Re: What do.... : Mon May 03, 2010 10:48 pm  

Couldn't agree more re the comment about Barry - he's worked wonders.

We really have to thank the banned Directors for being unable to invest in previous years but were still able to take us into administration (again).

Without them, where would we have been?

Still where we are BUT, AND IT IS A BIG 'BUT', level on points with Dewsbury - instead of 7 points adrift, but still far-better placed. That's what I call 'watching the purse-strings' when they told everyone that they would never go into debt again.

Pleased that neither of them will ever be able to be Directors of a RL Club again!

Come on Cougars - we can still do it!

Re: What do.... : Mon May 03, 2010 11:14 pm  

The damned referee again. Why dont the RFL just get rid of them if they cant see through players and do 5 things at once. I mean ones in SL with big screens cant get it right, so the ones we have should be their superhuman upgrades. Just get rid of them all, cant be that hard to do surely. Then we'll all...

... not have a game to watch.

I know quite a few of you on here personally and if I dont I respect your opinions be it about cougars, other rugby matters or anything else. But you must realise how laughable it is reading about the ref every week. If we tackled as we should, kicked as we should, caught as we should, passed as we should and played to the rules as we should, then we would have no reason to talk about the ref. I know this wont happen as everyone makes mistakes but you have to realise this includes the officials aswell.

Re: What do.... : Tue May 04, 2010 7:39 am  

jeronimo wrote:

I know this wont happen as everyone makes mistakes but you have to realise this includes the officials aswell.

Re: What do.... : Tue May 04, 2010 8:41 am  

jeronimo wrote:

If we tackled as we should, kicked as we should, caught as we should, passed as we should and played to the rules as we should, then we would have no reason to talk about the ref.

That's a good and partially valid point but not strictly true. What if we were within 4 points of a team with 1 minute to go and the ref missed a blatant trip/off the ball tackle in front of the posts that denied us a try? Many fans, me included would think that poor refereeing and I would not be very sympathetic to the "everyone makes mistakes" line.

At the time of a similar incident in the Barrow match we were 0 -12, the try would have put us 6-12 and given us momentum. Instead the ref penalised us, I assume for dissent, from which they scored making it 0-18. Momentum is now firmly back with them.

Having said that, Barrow were the better side anyway and deserved the victory.

I don't think the refs or the RFL have vendettas against teams, but it does make me wonder if they watch for certain infringements more. ie they expect us to slow the game down therefore they watch us more closely for those types of infrigement.

The ref did not loose us the game, but he did influence it. Would we have got a bonus point? Who knows, but I don't think so, Barrow bombed loads of chances.

Ah well..... onward and well erm, .....onward.

Re: What do.... : Tue May 04, 2010 11:40 am  

Harry-Al-Hill wrote:

that was just the platform for the officials to follow through on the instructions from above - 'Don't give Keighley an inch, they are going down, they will learn the hard way, we must set a precedent to the rest of the clubs that we will not stand for the kind of management that has been evident of Keighley recently and in the past' -

Sour Grapes??? - Think what you like!

Dont think its sour grapes at all.
I think its a load of rubbish.

Are you saying that all the match officials are in on it as well?

If that really was the case, then the tries they had ruled of for forward passes would have been given.
Rawlings would have been sent off, for that very late challenge late in the second half.

Re: What do.... : Tue May 04, 2010 12:20 pm  

I don't think you can blame the referee too much when you get beat by 30 points.

I'd understand if it was a last minute try from a pass that Joe Montana would have been proud of. Or Ronnie Laughton's second half performance in a play off game against Rochdale which was just plain bent.

Re: What do.... : Wed May 05, 2010 7:47 am  

Any news on that fella that collapsed in the bar after the match?

Re: What do.... : Wed May 05, 2010 8:17 am  

obeone wrote:

Any news on that fella that collapsed in the bar after the match?

Rach said he was up and about and supping pints that very night!