Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:14 pm  

Bully_Boxer wrote:

The comment wasn't aimed particularly at yourself if that's what you assumed.

I don't 'think' Nielsen has copped some flak, I've read plenty on social media and heard it on the terraces. I had some old fella stood behind me at the Widnes match slating him most of the match. Unfortunately he disappeared before the final hooter and missed him being announced our MoM for that particular game.

I don't rate Blythe at centre at all, Nielsen won't get a decent pass all match if he's outside Blythe. The decision to go with only 1 of our regular wingers is a strange one by Lowes, as I say it'll be interesting to see his 17.

Totally agree. Which is the worst, a novice winger or a weak attacking centre? I'd rather specialists in both.

Did Ryan play some of the Halifax game at centre? I know he was operating down the left channel but I'd had a few pots and can't remember. Perhaps Jimmy liked what he saw? I know he played the majority of the year at Wakey in the centre.

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:42 pm  

Sensei-Bull wrote:

......... Simple game plan for Wakey if he does, bombs/crossfield kicks/kicks in behind him. They could stitch him up like a good un........

Soon as I read that I had flashbacks about St Helens bombing little Graham to death in one of those Finals that we should have won!

Now I've noticed Jordan Pansey's name in the Wakei squad we really need a fair video & ref - how did he ever get away with that off-side try from Sinfields miss kick = oh I remember, bent Ganson didn't understand the rules and didn't go to the video!
How to spoil a good game of rugby - employ a bent ref!

Maybe it wont come down to which players are picked; or which team plays best; but how good the ref is - oh I hope not - for both sides sakes.

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Fri Oct 02, 2015 8:55 am  

Smack him Jimmy wrote:

Soon as I read that I had flashbacks about St Helens bombing little Graham to death in one of those Finals that we should have won!

Now I've noticed Jordan Pansey's name in the Wakei squad we really need a fair video & ref - how did he ever get away with that off-side try from Sinfields miss kick = oh I remember, bent Ganson didn't understand the rules and didn't go to the video!
How to spoil a good game of rugby - employ a bent ref!

Maybe it wont come down to which players are picked; or which team plays best; but how good the ref is - oh I hope not - for both sides sakes.

I thought the problem with that was that Ganson listened to the Video ref when he shouldn't have and awarded the penalty. One that in fact was incorrrect too!

If anything we should applaud everyone's favourite Jade goody lookalike for chasing after a lost cause (even if he did start in an offside position).

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Fri Oct 02, 2015 9:12 am  

Wasn't the ref Ashley Klein with Ganson as VR.

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Fri Oct 02, 2015 9:39 am  

Other way round, really takes the pi$$ that he looked at both touch judges before awarding the try

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Fri Oct 02, 2015 9:58 am  

Ganson was fooled by Klown, and while he shouldn't have been taking illicit advice from the VR, he was on the QT not as a one-off but because despite the loose "rules", that was how they all worked it.

The bitter pill for me was that it never looked like a knock-on by Harris even live, something odd happened but nothing you could be confident WAS DEFINITELY a knock-on - yet Klown took it upon himself to claim he had seen a definite thing which we now now never happened. At such a critical point in the biggest game. And to bark that down Ganson's earpiece.

I can't blame Ganson for listening. After all, he would be sure that Klown wouldn't depart from protocol unless he was certain Ganson had missed a key event. Having had the illicit call - what would YOU have done if you were Ganson - ignore it, and knowingly let the "offending" team benefit? I don't think many would.

I have no clue how neither Ganson nor the self-styled Hawkeye Klown never saw Tansey run offside. And I have no idea even if they didn't see it, why the thought didn't at least occur to Ganson that one explanation for Tansey being a furlong down the field might just be he was offside. Before and since, they ask the VR to "just check the onside and grounding" as a matter of routine if there is even a chance of offside and yet in that key moment, Ganson chose not to. That's what I was pisssed off with him about.

But at least Ganson had the balls to apologise for the farrago. The arrogant Klown never did.

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Fri Oct 02, 2015 11:06 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Ganson was fooled by Klown, and while he shouldn't have been taking illicit advice from the VR, he was on the QT not as a one-off but because despite the loose "rules", that was how they all worked it.

The bitter pill for me was that it never looked like a knock-on by Harris even live, something odd happened but nothing you could be confident WAS DEFINITELY a knock-on - yet Klown took it upon himself to claim he had seen a definite thing which we now now never happened. At such a critical point in the biggest game. And to bark that down Ganson's earpiece.

I can't blame Ganson for listening. After all, he would be sure that Klown wouldn't depart from protocol unless he was certain Ganson had missed a key event. Having had the illicit call - what would YOU have done if you were Ganson - ignore it, and knowingly let the "offending" team benefit? I don't think many would.

I have no clue how neither Ganson nor the self-styled Hawkeye Klown never saw Tansey run offside. And I have no idea even if they didn't see it, why the thought didn't at least occur to Ganson that one explanation for Tansey being a furlong down the field might just be he was offside. Before and since, they ask the VR to "just check the onside and grounding" as a matter of routine if there is even a chance of offside and yet in that key moment, Ganson chose not to. That's what I was pisssed off with him about.

But at least Ganson had the balls to apologise for the farrago. The arrogant Klown never did.

I have no clue either but what I do know and we can all be sure of is that Jordan Tansey is a dead ringer for Jade Goody:



Jordan Tansey



Jade Goody

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Fri Oct 02, 2015 11:11 am  

Did we end up getting the 2 points back from Leeds after Peter Hood asked for them

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Fri Oct 02, 2015 11:34 am  

roger daly wrote:

Did we end up getting the 2 points back from Leeds after Peter Hood asked for them

Yes. After we went bust, I bought them off the liquidator, for £1.50 and I keep them in a box in the loft. You never know when they might come in.

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Fri Oct 02, 2015 1:26 pm  

Random Useless Fact - Tomorrow is the first time we have played in October for 9 years!

Thought it might have been 10 and the 2005 GF but apparently the game where Hull FC beat us in the SL semi was in October. I know we reached the playoffs a couple more times, but you forget what it is like for the end of the season to mean something!