Re: Castleford Match Thread : Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:35 am  

He was similar at Wigan, although I understand he has just come back from injury so I'll give him a bit of slack. I'd still expect him to go looking for a bit more work though, like Shenton did.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Tue Apr 26, 2011 2:02 pm  

Very good game played by 2 very good teams. Some times you have to take the good with the bad. Even though i'm as gutted as you no doubt were on Friday, I'll look at the positives. We gave you a very good game and have obviously proven we've made 100% progress on last year and are a match for anyone. The superleague is getting stronger and that's what we all want. All the best saints fans see ya next year.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:35 pm  

The player at fault was the Castleford player who wrongly kicked the ball up into the air with 2 minutes only to go when winning! a kick into touch would have slowed the game right down and would there have been enough time after the scrum to go down field and score, but like wrong referee decisions we will never know?

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:36 pm  

What stick did Richie Mathers get? And how did he react? Heard he reacted to some abuse from Saints fans.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Tue Apr 26, 2011 4:57 pm  

Lord Tony Smith wrote:

What stick did Richie Mathers get? And how did he react? Heard he reacted to some abuse from Saints fans.

I think it was all on Twitter post-match, rather than at the game.

He posted a couple of tweets about how they'd had nothing from the ref, but what seemed to trigger it was a tweet he sent to Lee Smith about bad reffing calls (again) and reporting that "that winger" kicked a goal to win it.

Some Saints fans felt it was deliberately disrespectful to Foster.

Summat and nowt, really.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:00 pm  

Cragganmore Kid wrote:

I think it was all on Twitter post-match, rather than at the game.

He posted a couple of tweets about how they'd had nothing from the ref, but what seemed to trigger it was a tweet he sent to Lee Smith about bad reffing calls (again) and reporting that "that winger" kicked a goal to win it.

Some Saints fans felt it was deliberately disrespectful to Foster.

Summat and nowt, really.

I'll bet Foster doesnt give a stuff what Mathers thinks lol , he picked up his winning money at the end of the day and Mathers got probably the biggest hit of the day .. on him

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:04 pm  

No1 Saint wrote:

I'll bet Foster doesnt give a stuff what Mathers thinks lol , he picked up his winning money at the end of the day and Mathers got probably the biggest hit of the day .. on him

Quite.

Rather than being disrespectful, I imagine Mathers genuinely couldn't think of his name - after all, he'd used all his brain capacity remembering his Twitter log in.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:08 pm  

It was all after the game and it came about Mathers praising Foster but not getting his name correct, for which he quickly apologised! but the attacks and some of the comments from so called RL fans was a Total Disgrace to our great game! so it was really nothing and I have seen worse things from young players, in fact some are in fact stupid the things they do say on twitter! and are tweeting complaining they can't sleep early hours of a match day! if you can't sleep it will not do you good to turn on your iPhone to tell the world you can't sleep, it makes the mind even more active!

Some fans get too far uptight!!!! In fact you don't need to log in,

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:06 pm  

jaybs wrote:

It was all after the game and it came about Mathers praising Foster but not getting his name correct, for which he quickly apologised! but the attacks and some of the comments from so called RL fans was a Total Disgrace to our great game! so it was really nothing and I have seen worse things from young players, in fact some are in fact stupid the things they do say on twitter! and are tweeting complaining they can't sleep early hours of a match day! if you can't sleep it will not do you good to turn on your iPhone to tell the world you can't sleep, it makes the mind even more active!

Some fans get too far uptight!!!! In fact you don't need to log in,

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It wasn't about him getting his name wrong, it was about calling him 'that winger' which comes across as very disrespectful to a fellow professional me, intentional or not. Putting 'their' or 'the' would not have resulted in the same backlash IMO. Perhaps he will think before typing in future.

Though some of the abuse was over the top, and that's only what I saw.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:09 pm  

Cragganmore Kid wrote:

Some Saints fans felt it was deliberately disrespectful to Foster.

Summat and nowt, really.

The kind of things the Saints fans were saying to Mathers, though, were really embarrassing. They were spitting tweets at the bloke. It took Jamie Foster intervening to stop the bile. Embarrassing. I hope it doesn't put the Saints players off tweeting as I've really enjoyed following Wello's banter with Foster. Those two are hilarious sometimes.

Poor ole Mathers just forgot Foster's name.