2 ways of looking at it : Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:10 pm  

We could quite easily have won all our league games so far this season

Both close defeats to Batley and Barrow where if we had played for the whole 80 minutes we would have won both

We could also quite easily have lost all our league matches as well as all three have been close wins especially Sheffield and Widnes

So should we be happy or dissapointed


I thought we actually played much better yesterday in the first half than we have done so far this season

Then it all just fell apart

Hopefully we will be able to keep it all together next week

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:26 pm  

Or a 3rd way of looking at it - we got beat by currently best team outside SL.

What made it more difficult to take the 2nd half collapse is who saw it coming at half time? We get great result away at Widnes, and storm to comfortable lead, and look like cruising - and just when our expectations reach the possibility of a double weekend win......

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:29 pm  

Leeeigh Leeeigh wrote:

Or a 3rd way of looking at it - we got beat by currently best team outside SL.
What made it more difficult to take the 2nd half collapse is who saw it coming at half time? We get great result away at Widnes, and storm to comfortable lead, and look like cruising - and just when our expectations reach the possibility of a double weekend win......

They were garbage for the 1 st half , I was very dissapointed in then , I was expecting much more

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:12 pm  

Starbug wrote:

They were garbage for the 1 st half , I was very dissapointed in then , I was expecting much more

In total agreement over their 1st half performance... thought they were the absolutely clueless, a bit like we were in the 2nd....

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:23 pm  

I think Barrow played poor in the first half possibly due to playing Fax, Wigan and Whitehaven in the last couple of weeks. Some of the players could be feeling the effects of the easter period and will be glad for a weekend off.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:25 pm  

gaz martin wrote:

I think Barrow played poor in the first half possibly due to playing Fax, Wigan and Whitehaven in the last couple of weeks. Some of the players could be feeling the effects of the easter period and will be glad for a weekend off.

IMO the possibility of the fatigue element taking its toll would `ve occurred in the 2nd half...

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:36 pm  

I also wondered if Barrow were showing the after effects of a full blown Cumbrian derby played out less than 72 hours previously. A little like in 2006 when we demolished Widnes on Good Friday by some 50 points, only to get hammered by 30 points up at Hull KR on the Easter Monday.

Barrow however certainly have a sprinkling of quality players at this level.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:57 pm  

we didnt put enough points on the board in the first half and fell apart ompletly in the second half when watto went off

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:25 pm  

make mine a pint wrote:

we didnt put enough points on the board in the first half and fell apart ompletly in the second half when watto went off

It's a problem - we aren't currently capable of high scores.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:40 pm  

Leeeigh Leeeigh wrote:

Or a 3rd way of looking at it - we got beat by currently best team outside SL.

What made it more difficult to take the 2nd half collapse is who saw it coming at half time? We get great result away at Widnes, and storm to comfortable lead, and look like cruising - and just when our expectations reach the possibility of a double weekend win......

I think Halifax are the best team outside SL to be honest mate.