,thanks to the strike I haven't had any for weeks.
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Re: It gets worse
Posted by: DGNTR (IP Logged)
Date: 05/10/2009 16:12
There's a strike on darn sarf, not up here, we look after our posties better and they don't mind coming to work.
Re: It gets worse
Posted by: TouchLine (IP Logged)
Date: 05/10/2009 16:39
Thought it was one for all etc with posties?
Re: It gets worse
Posted by: Monkey1 (IP Logged)
Date: 05/10/2009 22:18
Our postie at work had a good rant about the city lot having much easier jobs but being the first to complain.
Re: It gets worse
Posted by: steve1888 (IP Logged)
Date: 05/10/2009 22:19
few places had postie strikes further north too - more excuses for customer's late cheques.
Re: It gets worse
Posted by: Monkey1 (IP Logged)
Date: 05/10/2009 22:36
I noticed something funny about missing cheques just recently Steve. We are very prompt payers. We will wait until about Thursday for the last September invoices to trickle in from suppliers & will then have one payment session & clear the lot.
Preparing the end of year guff for the accountants I noted the first cheque gone missing that I can remember. Cheques going out just don't go astray, cheques due to us however are a different matter.
Now it is interesting that cheques from our good paying customers always seem to get to us on time, but cheques from the usual suspects, the ones we have to chase time & time again for payment, they seem to have terrible trouble getting through the postal system.
It is something very odd, I wonder if there is some explanation for this strange phenomenon?
Preparing the end of year guff for the accountants I noted the first cheque gone missing that I can remember. Cheques going out just don't go astray, cheques due to us however are a different matter.
Now it is interesting that cheques from our good paying customers always seem to get to us on time, but cheques from the usual suspects, the ones we have to chase time & time again for payment, they seem to have terrible trouble getting through the postal system.
It is something very odd, I wonder if there is some explanation for this strange phenomenon?
Re: It gets worse
Posted by: TouchLine (IP Logged)
Date: 05/10/2009 22:47
Do businesses till pay with cheques? We did it all by BACS years ago.
Re: It gets worse
Posted by: Monkey1 (IP Logged)
Date: 05/10/2009 23:00
We still get most payments by cheque, and we still pay by cheque too. We have tried paying by BACS but must have made an @#$%& of the checking procedures as we got a lot of errors that we simply never get with cheques. Similarly, we very rarely get a cheque for an erroneous amount, but BACS receipts are quite often a mess, duplicating previously paid invoices being the most common problem. For those reasons we will continue to use cheques for a while yet.
Re: It gets worse
Posted by: TouchLine (IP Logged)
Date: 05/10/2009 23:03
The system must have got belly up then. We used it routinely, one payment run a month and never a problem. All the salaries were done the same way.
I would thave thought it should be better now
I would thave thought it should be better now
Re: It gets worse
Posted by: Monkey1 (IP Logged)
Date: 05/10/2009 23:13
Not the payment system TL, BACS itself is fine, sending the right amount to the right accounts every time. For some odd reason it works for salaries & has done for years, but for supplier payments there must be a checking system that goes wrong somewhere. I suppose it is the same old conundrum, add something up from a list on a piece of paper & you know when something isn't right. Add up the same list on a spreadsheet & you have no idea if the answer is away with the pixies, you just assume the computer gets it right.
It doesn't.
It doesn't.
Re: It gets worse
Posted by: Mally (IP Logged)
Date: 06/10/2009 19:06
Leipy I think that has to be one of yoru best reports yet... good read mate!
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