: Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:28 am  

Staffs FC wrote:

Totally agree with your points but in fairness to Ewan Dowes see above

It's the numbers I blame. Commentator's nightmare. 6/8?

: Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:30 am  

The Key wrote:

The reason why I didn't think it was at a crucial time in the game was because Castleford seemed to keep coming back at us all game, so if that had been a try then I think Cas would have still thought back. Whereas the other incidents may have been at a stage of the game where we could have killed them off. If Hornes attempt at a DG had gone over, that would have been a 7 point lead. I would say at that stage of the game, Cas would have changed the way they played to try and get the game back which we would have taken advantage of.
And I realise after Thormans attempts the week before at Bradford he didn't loom that good but I'm under the impression he is sually good at DG's?

I see what your saying, and it's one of those things we'll never know. I just thought that after they kept coming back, Briscoe going in could/would have finally been the moment we broke their resolve and they'd start to think it wasn't to be. On the contrary, the fact that we bombed it gave them a further lift IMO.

: Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:30 am  

carl_spackler wrote:

It's the numbers I blame. Commentator's nightmare. 6/8?

You are Eddie Hemmings and i claim my £5

: Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:32 am  

carl_spackler wrote:

Exactly. If there's one glaring individual error in a narrow defeat, the loss can arguably be attributed to the one at fault. But in a game like Friday, when IMO almost all simply didn't turn up, too much goes on to single a few out.

Yup. Our completion rate must have been pathetically low, we had to overwork in defence because of it which lead to fatigue, factoring that with Agar not using his subs particularly well etc all leads to a poor performance. The players were knackered, although to be fair they were making errors from minute 1 so fatigue cant be attributed to our performance too much in the 1st half for me. (and we were winning at HT)

Just think overall it was a game to learn from, we could have still won and we played bad. Whats that say about our resilience for example.

: Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:32 am  

Staffs FC wrote:

Totally agree with your points but in fairness to Ewan Dowes see above

I was to hear last night that Cullen said he doesn't think R. Horne is good defensively? He's the best defensive HB in the league imo.

: Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:32 am  

Irregs #16 wrote:

What gets me about the set leading to there drop goal is that we should have known it was coming.

That's what I thought was the worst part too. It had to be coming, so we should have made sure our players with the most energy/pace left were in the right place to chase it down.

: Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:33 am  

Irregs #16 wrote:

You are Eddie Hemmings and i claim my £5

I was waiting for that.

: Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:38 am  

carl_spackler wrote:

I disagree. I think at the stage it was it would have just given us enough impetus and hurt Castelford enough for us to go on and win.



Debatable after the previous week.

I believe that had we gone 12 points ahead we would have won the game. Castleford would have had to score 3 times to WIN the game and that makes a difference IMO. Maybe justified the decision to run rather then take the 2 as well!

We just couldnt kill the game and Cas were always kept within striking difference and played that way.

Also Horne has kicked plenty of drop goals before to justify putting himself in that position...rubbish effort though.

: Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:41 am  

carl_spackler wrote:

It's the numbers I blame. Commentator's nightmare. 6/8?

: Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:44 am  

carl_spackler wrote:

IOr are they not entitled to opinions because theirs happen to disagree?

Not at all, everyone is entitled to their opinion, well, apart from fc baldy!