Match Thoughts - Murrayfield Magic : Sat May 02, 2009 3:51 pm  

What an incredibly sloppy, indisciplined display. A win we scarcely deserved.

I thought Melling at full back was good, but the two wingers had shockers. Mat Gardner in particular was awful. Coughed up the ball whenever he had it, ran sideways on more than one occasion and generally looked out of his depth. Is Jon Wells injured? How he is kept out of the side by this clown I will never know. Will Sharp seems low on confidence.

Dorn got better as the game went on but Orr blatantly is not fit. Purdham the only other player on the park to emerge with any credit. I had assumed the team would be high on confidence after beating the reigning champions the week before, though clearly I should know better than to apply logic to Harlequins RL.

I feel a bit sorry for Salford, they didn't play badly and yet still came away with nothing. We played predictable, one-man rugby for at least 3/4 of the match and at points we were feeble. A better team than Salford would have taken us to the cleaners.

Still, a win is a win, eh?

: Sat May 02, 2009 3:55 pm  

Scarcely deserved ? Sorry but i disagree with you there we deserved the win more

: Sat May 02, 2009 4:10 pm  

Salford have always been a problematic side for us.

After we hammered them up at the Willows there was always going to be a response.

To get the win and move up to 4th is good enough at this stage in the season.

: Sat May 02, 2009 5:23 pm  

Disagree with your comments on Mat Gardner, i thought he had an ok game, the ball was stolen of him twice by Mark Henry, but was ajudged to be knocked on, Clubb had a good game, and was a very good try imo. The build up to Dorn's try was obviously a knock on, but the ref' hadn't given us much in the game anyway, so we deserved it . Howell had another good game imo aswell

: Sat May 02, 2009 5:25 pm  

Red-4-life wrote:

Scarcely deserved ? Sorry but i disagree with you there we deserved the win more

Which is what he said.

: Sat May 02, 2009 5:37 pm  

Homer wrote:

Which is what he said.

Thought it would mean that we only just deserved it?

: Sat May 02, 2009 5:40 pm  

Didn't have to be very good to win, which was just as well. The error count was about 12-3, and Danny Orr only emerged to kick badly.

Reckon about 150-200 in our section in the West Stand. About 20 Cats fans came and at in front of us, but it didn't kick off.

: Sat May 02, 2009 5:47 pm  

Mr Sheen wrote:

Didn't have to be very good to win, which was just as well. The error count was about 12-3, and Danny Orr only emerged to kick badly.

Reckon about 150-200 in our section in the West Stand. About 20 Cats fans came and at in front of us, but it didn't kick off.

Thank god,

: Mon May 04, 2009 8:31 am  

tim791 wrote:

Disagree with your comments on Mat Gardner, i thought he had an ok game

IMO he shouldn't be our starting winger. He's just not good enough.

: Mon May 04, 2009 9:34 am  

Thought it was a competent, workmanlike performance, even when Salford were ahead I didn't think we'd lose. Obligatory whinge from McRae at the end - the correct decision would have been a penalty to us for interference at the play-the-ball with a possible yellow card for a Salford player.