: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:42 am
This bit from Morro's blog struck me as significant:
Glen Morrison wrote:
Dave Halley was Man of the Match on SKY and he had a blinder. He is doing just what we want our full back to do, which is catch that ball on the full and make as many yards as possible and he did that and a whole lot more. He looks to have grabbed the position with two hands and made it his own and that's what we need. He really deserved the Man of the Match.
Trying to move on from the Platt/Halley extended debates of recent weeks/months/years/millennia, reading that gives me the impression that the issue is decided. He's certainly making it clear what his own opinion is - and the implied criticism of Platt is surely hard to miss? I'm assuming that whatever assistance he may get in writing it its still his own underlying views - and its unlikely that those views would be expressed on the club official site if his views were significantly at variance with those of others at the club?
I guess we'll be pretty clear if Halley runs out at FB again tonight.
Whilst on the subject of the blog, this bit was interesting too:
Glenn Morrison wrote:
There were a lot of Bulls supporters there and they made themselves heard again. There was a lot behind the sticks and that's what we need. We have had some big support in the past but they have been a bit quiet. We have seen at other grounds supporters shouting, ‘forward', ‘offside', ‘penalty', even when they are not and we got that on Friday and against Wakefield and that puts pressure on the Ref to make the fifty - fifty calls. We need that and it was noticeable in both games.
Some people pontificate that the crowd's calls have no bearing on the ref's decision-making or mindset. My view has always been that refs are only human (apart from Klein, obviously) and so crowd pressure MUST have some effect. Seems that's Morro's view too.
