With the ref I think he was bad both ways so thats no excuse
We had it won and blew it the last 15 minutes
2 things for me chaged the flow of the game.
Our failure in attack to score more points from our dominance in possession was a big point as we dominated the teritorial match for 60 minutes
But especialy the nock on from Duffy under no presure at all - That gave batley such a boost and completly changed the game. Just one incident like that clicked a switch we missed tackles, gave penalties away after that to give the bulldogs victory
In general I was happy because it was an improvement from the Bulls game thats foresure in a meaning match aswell, We can take positives out of it and hopefully use them to get better still. And the fact that Batley are a decent team, we will play worse teams than that season, Id personaly rank them 4th behind Leigh, Fev and Fax.
On indicidual performances id say no way Barnet MOM, the last 15 mins showed our left side frailties in defence with tadulala. That needs fixing
On who I though was a our MOM, Id say Coleman if hed have had some more game time, I thought it was a master stroke playing him at 13 sadly when March was on for him the attack seemed to lose impitus.
On March, I still feel he doesnt cut it anymore, Bottom corner he had a 3 on 2 to score us what would have been the try to seal it to either get Parrata and Duffy in , A shocking pass came from him and Duffy did well just to retian possesion 20 yards back.
Obst, I though he was less effective than he was was against the Bulls, I agree his defence was top draw, But im not going to nock him, If feel John Kear had him pegged well as the bulldogs had him closed down effery time
Korkidas, i think he did OK, his repuation again was downfall, he had 3 guys round him in a flash everytime he got the ball, one thing I will critisise from that, is that his play the balls were slow, with the defence hitting him as they were if he had played the ball that bit quicker im sure the halves could have been able to pounce on a depleted defence. In defence he was solid
Danny Jones - Very poor for me, he simply was picking the wrong option time and time again while in defence he must have missed more tackles than anyone else
JD - Thats clasic JD for me the MOM he really does do well in that position, left to do hard graft, I dont know the actual stat, but he must have been our top tackler and he ran it in stongly like a second row should.
Parrata - Pick of the backs for me - He was a rock in defence, meaning practicaly duffy had no tackles to make, and when he did get the ball he was a handfull but sadly the service was not there.
Like I say its not all doom and gloom. It leaves room for plenty of optimism
