Re: Workington game. : Sun Feb 28, 2016 6:33 pm  

Why bizarre drop goal decision? 4 points behind, end of the set, what are choices? Turnover ball lose possession, ball in touch scrum lose possession, get the ball in goal 50/50 lose possession or goal line drop out. If no other scoring opportunity on then take 1 point get the ball back and if you can get near line yr 4 points then wins it.
Sounds like a tense one, not quite up to expectations but another 2 points in the bag.
Next week should be interesting

Re: Workington game. : Sun Feb 28, 2016 7:53 pm  

Good 2 points. We were losing games like this last year. Grind out the away wins. Not doing so cost us our place in the 8s last season.

Re: Workington game. : Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:59 pm  

Might be a view that we should have strolled this one, I thought we maybe should have done but as you say last year we were losing these games. If we go through the season winning games like this by 1 2 or 3 points I don't care as long as we win them.
The fax batley game looked like a cracker, the boys are going to have to work hard for the result next week.

Re: Workington game. : Sun Feb 28, 2016 10:05 pm  

Interesting write up on the club site, too many penalties by the sound of it from hendo himself. It us something they need to get a grip of, giving away free mtrs will not win games against the better teams.

Re: Workington game. : Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:15 am  

A good win under difficult circumstances. It is a hard place to go and we had to grind out a result which we did.
A dogged team, Workington are a bit of a one trick pony. All their points and creative play came from Jarrod Sammut, their best player by far, They offered little going forward, but the penalties against us, gave them so many metres and put us under unnecessary pressure. Their two tries, one Alex Walker had his pocket picked five metres out and the other, we kicked on the fifth tackle, the ball hit Sammut, he collected it and ran in to score.
We bombed one easy try by dropping the ball and our kicking game was not all that good. We could easily have paid the price because the last five minutes were rather frantic, with both teams having a real go and either could have scored.
However a good two points,
There did not appear to be any injuries to cause concern either. On to next week.

Re: Workington game. : Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:46 am  

Bostwick wrote:

A good win under difficult circumstances. It is a hard place to go and we had to grind out a result which we did.
A dogged team, Workington are a bit of a one trick pony. All their points and creative play came from Jarrod Sammut, their best player by far, They offered little going forward, but the penalties against us, gave them so many metres and put us under unnecessary pressure. Their two tries, one Alex Walker had his pocket picked five metres out and the other, we kicked on the fifth tackle, the ball hit Sammut, he collected it and ran in to score.
We bombed one easy try by dropping the ball and our kicking game was not all that good. We could easily have paid the price because the last five minutes were rather frantic, with both teams having a real go and either could have scored.
However a good two points,
There did not appear to be any injuries to cause concern either. On to next week.

Can you apply to be the official match reporter & twitter controller for the club??

Re: Workington game. : Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:48 am  

Bostwick, assuming you were at the game, what were the penalties generally for? Are they not getting back onside or is it trying to slow the ptb down?

Re: Workington game. : Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:54 am  

The club advertised for that post not so long back.

Re: Workington game. : Mon Feb 29, 2016 10:32 am  

They were the usual reasons for us giving away penalties, interference at the play of the ball, laying on, we were given offside a few times too.
They were no better than us, particularly in slowing the game down. However the crowd were having a go at the referee all through the game which may have had some influence. I actually thought that he was not too bad.
We just have to be smarter because being dumb might prove to be our undoing.

[brian2]

Re: Workington game. : Mon Feb 29, 2016 10:48 am  

An important, possibly vital, win. the good thing is these are the type of games we would never win in the last 4/5 seasons. Winning "ugly" in difficult conditions, away from home has never been our forte - so i am happy.

I hope its dry next week, will be tough but we can win and really begin to build. two home wins will put us in a good place!!