Bad day at the office today : Sun Mar 08, 2015 9:00 pm  

Blimey if anything could go wrong it did today, first up we get that ginger g*t Stokes as Ref yet again for a Fev match why???
Then Ben Kaye is out with a cut hand (he did it at work I believe).
Fev come with a boatload of DR players how many was it 5?
A dropped ball costs us their first try (good hands by Fev to be fair in the move from the set of 6 following).
Miles gets badly injured with what looks like a long term injury too!
Then a soft try and Fev are 10 nil up and the game looked up for us the way we were playing.
We did battle back and got a lucky try, we then got on top for a long spell but did not take our chances (some poor passes cost us)
Murrell gets sin binned (jury out on that one he did hit him a bit late).
The ginger one gives them a penalty for what even Fevs fans and players did not appeal for and they go and score what looked like the game breaker but again we battled our way back into it and scored and had them rocking only to suffer a try from a spawny ricochet and it really was game over only to have to suffer what felt like an eternity before the hooter was blown at 4.52pm!
There was a lack of atmosphere today from both sets of fans and a poor turn out as well from both teams only 2187.
For me both teams will struggle to get into the top 4 on this showing, we both could be also ran's we have a tough set of games coming up this was a game we needed to win.
So we lose to the flat cappers for the 7th time at home on the bounce, we must have really upset somebody upstairs (when we beat them in those Finals and semi finals) to have to suffer that statistic surely our turn will come, please???

Re: Bad day at the office today : Sun Mar 08, 2015 9:50 pm  

Fax4Life wrote:

Blimey if anything could go wrong it did today, first up we get that ginger g*t Stokes as Ref yet again for a Fev match why???
Then Ben Kaye is out with a cut hand (he did it at work I believe).
Fev come with a boatload of DR players how many was it 5?
A dropped ball costs us their first try (good hands by Fev to be fair in the move from the set of 6 following).
Miles gets badly injured with what looks like a long term injury too!
Then a soft try and Fev are 10 nil up and the game looked up for us the way we were playing.
We did battle back and got a lucky try, we then got on top for a long spell but did not take our chances (some poor passes cost us)
Murrell gets sin binned (jury out on that one he did hit him a bit late).
The ginger one gives them a penalty for what even Fevs fans and players did not appeal for and they go and score what looked like the game breaker but again we battled our way back into it and scored and had them rocking only to suffer a try from a spawny ricochet and it really was game over only to have to suffer what felt like an eternity before the hooter was blown at 4.52pm!
There was a lack of atmosphere today from both sets of fans and a poor turn out as well from both teams only 2187.
For me both teams will struggle to get into the top 4 on this showing, we both could be also ran's we have a tough set of games coming up this was a game we needed to win.
So we lose to the flat cappers for the 7th time at home on the bounce, we must have really upset somebody upstairs (when we beat them in those Finals and semi finals) to have to suffer that statistic surely our turn will come, please???

a penalty count bypass I believe......12-6 in your favour......not enough? we or the players don't need to appeal for the ref to give us a pen.....4 DR(jury out on that one too)......poor game from stokes(agreed).....sounds bad for miles, hope he makes a full recovery......lack of atmosphere(agreed)....on recent performances some fev fans had us down to get beat, and ya right both teams will need to step up a gear to secure a top 4 place.....a wins a win when its not pretty, esp away from home, but over the 80 we edged it I feel, you obvious didn't take advantage of the penaltys given

Re: Bad day at the office today : Sun Mar 08, 2015 10:45 pm  

Fax4Life wrote:

Blimey if anything could go wrong it did today, first up we get that ginger g*t Stokes as Ref yet again for a Fev match why???
Then Ben Kaye is out with a cut hand (he did it at work I believe).
Fev come with a boatload of DR players how many was it 5?
A dropped ball costs us their first try (good hands by Fev to be fair in the move from the set of 6 following).
Miles gets badly injured with what looks like a long term injury too!
Then a soft try and Fev are 10 nil up and the game looked up for us the way we were playing.
We did battle back and got a lucky try, we then got on top for a long spell but did not take our chances (some poor passes cost us)
Murrell gets sin binned (jury out on that one he did hit him a bit late).
The ginger one gives them a penalty for what even Fevs fans and players did not appeal for and they go and score what looked like the game breaker but again we battled our way back into it and scored and had them rocking only to suffer a try from a spawny ricochet and it really was game over only to have to suffer what felt like an eternity before the hooter was blown at 4.52pm!
There was a lack of atmosphere today from both sets of fans and a poor turn out as well from both teams only 2187.
For me both teams will struggle to get into the top 4 on this showing, we both could be also ran's we have a tough set of games coming up this was a game we needed to win.
So we lose to the flat cappers for the 7th time at home on the bounce, we must have really upset somebody upstairs (when we beat them in those Finals and semi finals) to have to suffer that statistic surely our turn will come, please???

lol, after our recent perfornaces i didnt have much confidence in us getting a result today. Then when we turned up and saw stokes who robs us blind every single game we have him I felt like going home.

