Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Leigh (NRC Final) : Sun Jul 21, 2013 4:42 pm  

A tremendous match indeed ,very enjoyable Mr Maden must learn to rein in His temper a little better, but He certainly sorted Higgins out with a flurry of punches all of which landed, definitely the turning point was the return to the field of Parker and Hopkins, enjoyed the drink in dirty dick's and a good chat with E.S.O.

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Leigh (NRC Final) : Sun Jul 21, 2013 6:14 pm  

Tin Can Dribbler wrote:

Two turning points for me. The sendings off the first and the second was at 8 points up in the second half, Q elected to go himself instead of passing to the two unmarked players on his right and at 14 points in the lead things would have been different. Q redeemed himself passing to the right where he was penalised by a man in a blue top who then changed his mind and allowed us to play on despite momentum being lost, resulting in an interception.

Didn't see the Q incident very well from the Skircoate Stand and even on the tv it doesn't show up well. A very from t'back o't'sticks would've been nice.

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Leigh (NRC Final) : Sun Jul 21, 2013 6:17 pm  

Incidentally, did anyone notice how the sticks at the North end kept closing up ? Very strange. A bloke came out and fixed them before Leigh kicked towards that end but by the time we kicked that way they'd closed up again. Never seen that before.

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Leigh (NRC Final) : Sun Jul 21, 2013 6:22 pm  

I agree that the turning point was the sendings off, but I think a factor arising from them came because we lost a forward, Leigh lost a back. Coming just before the last quarter of a hard-fought (in more ways than one) match, it meant that our forwards had more work to do, got more tired and weren't able to give the half backs as much room to create. That combined with yet more poor ball control allowed Leigh to build an in-the-end deserved victory.

One of my three non-regular companions commented as we came in that he thought posts were supposed to be parallel. I also thought that refreshment bars usually stocked up before a match so they didn't run out of everything. Perhaps the Shay ought to pull their socks up if they host another final - it's becoming a niceish ground otherwise.

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Leigh (NRC Final) : Sun Jul 21, 2013 6:41 pm  

Peteagle wrote:

I agree that the turning point was the sendings off, but I think a factor arising from them came because we lost a forward, Leigh lost a back. Coming just before the last quarter of a hard-fought (in more ways than one) match, it meant that our forwards had more work to do, got more tired and weren't able to give the half backs as much room to create. That combined with yet more poor ball control allowed Leigh to build an in-the-end deserved victory.

Exactly. Like swapping a pawn for a queen at chess.

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Leigh (NRC Final) : Sun Jul 21, 2013 7:42 pm  

griff1998 wrote:

Incidentally, did anyone notice how the sticks at the North end kept closing up ? Very strange. A bloke came out and fixed them before Leigh kicked towards that end but by the time we kicked that way they'd closed up again. Never seen that before.

Is that a lame excuse for defeat?

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Leigh (NRC Final) : Sun Jul 21, 2013 8:02 pm  

griff1998 wrote:

Incidentally, did anyone notice how the sticks at the North end kept closing up ? Very strange. A bloke came out and fixed them before Leigh kicked towards that end but by the time we kicked that way they'd closed up again. Never seen that before.

I cant remember them closing up but i did see the bloke messing around with them then again i'd had alot to drink

No idea what the problem was though nobody mentioned it around me

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Leigh (NRC Final) : Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:37 am  

Bartholemew Smythe wrote:

Is that a lame excuse for defeat?

Turned the game, definitely.

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Leigh (NRC Final) : Mon Jul 22, 2013 11:40 am  

griff1998 wrote:

Exactly. Like swapping a pawn for a queen at chess.

After watching the game yesterday on Premier Sports , I would call Ste Maden a "Queen ", or even Higgins a "Pawn ", more like a PRAWN Charlie told you the Leigh forwards were FAR superior to the seagulls ,and we just UNPLUGGED THE JUKEBOX .

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Leigh (NRC Final) : Mon Jul 22, 2013 12:52 pm  

peawapp wrote:

A tremendous match indeed ,very enjoyable Mr Maden must learn to rein in His temper a little better, but He certainly sorted Higgins out with a flurry of punches all of which landed, definitely the turning point was the return to the field of Parker and Hopkins, enjoyed the drink in dirty dick's and a good chat with E.S.O.

Good to meet you peawapp.

Pretty much as everyone else has said, turning point was the sending off, Leigh managed much better than 12 than we did. Also Q's brainfart not to pass the ball on a 3 man overlap which would have given us a 14 point lead.

Two really disappointing defeats, still pretty gutted. Just hope a very good season with a lot of tremendous work isn't beginning to unravel.