Re: GAME ON GROUP A : Australia v England - Fri - 10:00:00 : Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:57 am  

knockersbumpMKII wrote:

Their first try comes off a massive forward pass the tackle before and the second off a ridiculous penalty.
Sure we're poor kicking wise and frankly our tackling and ball retention is equally rubbish but ffs officials making it tough already

Our try came from a ridiculous forward pass too!

Re: GAME ON GROUP A : Australia v England - Fri - 10:00:00 : Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:58 am  

knockersbumpMKII wrote:

And again the ref misses the touch by an aussie hand for 6 more

How on earth is that missed at this level?

That said, those half time stats are damning. 13/17 sets completed and 33 missed tackles is just terrible.

3 of our senior players in SOL, Graham and Widdop have made awful errors at keys places on the field.

Re: GAME ON GROUP A : Australia v England - Fri - 10:00:00 : Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:59 am  

A defensive full back would help. Lomax is awful in defence. He stood and watched the first Australian try right in front of him. He offers a lot in attack but not enough to counterbalance.

Re: GAME ON GROUP A : Australia v England - Fri - 10:00:00 : Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:00 am  

Key difference is SL players are used to 2-3 secs extra at every PTB while they beg the ref for a penalty where AUS just want to get off the deck and play quick.

Re: GAME ON GROUP A : Australia v England - Fri - 10:00:00 : Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:04 am  

Dally wrote:

Our try came from a ridiculous forward pass too!

No it didn't, but if by your viewpoint it did the forward pass for the 1st aussie try was a gridiron style pass by comparison.
Ours was flat at the worst.

Re: GAME ON GROUP A : Australia v England - Fri - 10:00:00 : Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:04 am  

Seth wrote:

Key difference is SL players are used to 2-3 secs extra at every PTB while they beg the ref for a penalty where AUS just want to get off the deck and play quick.

The other thing is they are used to a rest every five minutes for a penalty. 1 penalty in a half is unheard of in Super League.

Re: GAME ON GROUP A : Australia v England - Fri - 10:00:00 : Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:05 am  

The single most important difference is the kicking game. Gale has kicked teams to death in SL all year. He needs to find a bit of that quickly. The Aussies need to be starting their sets in their own twenty, or this is only going one way.

Re: GAME ON GROUP A : Australia v England - Fri - 10:00:00 : Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:08 am  

Crying out for Sneyds kicking and game management

Re: GAME ON GROUP A : Australia v England - Fri - 10:00:00 : Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:10 am  

Seemed a soft penalty against O'Loughlin. It didn't look a great deal worse than many of the others.

Shame the ref missed that touch by the Aussie hand that would have given us another set of six in a good position.

Overall Australia are clearly better but we're hanging in there and defending really well most of the time.

Hopefully we can get a bit more possession in their half. We haven't had much apart from the try.

Re: GAME ON GROUP A : Australia v England - Fri - 10:00:00 : Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:10 am  

Wilde 3 wrote:

Crying out for Sneyds kicking and game management

He wouldn't be any better because our pack isn't getting them on the foot.