No sugar coating : Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:58 pm  

THAT... was rubbish..

Ok they slowed the game down every single chance.. They tried to slow every single play the ball down, they were offside 50% of the game....

We should have done better against that.. Penky would have had a field day against that if he didn't have a broken foot!!

Re: No sugar coating : Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:03 pm  

Ok we didnt play great, but we won the game, i'm glad that performance came this week, as it was enough to beat them in the end. i might have thought differently if we had of lost the game but this might not be a bad thing.

Noble and Calland wont have been happy with what they saw tonight and i think the players might have a rocket up them from the management team and we will hopefully come out and produce a better performance against Fev next week.

at least it came this week and not next week

Re: No sugar coating : Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:04 pm  

Calland got it spot on in his interview "we came with the wrong attitude".

A combination of us taking Hunslet too lightly and thinking it would be a bit of a stroll after last week and them coming to the home on the Champions, wanting to do us over on TV made for a very poor first half for us, not helped by being dragged into their spoiling tactics.

The referee didn't help though, he allowed Hunslet to constantly spoil but also just had a general shocker. White's knock on in the first minute was the most obvious you'll ever see, I thought Worrincy's pass to Nash on our line was forward as was the pass for their first try, how he didn't even go to the screen for their 6's try was unbelieveable. He was the worst ref I've seen this season, comfortably.

This could be a good thing having a poor performance tonight, will make us even less complacent for the massive game next week.

Re: No sugar coating : Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:22 pm  

Worst ref this year, agreed

Re: No sugar coating : Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:46 pm  

Haighy wrote:

Calland got it spot on in his interview "we came with the wrong attitude".

A combination of us taking Hunslet too lightly and thinking it would be a bit of a stroll after last week and them coming to the home on the Champions, wanting to do us over on TV made for a very poor first half for us, not helped by being dragged into their spoiling tactics.

The referee didn't help though, he allowed Hunslet to constantly spoil but also just had a general shocker. White's knock on in the first minute was the most obvious you'll ever see, I thought Worrincy's pass to Nash on our line was forward as was the pass for their first try, how he didn't even go to the screen for their 6's try was unbelieveable. He was the worst ref I've seen this season, comfortably.

This could be a good thing having a poor performance tonight, will make us even less complacent for the massive game next week

.

True that we MUST improve 100% on tonight, I am sure we will do a lot better and maybe Fev will be a bit too cocky??/
Hope so.

Re: No sugar coating : Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:54 pm  

I thought it was a great match in the end. First half was a bit dull but some real tough plays out there tonight. A Gritty, nuggety war of attrition. Hunslet really did pull out all the stops in defence. Their tackling was awesome. Two months ago we'd have lost that match. A reet proper game o' rugby leeeeeeeeague that was.

People slate The Championships for crap defence but tonight that was a great defensive effort and I think - a credit to this league. Vikingman commented on the Widnes board that it was the worst ever game he'd seen. I don't understand people sometimes. Damned if you put 60 on your opposition, damned if you're locked in a struggle. People need to start showing some respect to all the clubs in this league who do it tough, week in, week out for a pittance of a financial return. Everyone at these clubs deserve better.

I'm happy tonight - I witnessed a cracking game of my favourite sport.

Re: No sugar coating : Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:01 pm  

I went out to watch the game tonight and im glad i did i thought it was great entertainment.I must say unlucky hunslet though.

Re: No sugar coating : Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:12 pm  

littlerich wrote:

I thought it was a great match in the end. First half was a bit dull but some real tough plays out there tonight. A Gritty, nuggety war of attrition. Hunslet really did pull out all the stops in defence. Their tackling was awesome. Two months ago we'd have lost that match. A reet proper game o' rugby leeeeeeeeague that was.

People slate The Championships for crap defence but tonight that was a great defensive effort and I think - a credit to this league. Vikingman commented on the Widnes board that it was the worst ever game he'd seen. I don't understand people sometimes. Damned if you put 60 on your opposition, damned if you're locked in a struggle. People need to start showing some respect to all the clubs in this league who do it tough, week in, week out for a pittance of a financial return. Everyone at these clubs deserve better.

I'm happy tonight - I witnessed a cracking game of my favourite sport.

Agreed that Penky would have had a field day tonight but I'd bet we'd have lost last week with him.

Re: No sugar coating : Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:13 pm  

Very poor tonight from Fax, great to see a such a good try win the game but the rest was just awful. Referee was bad for both sides, and the less said about the March brothers the better, that stuff from the drop outs was pathetic coming from a player-coach.

If anything tonight showed how important Penkywicz is, teams constantly try to slow us down with spoiling tactics, Penky often stops that from happening with his play from dummy half. The sooner he's back the better. You can't argue with 3 wins on the bounce though, whatever fashion they come in, winning breeds confidence and hopefully Fax will get another next week.

Re: No sugar coating : Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:53 am  

Haighy wrote:

Calland got it spot on in his interview "we came with the wrong attitude".

We have heard that before. Isnt that part of his job as coach though to make sure the players turn up mentally prepared?