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Post by interestedridersfan on Nov 19, 2018 15:31:02 GMT
Riders rotation that year was Watson Bernadini Anderson Wright Hassan With Washington Losonsky Rowe Yorick Lamble Losonsky actually played 30 games that year. Rowe played 32 although limited minutes. Eagles actually lost 3x to Worcester that season. But not to anyone else when it mattered. Wolves went 28-8 Cheshire had the cof***o team which was very talented (dinunno king hodge watt et al) but still dropped10 games. Would that group finish as low as fourth nowadays? Sheffield actually knocked Leicester out of playoffs despite only going 19-17. Probably where the league was weaker than now was the bottom 5 but not sure much difference at the top. Yes I forgot anderson. Think Rowe just played minor minutes each game in comparison coming back from a knee injury? Wright came in when Roland was cut? And yorrick towards end of the season? I do remember eagles winning some games that mattered that season with barely 5 fit players at some stage later on in the season? All the close games you just knew they would find a way to win. I was at both Riders playoff games v sharks. We actually lost that to sharks in the away leg, gave ourselves too much to do. But still nearly came back in the home leg. Away leg was the nail in Hassan's coffin for playing for us IMO. |
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Post by faz on Nov 19, 2018 15:49:09 GMT
Nix had a pretty poor start that year losing quite s few games early doors. I can’t remember the US guards name pre Dinuno but him, Gareth, Devon,Cruic and Karp all departed pretty early before King, Dinuno, Gayle, Stuart Hodge and ultimately Salisbury arrived.
Think only Watt, Aliu and maybe Dedyniv did the whole year
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Post by blueskies99 on Nov 19, 2018 16:30:10 GMT
Riders rotation that year was Watson Bernadini Anderson Wright Hassan With Washington Losonsky Rowe Yorick Lamble Losonsky actually played 30 games that year. Rowe played 32 although limited minutes. Eagles actually lost 3x to Worcester that season. But not to anyone else when it mattered. Wolves went 28-8 Cheshire had the cof***o team which was very talented (dinunno king hodge watt et al) but still dropped10 games. Would that group finish as low as fourth nowadays? Sheffield actually knocked Leicester out of playoffs despite only going 19-17. Probably where the league was weaker than now was the bottom 5 but not sure much difference at the top. Yes I forgot anderson. Think Rowe just played minor minutes each game in comparison coming back from a knee injury? Wright came in when Roland was cut? And yorrick towards end of the season? I do remember eagles winning some games that mattered that season with barely 5 fit players at some stage later on in the season? All the close games you just knew they would find a way to win. I was at both Riders playoff games v sharks. We actually lost that to sharks in the away leg, gave ourselves too much to do. But still nearly came back in the home leg. Away leg was the nail in Hassan's coffin for playing for us IMO. Cousinard only played at the John Sandford and that roster played out of Loughborough Uni. Also, Sulli was at the Lions that season. |
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Post by massiveridersfan on Nov 19, 2018 17:22:46 GMT
No such thing as a reason for losing, only an excuse Illogical, captain. If you were unable to make a game because of contracting flu would that be an excuse? No, it'd be a reason. Same principle. |
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Post by Steven McTowelie on Nov 19, 2018 18:28:16 GMT
Nix had a pretty poor start that year losing quite s few games early doors. I can’t remember the US guards name pre Dinuno but him, Gareth, Devon,Cruic and Karp all departed pretty early before King, Dinuno, Gayle, Stuart Hodge and ultimately Salisbury arrived. Think only Watt, Aliu and maybe Dedyniv did the whole year I love the way you butcher European names faz. I'm the OCD type who spends ten seconds looking something like that up before posting. You're the type that just takes a stab. You were confident that the player in question has a three syllable name containing a 'y' and a 'v'... And you were right (I think)! Pretty sure we're talking about Simeon Naydenov here. He wasn't there from the start but he did play the majority of the season, which was no mean feat on that team. Technically Cheshire started that season with only two Americans. The starting PG (Aleek Pauline) though American-born had a French passport. The headline American that year was supposed to be Renaldo Major but that deal never got over the line for some reason so King was signed instead. I've a feeling that business was concluded prior to the start of the season but King didn't play in Cheshire's curtain raiser against us. That was my one and only trip to 'Northgat Arena'. And it was bloody awful. Is never having been in a competition a good enough reason not to have won it? Or just another excuse? Also, of course, Riders were without Hampton, who seems to me to be the player that makes everything else happen. A big miss on the night. I've never bought the "we're so deep it doesn't matter" argument - take the pivotal player(s) out of any team and they will suffer and that was true of Riders on Saturday evening. (And before anyone thinks I am, I'm not having a go - take Fletcher out of the Eagles line-up and the same thing would happen). People seem to repeatedly miss the point with this. I don't think anyone (including IRF) has ever argued that Riders aren't a weaker, more beatable team when key players are missing. There'd be zero point in paying the likes of Hampton and Burnett if we were the exact same team without them. The point has only ever been that Riders deal with this type of adversity better than others. I don't know exactly what our record is across all competitions currently. Obviously not very good. But if you'd given that same outrageously difficult schedule to Newcastle or London and asked them to deal with injuries to half their roster (including key imports) in the process, I think both could potentially still be winless. |
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Post by interestedridersfan on Nov 19, 2018 18:40:09 GMT
Spot on.
We can have a couple of key players missing and still go into a BBL game thinking we can win
And being disappointed when we dont
As Steve says take a couple of key players out of eagles or Lions and it wouldn't be very competitive for very long
Eagles and Lions have had all of the advantages over us so far with injuries and fatigue
And those last two losses weve faced against them won't do us any harm next time we play them
Starting next week at Lions. That's going to be very tough
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2018 21:38:32 GMT
No such thing as a reason for losing, only an excuse Illogical, captain. If you were unable to make a game because of contracting flu would that be an excuse? No, it'd be a reason. Same principle. No that would be a reason for missing the game not losing it |
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