He didn't disapoint, and the proof is in the penalty count. Constantly piggy backing you lot down the pitch or giving you an extra set of six on our line. he allowed you totarget Gareth Moore, hitting off ball and dropping on him late until he was forced off with a fecked shoulder

We had four DR, one of which was with us for most of last season on loan. 2 poor teams to be honest, we failed miserably to stop you from offloading

Re: Bad day at the office today : Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:12 am  

Poor game. Lacklustre crowd.
I'm not getting into stokes performance. We all know what he's like. Give him an opportunity to penalise and he will. Just keep your discipline.
An ugly win gets you 2 points. I'll take that over a beautiful loss any day of the week.
Leigh next week. I'm expecting a blathering.

Re: Bad day at the office today : Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:51 am  

Stokes was poor, is constantly poor, but doesn't favour either side. Fev"s repeated indiscipline at the play the ball should have resulted in a sin bin, so poor reffing again. I'm not going to blame him for the result though, we should have been better but losing Kaye and then Greenwood early on obviously disrupted our setup but we need to improve a lot going forward.

Re: Bad day at the office today : Mon Mar 09, 2015 9:06 am  

Its not the penalty count that bugs me with Stokes, but some of his decisions are baffling, and at key moments. Fevs 3rd try a classic example, he basically marched them over the line, no side can defend or counter that.
but..... the lads must be gutted, Fev were there for the taking and we were ultimately masters of our own downfall

Re: Bad day at the office today : Mon Mar 09, 2015 9:22 am  

spener wrote:

a penalty count bypass I believe......12-6 in your favour......not enough? we or the players don't need to appeal for the ref to give us a pen.....4 DR(jury out on that one too)......poor game from stokes(agreed).....sounds bad for miles, hope he makes a full recovery......lack of atmosphere(agreed)....on recent performances some fev fans had us down to get beat, and ya right both teams will need to step up a gear to secure a top 4 place.....a wins a win when its not pretty, esp away from home, but over the 80 we edged it I feel, you obvious didn't take advantage of the penaltys given

I am not saying Stokes cost us the game we lost it through not taking our chances the point with Stokes is yer from your viewpoint he gave us more penalties but from ours two crucial decisions he made cost us big time, the sin binning which maybe was correct but could have gone ether way but that penalty to give you six more tackles on our 20 from which you scored basically in the end won you the match as your last try was a fluke come on. He is a poor Ref and for a Fev v Fax game we should not have to suffer him virtually every time is my point.

Re: Bad day at the office today : Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:23 am  

Fev were there for the taking today; yes the ref didnt have a great game but we had enough possession to win the game. Got to be smarter with the ball - poor passes , knock ons and unforced errors cost us in the end - we were masters of our own downfall - it is only early in the season and Fax did show glimpses of what they can do - but you cant play like we did and expect to beat Fev...

Re: Bad day at the office today : Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:39 am  

Faxfan1999 wrote:

Fev were there for the taking today; yes the ref didnt have a great game but we had enough possession to win the game. Got to be smarter with the ball - poor passes , knock ons and unforced errors cost us in the end - we were masters of our own downfall and it cost us - it is only early in the season and Fax did show glimpses of what they can do - but you cant play like we did and expect to beat Fev...

sum's it up perfectly.Kaye must have been injured in warm up as he was on the teamsheet in SSB.Great burst by Fairbank-but how did we manage to blow the 5 man overlap ? Kicking game and smartnness poor again,even our first half try was from a poor kick on a dumb 2nd tackle option.

Re: Bad day at the office today : Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:52 am  

mr t hall wrote:

sum's it up perfectly.Kaye must have been injured in warm up as he was on the teamsheet in SSB.Great burst by Fairbank-but how did we manage to blow the 5 man overlap ? Kicking game and smartnness poor again,even our first half try was from a poor kick on a dumb 2nd tackle option.

agree, should have been a walk in try for one of them. they knew ball had to go that way but was so slow.