Re: Tonights Game V Castleford : Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:25 pm  

True. But done out of two tries that win the game. Had enough chances to win but poor officiating full stop. Thaler is in the PERFECT position to give mylers try yet goes upstairs. If I were his boss I'd rag him in on Monday and say 'if you can't decide on that Ben then you're not fit to referee'

Re: Tonights Game V Castleford : Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:27 pm  

ratticusfinch wrote:

True. But done out of two tries that win the game. Had enough chances to win but poor officiating full stop. Thaler is in the PERFECT position to give mylers try yet goes upstairs. If I were his boss I'd rag him in on Monday and say 'if you can't decide on that Ben then you're not fit to referee'

I would be having words with the video ref first - he gets to spend 2 minutes watching replays and still he can't make the right call.

Re: Tonights Game V Castleford : Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:30 pm  

jj86 wrote:

I would be having words with the video ref first - he gets to spend 2 minutes watching replays and still he can't make the right call.

I'd send all the referees a dictionary and ask them to look up the word 'conclusive'.

Re: Tonights Game V Castleford : Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:34 pm  

Thelonius wrote:

I'd send all the referees a dictionary and ask them to look up the word 'conclusive'.

If they are doing that they may as well stop at competent before they get to conclusive.

Re: Tonights Game V Castleford : Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:47 pm  

Thought you were unlucky with the Penny no try, there may have been a knock on by Atkins but I didn't think there was conclusive proof to overturn the on-field decision. I was surprised when it was disallowed.
I though both sides could claim decisions went against them. Cas kicked a perfectly good 40-20 and the touch judge clearly missed Ratchford having his foot on the line when he knocked it back into the field. There were also two clear forward passes, one in the build up to a Warrington try. At times, both teams were their own worst enemies, particularly giving away stupid penalties at really bad times (Westwood ball steal, Ratchford dragging after the tackle).
Ultimately, Warrington had enough chances to win the game but weren't quite smooth enough near the line. I couldn't believe the number of passes thrown into the crowd.
Game could have gone either way in the fina 10 minutes. On this occassion it went Cas' way.

Re: Tonights Game V Castleford : Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:50 pm  

nottinghamtiger wrote:

Thought you were unlucky with the Penny no try, there may have been a knock on by Atkins but I didn't think there was conclusive proof to overturn the on-field decision. I was surprised when it was disallowed.
I though both sides could claim decisions went against them. Cas kicked a perfectly good 40-20 and the touch judge clearly missed Ratchford having his foot on the line when he knocked it back into the field. There were also two clear forward passes, one in the build up to a Warrington try. At times, both teams were their own worst enemies, particularly giving away stupid penalties at really bad times (Westwood ball steal, Ratchford dragging after the tackle).
Ultimately, Warrington had enough chances to win the game but weren't quite smooth enough near the line. I couldn't believe the number of passes thrown into the crowd.
Game could have gone either way in the fina 10 minutes. On this occassion it went Cas' way.

The Westwood ball steal that never was and the ratchford drag that was a voluntary tackle (is that still a rule? Haven't seen a penalty given for one in years)

Re: Tonights Game V Castleford : Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:53 pm  

jj86 wrote:

The Westwood ball steal that never was and the ratchford drag that was a voluntary tackle (is that still a rule? Haven't seen a penalty given for one in years)

I think it was more the stupidity of conceding a further 10m for arguing rather than the actual penalty, which looked like a ball steal to me but I haven't seen it again on TV.
Ratchford clearly dragged after completing a tackle, even if the player surrenders he cannot drag after completing the tackle.

Re: Tonights Game V Castleford : Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:56 pm  

Both teams were poor. It was a generally poor game.

We did have a perfectly good try disallowed, I'd also like to see the Evans try because from the one replay I've seen it didn't look forward from Ratch, and how on Earth was that not a two-man strip on Clark that set up their winning DG?! That last one was a farce of a decision.

But good luck to Cas for the rest of the season, they're the only team above us I don't mind.

Re: Tonights Game V Castleford : Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:58 pm  

BuckleyStreetWire wrote:

Both teams were poor. It was a generally poor game.

We did have a perfectly good try disallowed, I'd also like to see the Evans try because from the one replay I've seen it didn't look forward from Ratch, and how on Earth was that not a two-man strip on Clark that set up their winning DG?! That last one was a farce of a decision.

Nah, it was a "loose carry"!

Re: Tonights Game V Castleford : Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:58 pm  

nottinghamtiger wrote:

I think it was more the stupidity of conceding a further 10m for arguing rather than the actual penalty, which looked like a ball steal to me but I haven't seen it again on TV.
Ratchford clearly dragged after completing a tackle, even if the player surrenders he cannot drag after completing the tackle.

Stupid yes but when you should be packing down for a scrum on the opponents 10m line but are instead running back to halfway you can understand the frustration.

It wasn't surrendering it was a voluntary tackle.