Re: Castleford Match Thread : Mon Apr 25, 2011 6:59 pm  

Play only has to be stopped for a head injury. If I am right in thinking that Huby picked up a knee injury then Bentham was right to let the game continue until the injured player was deemed to be in the way of play.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:21 pm  

I, & several others by me, thought we got every 50/50 call today.

Best team definitely lost for mine but you can't knock our desire & determination to win the match in that last 10 minutes when more than just a few were completely out on their feet.

If I were a Cas fan I'd feel robbed but that's the way it goes sometimes.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:29 pm  

BackrowSaint wrote:

Play only has to be stopped for a head injury. If I am right in thinking that Huby picked up a knee injury then Bentham was right to let the game continue until the injured player was deemed to be in the way of play.

Correct. When wheeler went down on Friday the game carried on for about 3/4 mins leaving us down to 12 men.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:34 pm  

Hopefully not all Saints fans are as biased as some.

I arent going to say Saints dont deserve the win, You guys went 100 metres in the last 2 minutes and managed to score. Well done.

All i will say, Is Castleford didnt deserve to lose, Albeit... Against a weakened Saints team. We were VERY good, Our goal line defence was superb, The best its been all season. And the only try we conceded on our goal line, for 74 minutes, Was from a blatant knock on. Which its absolutely astounding it was missed by the officials.

I havent seen the video, Apparently some say you maybe had 7 tackles late on, I didnt think so. But there was 1 occasion, With about 10 minutes to go, Where we were held on the 40 due to a late last tackle call from the idiot in the middle.

I thought Roby was ridiculous for you guys today, Made a lot of yards. And in the 2nd half. Was the only one causing us any problems, Our defence was good, Against your superior pack, And our kicking game was very good.

I thought you maybe got the 50/50 calls from the ref, But nobody could argue Cas' determination. We were there for every loose ball, And tbh. I think we deserved to win

Champion sides do what you did though, Just as Wigan did to you. A great game of RL

Just a shame there were a fair chunk of the crowd talking about the man in the middle again, And not the 34 players who served up another classic SL game.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:40 pm  

Dettoriman wrote:

Hopefully not all Saints fans are as biased as some.

I arent going to say Saints dont deserve the win, You guys went 100 metres in the last 2 minutes and managed to score. Well done.

All i will say, Is Castleford didnt deserve to lose, Albeit... Against a weakened Saints team. We were VERY good, Our goal line defence was superb, The best its been all season. And the only try we conceded on our goal line, for 74 minutes, Was from a blatant knock on. Which its absolutely astounding it was missed by the officials.

I havent seen the video, Apparently some say you maybe had 7 tackles late on, I didnt think so. But there was 1 occasion, With about 10 minutes to go, Where we were held on the 40 due to a late last tackle call from the idiot in the middle.

I thought Roby was ridiculous for you guys today, Made a lot of yards. And in the 2nd half. Was the only one causing us any problems, Our defence was good, Against your superior pack, And our kicking game was very good.

I thought you maybe got the 50/50 calls from the ref, But nobody could argue Cas' determination. We were there for every loose ball, And tbh. I think we deserved to win

Champion sides do what you did though, Just as Wigan did to you. A great game of RL

Just a shame there were a fair chunk of the crowd talking about the man in the middle again, And not the 34 players who served up another classic SL game.

agree with most of that, yes we got most of the 50/50 calls, but we got few of them on friday, its how it goes. on friday our defence was finished after 79 mins, yours was today

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:42 pm  

This isn't aimed at today's game but I often wonder with rugby as it Is now a days that castlefords face doesn't fit for top of league. Referees can lose you a game and as of the last 3 games we have got nothing. It does seem like sour grapes from me but it's just I think referees can't be that bad....surely? I like saints though so I don't want to start an argument over me moaning.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:43 pm  

Just to echo what has been said really, I don't think Bentham had a bad game per se, simply that he got the two big decisions that cost us the game wrong. The try in the first half where Soliola appeared to drop the ball and pick it up again (which, when Rangi Chase did in the second half was classed as a knock on) was crucial, as was the decision to award the scrum to you guys when Shenton threw the ball forward inside your own half. However, as dissappointing as it was, it was nice to chat to some gracious Saints fans on the way out.
Full credit to your young guys for hanging in there anyway, and all the best for the rest of the season.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:40 pm  

No1 Saint wrote:

Anyone who has played or watches amateur rugby will tell you it happens a fair bit

Except this isn't amateur rugby and no way did Bentman know whether Huby had a head injury or not. The guy didn't move. He was flat out. That looked like a head injury from the East Stand. We thought he had clashed heads. It was totally wrong not to stop play just as it was when Silverdud didn't stop play for Wheeler on Friday. Why should a team have to defend with 12 men other than as a punishment? Poor form, that was.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:43 pm  

Dettoriman wrote:

All i will say, Is Castleford didnt deserve to lose,

I agree. We got lucky at the end. Meli had been a lazy butt all game and then decides to deprive me of some abusive posts on here by scoring the match leveller. We know how you feel. We were the same on Friday. We were all over Wigan until Hoffman took out Wheeler. We still came back and were in the lead in the second half, but we lost. It's a real sickener and it took me all weekend to get over it. You were the better team today. But we got lucky at the end there and I can't give you those two points back. Sorry. We need them!

Best of luck for the rest of the season though.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:50 pm  

Its alright, Its our own faults. We probably should have won at Bradford

And definitely threw away now 3 games on the trot. Cas should have a 100% record. Which, Is absurd.