Jekyll and Hyde : Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:55 pm  

A game of two halves, or did we start playing when Saints had declared.

The 5 drives and a kick brought nowt so they decided to throw the ball around and improved beyond recognition. Once Orr was on, Dorn improved and so did the look of the side. A lot people headed for the bars after 30 mins (and who could blame them?) but we showed that with Purdo and Randall back we could still have a shout for the play-offs. Kicking to touch is still abysmal, couldn't we get the Union boys to show us how to do it? How good are Saints when you let them play? How blind was that ref, Gilmour was offside for most of the game. It may be hard to be a cowboy in Rochdale, how hard is it to be a League fan in London?

: Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:53 pm  

agree with all of that

very odd game

: Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:01 pm  

Saints put the game to bed in the first half and did what was needed to keep it safe in the second. If they'd kept going it could have been worse for Quins. Some pride saved, true, it will be interesting to see what comes out of the home and way games with the Bulls. The referee had nothing to do with the result, that's grasping at straws, the better team won at a canter.

: Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:25 pm  

It was crap

: Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:25 pm  

ref was not helped by his TJ neither of them were heading back to watch the fwd pass!
but same for both teams so not putting blame on him

Did think that saints would have tried to nill us! so not convinced it was a case of em putting the cue on the rack, more us working out where the holes were
The 2 40/20's killed us as did the silly penalties! how many tries scored as a direct result of penalties and that worked for both teams

: Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:32 pm  

Yes Micky I'm afraid they were sh*te

: Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:56 pm  

Our first half display was an embarrassment, especially as we only really had three first choice players missing: Purdham, Randall, Howell.

That referee was hopeless - he seemed to be looking for reasons to blow his whistle (at least when we infringed) but ignored high tackles and repeated offsides, and that skinny young touch judge (a.k.a. David Miliband) who we seem to get every other home game might as well not be there for all the use he is. How did he not see Meli put his foot into touch in the build up to the try early in the second half? (I'm sure he did see it and just chose to do nothing.) Watching from the back of the stand on the halfway line it was clear there were forward passes in several of their tries.

We were second best and would have lost anyway though. At least we made a fight of it in the second half - I've seen us lose by 50 or 60 in similar circumstances before.

Re: Jekyll and Hyde : Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:09 am  

poplar panther wrote:

A game of two halves, or did we start playing when Saints had declared.

The 5 drives and a kick brought nowt so they decided to throw the ball around and improved beyond recognition. Once Orr was on, Dorn improved and so did the look of the side. A lot people headed for the bars after 30 mins (and who could blame them?) but we showed that with Purdo and Randall back we could still have a shout for the play-offs. Kicking to touch is still abysmal, couldn't we get the Union boys to show us how to do it? How good are Saints when you let them play? How blind was that ref, Gilmour was offside for most of the game. It may be hard to be a cowboy in Rochdale, how hard is it to be a League fan in London?

Please tell me you're joking??? Do we have Wigan fans that support us?

Re: Jekyll and Hyde : Sun Jul 26, 2009 8:22 am  

Rooster Booster wrote:

Please tell me you're joking??? Do we have Wigan fans that support us?

We were actually very, very bad and have been for around 6 weeks. No intensity about anything they did.

: Sun Jul 26, 2009 8:25 am  

After the match BM said that Howell and Randall are back next week and looking at the remaining fixtures I'd agree with him that we'll make the play-offs.