Re: What a Performance : Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:37 pm  

Jones numerous brain farts probably had more relevense than Nash late high shot. Halifax played very well considering both halves were anonymous for large parts of the game, and as said previously decision making poor by them too. For a neutral though great game.

Re: What a Performance : Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:47 pm  

quinny wrote:

Jones numerous brain farts probably had more relevense than Nash late high shot. Halifax played very well considering both halves were anonymous for large parts of the game, and as said previously decision making poor by them too. For a neutral though great game.

I didnt think Jonesy played that bad to be fair and i can only recall 2 incidents that he may have got wrong. The pass out wide to white who was immediately shoved into touch and the 2nd was when he charged the kick down and gave leigh the repeat set but even that im unsure could be called a 'Brainfart' as im not sure it was a drop goal attempt..either way i though the lads played well.

Re: What a Performance : Mon Jul 18, 2011 5:38 pm  

thought Greenwood was your best player on the day......closely followed by the BEST winger outside SL in Worrincy............. great game that deserved to go to golden point - but chuffed that we snatched it.

Re: What a Performance : Mon Jul 18, 2011 7:06 pm  

Good game, a couple of wrong decisions late on (in hindsight).
The ref was poor, too young, should be playing at some level, imo time for calland to be replaced by a coach
who can get the team fit and motivated without bringing his over rated and over paid mate in.

Re: What a Performance : Mon Jul 18, 2011 7:30 pm  

lets not forget Jones' brilliant pressure conversion which could have seen us home, and the fact that he kicked us to blackpool in the first place

Re: What a Performance : Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:16 pm  

for-FAX-sake wrote:

I didnt think Jonesy played that bad to be fair and i can only recall 2 incidents that he may have got wrong. The pass out wide to white who was immediately shoved into touch and the 2nd was when he charged the kick down and gave leigh the repeat set but even that im unsure could be called a 'Brainfart' as im not sure it was a drop goal attempt..either way i though the lads played well.

i think maybe caught in possession on the 5th late in the game in his own half, and shooting out of the line at the end creating a huge gap which gave them the winning score. You could say he was trying to block the drop but he isnt the quickest to be attempting that and Ridyard skipped around him like he was not there.
also thought with the worrincy / beswick incident after worrincy was tackled and the ball was played to black he was less than 20 metres away from goal bang in front and should have taken a simple one point and that would have been a seven point lead and no coming back at that stage you would have to say. A bit of composure from the halfs in that situation could have won the match but neither showed any, and instead took it out left where leigh had ample cover and white ended up in touch.
I agree that the game should have been put to bed before nash made a stupid high shot which was the final nail in the coffin.
I think Halifax were great in many areas and were dominant for a large part of the game in the forwards, but the halves failed to capitalise. all in all a great effort and a good advert for Championship rugby

Re: What a Performance : Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:05 pm  

freddy wrote:

Over the 80 mins Halifax created more opportunities but a combination of unfortunate referring decisions and poor decision making cost us dearly.

Beswick was clearly held back when Rob made the break. MC said after the game that the ref saw it but played advantage because he thought we were going to score. I don't understand that at all. As soon as Rob was tackled, he should have awarded us the penalty and that would have been 2 points and game over.

However, we should not have subsequently run the 5th tackle from our own half in the last 10 mins, and the possession that gave Leigh ultimately lead to the equalising try (via another poor referring decision when the tackle count was wiped).

However, Leigh executed two plays very well for the last two tries, and that is what decided the match. They took their opportunities, we didn't. Great final, and we can't win them all.

I think Barrie McDermott should also apologise to James Haley next time he is on air. Haley (who I think was our MOM) sent out a beauty of a pass for Rob to score, and Bazza attributed it to Jacob Fairbank.

Considering McDermott thought DAVE HALLEY was playing centre for Halifax, he does owe James an apology !