[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: RD 17 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Mon Aug 02, 2021 8:57 am  

I want to see games decided on ability and at full strength.

If this world cup debacle is not being rectified and we cant get the Aussies and Kiwi's over we need to knock it on the head and get the season stretched out instead of ludicrous 3 games in 10 days nonsense thats repeatedly happening to teams. We need to be showcasing our game at the highest performance levels and at the moment we are seeing more and more fatigued teams playing punch drunk half cocked squads.

Re: RD 17 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Mon Aug 02, 2021 9:17 am  

Maybe Agar did make a couple of mistakes last night, but I still think the ledger is balanced in his favour. The most crucial mistake was made by the video ref. Players make errors because they are often injured and exhausted, which hopefully we can accept as fans. Hicks failure to note the clear video evidence can only suggest he'd popped out for a brew, missed it, and just assumed Kendall had got it right. Genuinely a massive call in the context of the game and I sincerely believe Leeds would have won otherwise. Would love to hear Hicks explanation, but will more likely hear that Agar is up before the beak for insubordination. None of this is meant to decry Warrington, who I thought were excellent to watch.

Re: RD 17 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Mon Aug 02, 2021 9:26 am  

Dumb rugby by some of our players (along with a horrendous VR decision) cost us the game not Agar.

Re: RD 17 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Mon Aug 02, 2021 9:45 am  

Trebor1 wrote:

Dumb rugby by some of our players (along with a horrendous VR decision) cost us the game not Agar.

Quite, 6 up with 5 minutes to go we should have been able to manage that

Newman and Prior bombing an easy score didn’t help either

Re: RD 17 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Mon Aug 02, 2021 9:53 am  

Leeds bombed it. Not playing Vuniyayawa when the pack was exhausted is absolutely inexcusable. Dealing with awful refs is to be expected nowadays for all SL teams.

We have a lot to be excited about still. I think if we can retain Holroyd and Martin, bring in Austin and a top winger similar to Scott Donald alongside Handley then we would be genuine contenders next season.

1. Myler
2. Scott Donald type winger 3. Newman 4. Broadbent 5. Handley
6. Austin 7. Sezer
8. Oledzki 9. Leeming 10. Prior
11. Bentley 12. Martin
13. Tetevano

14. Dwyer
15. Smith
16. Holroyd
17. Mellor

Re: RD 17 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Mon Aug 02, 2021 9:53 am  

Trebor1 wrote:

Dumb rugby by some of our players (along with a horrendous VR decision) cost us the game not Agar.

Their last Try was a DH run at a gassed & injured Tetevano & Dwyer we had an unused Prop on the bench & a lad used to playing 9 carrying the kicking tee & water.
Agar cost us as much as any plater his selection & squad rotation were shocking lsst night.

Re: RD 17 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Mon Aug 02, 2021 10:09 am  

RHINO-MARK wrote:

Their last Try was a DH run at a gassed & injured Tetevano & Dwyer we had an unused Prop on the bench & a lad used to playing 9 carrying the kicking tee & water.
Agar cost us as much as any plater his selection & squad rotation were shocking lsst night.

Yeh got to agree with most of this.
The team made mistakes in the last few minutes.
But Tetevano was clearly gassed - he’s coming off a 6 week lay off with COVID, no wonder!
Poor decision to play him so long when we have King on the bench.
And in hindsight, a poor decision to play Briscoe at dummy half. O’Connor was the obvious choice.
Dwyer was also gassed after playing for so long, so it was a big risk.
But Agar has credit for me, especially with Kev leaving.
I think he’ll be disappointed with some of his decisions this morning though….

Re: RD 17 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Mon Aug 02, 2021 10:39 am  

RHINO-MARK wrote:

Their last Try was a DH run at a gassed & injured Tetevano & Dwyer we had an unused Prop on the bench & a lad used to playing 9 carrying the kicking tee & water.
Agar cost us as much as any plater his selection & squad rotation were shocking lsst night.

People are forgetting the first half. We gifted them two tries straight after we’d scored through dropped balls from the kick offs and lazy D from Prior. That was nothing to do with Agars use of subs. Warrington had no ball in the first half yet scored 2 try’s

Re: RD 17 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Mon Aug 02, 2021 10:41 am  

The 2 aren't mutually exclusive all the factors mentioned contributed to defeat including agars decisions.

Re: RD 17 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Mon Aug 02, 2021 10:43 am  

I do agree Seth re Agars subs, it certainly didn’t help but for me the weight of the blame is on the players. We were the best side imo and should have won comfortably