Re: James child yet again : Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:08 pm  

The Devil's Advocate wrote:

Yes he did, but it was a genuine attempt to challenge for the ball, but lets blame the ref ad infinitum.

I'm blaming the video ref for an appalling decision that ultimately has cost us the match. Yep...if you don't make the errors we made you don't have to worry about crap decisions. But when your luck is out a decision like that is a kick in the teeth. It was not incontrovertibly wrong on the pitch decision. It took several looks and was different depending on the angle. The rules were ignored

Re: James child yet again : Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:12 pm  

TheDreadnought wrote:

Wasn’t even mentioned until Phil Clarke brought it up at the end. Embarrassing

Indeed. The sky team are infuriating. And it's not just our games. I've lost count of the times I've been shouting at the garbage they're talking about an incident

Re: James child yet again : Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:14 pm  

Stop blaming refs and video refs because we lost.

Can we really expect to win a game with a completion rate of 55%

The effort was there, but like I said earlier, you can’t win games on effort alone

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Re: James child yet again : Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:18 pm  

Indeed. Lots of great effort and some skill today but we lost through errors. Nothing to do with ref.
Some 50-50s went against us but they were 50-50s.

Re: James child yet again : Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:19 pm  

Eastern Wildcat wrote:

Stop blaming refs and video refs because we lost.

Can we really expect to win a game with a completion rate of 55%

The effort was there, but like I said earlier, you can’t win games on effort alone

Bit of a moot point when the opposition also had a completion rate the same.

So to answer your question yes you can expect to win a game with 55% completion rate.

Re: James child yet again : Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:55 pm  

We really need to stop blaming officials for defeats losing 23 games out of 28 isnt down to refs

Re: James child yet again : Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:22 pm  

And I'll add
Video ref has also robbed Castleford. It's really not good enough that these video ref decisions are so often incorrect

Re: James child yet again : Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:31 pm  

charlie63wildcat wrote:

And I'll add
Video ref has also robbed Castleford. It's really not good enough that these video ref decisions are so often incorrect

Video ref made one iffy decision against Richardson but the referee spent the rest of the game hammering Wire as some sort of apology!

Re: James child yet again : Thu Sep 10, 2020 11:08 pm  

It pains me to say it but the decision for Swift’s try was taken out of his hands by the on field referee giving a try. I could not see if he grounded the ball but in all probability he did. What I would ask is how could he he even get into that position because we had enough cover. With regards the second try if the roles were reversed then I would have expected a try to be awarded.
We can go on blaming the referees, the pitch, bad luck and injuries but we lost to a weakened Hull team who have a cup match on Sunday.

Re: James child yet again : Thu Sep 10, 2020 11:41 pm  

And we can go on attacking our own team. Yes, we made errors. So did Hull. I'm not having it that you can keep excusing poor decisions that decide matches. That is my view and that's that. So many of you love blaming our coach and players but when officials f up it's hey ho