: Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:21 pm  

With our poor form are there any good juniors/reserves we can throw in? Youthful enthusiasm and a healthy naivety can really add something to a team. How good were those two wire props that came in v saints (yeah i know they lost but still...)? We just shuffle round the same players when we've got injuries (with the exception of gayle) and it aint working.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:26 pm  

wire-quin wrote:

Rubbish-he should have scored when he broke through

Gale puts hospital balls onto players all the time and continually plays the inside scissor ball- have a look how may mistakes we make of his passes.

Look at Wakeys first try from 90 yards a week or so ago-That was off a Gale pass.

Completely agree. Been very disappointing in recent weeks. I've still not been able to bring myself to comment on the match but as I have said before, we are really going backwards and are a very poor side indeed. Clueless.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:36 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

Completely agree. Been very disappointing in recent weeks. I've still not been able to bring myself to comment on the match but as I have said before, we are really going backwards and are a very poor side indeed. Clueless.

Dont be such a drama queen we've got a thin squad and we're having a poor run with injuries, but Wakey was 2 points, Wigan played really well and we had a man sent off and Leeds and Hudds are top 3 teams and look like it. We are not a very poor side. Far from it.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:37 pm  

Alibert was dreadful but he didn't cost us the game, it would have helped if he had touch judges who knew the rules. Huddesfield lay on far too long and to me have turned a sharp team into a team that is boring to watch but they won. We were poor, no imagination, no effort, no interest. Very poor. But we will either travel to Perpignan or switch on SKY and put ourselves through it all again, its called being a fan and we take the highs with the lows but at the moment there seems to be more lows. BUT we will be happy when we beat Saints

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:52 pm  

it would have helped if he had touch judges who knew the rules

All TJ know the rules, what you may not have noticed is that the dont have whistles. They can only raise there flags if the ball goes out or there is foul play. Other than that they are pretty much limited to talking to the ref through the intercom. If the ref doesn't want to listen then there is nothing else they can do.

Good coaches play to the weaknesses of the refs. Hudds did that very well. We all know Alibert lets the game go so Hudds played on that. More the fool us for no taking advantage of his style.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 8:42 pm  

so if they know the rules why didn't he signal for the grapple tackle which was committed in front of us and why did he not signal for a couple of forward passes.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:48 pm  

Tre Cool wrote:

Dont be such a drama queen we've got a thin squad and we're having a poor run with injuries, but Wakey was 2 points, Wigan played really well and we had a man sent off and Leeds and Hudds are top 3 teams and look like it. We are not a very poor side. Far from it.

We will see. I can't see us picking up many more points this season, Bradford excepted. I spotted someone pointing out we need a Scott Hill type player. Say no more.

Other teams have got into gear. We started off in our top gear and are going backwards. Huddersfield played nothing like they did in the two previous meetings - they were in second or third gear and we were pathetic.

: Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:41 am  

M Alibert was poor. But he was consistently poor.

Yes, we were offside for a good portion of the game - but so were you.

Yes, we did appear to lie on in the tackle more than usual sometimes - but so did you.

Yes, he did let a couple of our forward passes go - but he did the same with yours.

He was quite even-handed in his ability to referee the match 'properly'.

: Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:49 am  

ivor

exactly
we cannot blame the ref for the result
he was consistent with his decisions
if you looked at his positioning he stood a big 10 mtrs so judging where the defensive line in respect to 10 mtrs was obvioulsy being looked at closer by the TJ
As for layign on, yep it was slow, but its down to players to latch on to that and play it the way the ref is going to call it

As for TJ
they can only advise the ref
its hime with the whistle and does not have to listen to the TJ if he thinks he saw it different

: Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:11 am  

The Giants played the ref better than we did.