Re: RD 8 | Warrington Wolves v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Apr 07, 2017 9:37 pm  

Gotcha wrote:

Put Patton in that team and we win comfortably..

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Re: RD 8 | Warrington Wolves v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Apr 07, 2017 9:40 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

For me the biggest issue, as is most games is that the ruck is reffed differently depending who is the home team. We really need to sort out the incompetence/bias of the referees.

That's a fair point & valud SL wide.
Saying that though we have to be smarter we know what to expect from Child its not abnormal anymore & we have enough experience to be much better than we showed.
A better long kicking game/kicking early etc would have imo helped us.

Re: RD 8 | Warrington Wolves v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Apr 07, 2017 9:44 pm  

RHINO-MARK wrote:

That's a fair point & valud SL wide.
Saying that though we have to be smarter we know what to expect from Child its not abnormal anymore & we have enough experience to be much better than we showed.
A better long kicking game/kicking early etc would have imo helped us.

It really wouldn't imo. It was like touching a hot potato tonight touching a Wire player tonight. You had to jump off as soon as possible otherwise a penalty, on the other side take as long as you want. Reason why he keeps get this fixture and why we always get hammered.

Re: RD 8 | Warrington Wolves v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Apr 07, 2017 9:46 pm  

True but Walters has probably played his last game for Leeds.
At the end some of our forwards were blowing out of their arris which considering the bench and losing Sutcliffe wasn't a shock.
How many games will Westwood get?

Re: RD 8 | Warrington Wolves v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Apr 07, 2017 9:49 pm  

I think last season we'd have lost that game by 40. We did well to get as close as we did given how quick Warrington were playing the ball, and how much possession they had. We lost by 4 trys to 3, one of which shouldn't have counted. So, it's not the end of the world.
You can complain about the halves, but most halves struggle when having to play most of the game in their own half.
The decision to start Burrow, and only have 1 prop on the bench backfired, but Warrington's tactic of hitting the floor as quick as possible is very tough to combat.

Child was his usual terrible self. No more needs to be said about him.

Re: RD 8 | Warrington Wolves v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Apr 07, 2017 10:06 pm  

Sneyd was sin binned tonight for interference at the play the ball despite a Salford player pushing him into the ruck! Its a bad area of the game and needs sorting

Re: RD 8 | Warrington Wolves v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Apr 07, 2017 10:07 pm  

Our ruck speed was slow and ponderous, briscoes positional play and all round ability is woeful. Any opposition coach watching tonight's match will be looking forward to targeting his wing all night.
I am usually quite neutral on referees but tonight's performance was an absolute disgrace. The penalty award against hall was a shocker. But my biggest complaint is not pressuring the Warrington kickers.
Our kickers got hammered all night with or without the ball , considering the amount of ball and field position Warrington had ,the score my well have been substantially more. It's certainly turning out to be a strange season going by tonight's results.

Re: RD 8 | Warrington Wolves v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Apr 07, 2017 10:12 pm  

The middle couldn't contain the quick play the ball. When it came to the 5th no-one was in position to pressure the kick, allowing the halves to pick their spot.

Much as it seems fashionable to have a go at Briscoe I'm not sure what he coukd have done about either kick, though he was at fault for their third try by shooting in and leaving lineham a walk in

Re: RD 8 | Warrington Wolves v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Apr 07, 2017 10:20 pm  

Just typical we get a version of the real wire at home when they have been nothing like what they were tonight against us when playing other teams recently.

Re: RD 8 | Warrington Wolves v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Apr 07, 2017 10:23 pm  

I agree with Gotcha regarding Patton, we could definitely use him, young got skills, shame he wasn't in Smiths dog house a bit longer and we could try to poach him.

I think Wire definitely deserved it, but would have been a way different result if Caveman Westwood would have been sent off. He's such a dirty player. I think Childs is crap and the worst ref, but Reckon most of the Rugby Refs in this country wouldn't have shown a red as they all seem spineless to me.

I've defended Briscoe for a while now but think something may need to change, playing poorly.

All in all we're still 4 wins from 5, which is better than I expected, would have been a much closer game without Child, Westwood Incident, Sutcliffe been available after the 1st minute and their second try. Plus Wire were always gonna get that win at some point. I'm looking forward to having Galloway back soon. Tonight also shows how Singletons stupid hit against Bird impacts our squad as we could have done with him on bench tonight (same with Ferres, but his didn't seem as intentional)

Also didn't expect Hull to get done over like that at home #RadfordOut