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Re: Catalans Away - Match Thread : Sun Feb 20, 2022 10:46 pm  

TimmySmith wrote:

Quite strange that an adult would need to find the definition but here you go??

excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous.

I guess anyone WP speaks to about the game can call him pedantic

Pedantic is the first line on my cv.

Re: Catalans Away - Match Thread : Sun Feb 20, 2022 11:06 pm  

As Rizzo the Rat says at the end of Muppet Xmas Carol... ‘I’m back’!

Laid up with Covid now! ... I did stay awake to watch the game ... and I was moved by the spirit, attitude, application and no little skill shown by the players against Catalan.

Really good ... the more I see of Brad Walker the more impressed I am with him... he was head and shoulders the best half on the pitch and is growing in confidence... he deserves an extended run in the halves!

Jai Whitbread really opened my eyes... the pack lifted when he entered the fray as they followed his lead... particularly Aydin and Shaw who both showed great promise.

Corey Hall looks every bit a SL player he was up against (in my opinion) one of the best centres around and had his measure.

And it’s the first time I have seen Jowitt impose himself on a game... let’s see if he can do that regularly

Now the controversial bit ... James Batchelor has stepped up another level this year... I know Pitts is very reliable and a great leader but for my money Batchelor should be our right edge forward (at the moment he’s probably the best edge forward on the books) if Pitts plays it should be somewhere else.

And there’s a little something about Harry Bowes to like at half back he looked strong, composed and confident... be interesting to see him with an extended run at dummy half

Re: Catalans Away - Match Thread : Sun Feb 20, 2022 11:16 pm  

Spookisback wrote:

As Rizzo the Rat says at the end of Muppet Xmas Carol... ‘I’m back’!

Laid up with Covid now! ... I did stay awake to watch the game ... and I was moved by the spirit, attitude, application and no little skill shown by the players against Catalan.

Really good ... the more I see of Brad Walker the more impressed I am with him... he was head and shoulders the best half on the pitch and is growing in confidence... he deserves an extended run in the halves!

Jai Whitbread really opened my eyes... the pack lifted when he entered the fray as they followed his lead... particularly Aydin and Shaw who both showed great promise.

Corey Hall looks every bit a SL player he was up against (in my opinion) one of the best centres around and had his measure.

And it’s the first time I have seen Jowitt impose himself on a game... let’s see if he can do that regularly

Now the controversial bit ... James Batchelor has stepped up another level this year... I know Pitts is very reliable and a great leader but for my money Batchelor should be our right edge forward (at the moment he’s probably the best edge forward on the books) if Pitts plays it should be somewhere else.

And there’s a little something about Harry Bowes to like at half back he looked strong, composed and confident... be interesting to see him with an extended run at dummy half

Re: Catalans Away - Match Thread : Sun Feb 20, 2022 11:43 pm  

Spookisback wrote:

As Rizzo the Rat says at the end of Muppet Xmas Carol... ‘I’m back’!

Laid up with Covid now! ... I did stay awake to watch the game ... and I was moved by the spirit, attitude, application and no little skill shown by the players against Catalan.

Really good ... the more I see of Brad Walker the more impressed I am with him... he was head and shoulders the best half on the pitch and is growing in confidence... he deserves an extended run in the halves!

Jai Whitbread really opened my eyes... the pack lifted when he entered the fray as they followed his lead... particularly Aydin and Shaw who both showed great promise.

Corey Hall looks every bit a SL player he was up against (in my opinion) one of the best centres around and had his measure.

And it’s the first time I have seen Jowitt impose himself on a game... let’s see if he can do that regularly

Now the controversial bit ... James Batchelor has stepped up another level this year... I know Pitts is very reliable and a great leader but for my money Batchelor should be our right edge forward (at the moment he’s probably the best edge forward on the books) if Pitts plays it should be somewhere else.

And there’s a little something about Harry Bowes to like at half back he looked strong, composed and confident... be interesting to see him with an extended run at dummy half

Totally agree about Batchelor. He is showing some great form and I can’t believe he’s still only 23! If we don’t try tie him down for a few years it would be silly. He is ready to make that right SR spot his own if not this season then most definitely next season.

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Re: Catalans Away - Match Thread : Mon Feb 21, 2022 12:23 pm  

Trojan Horse wrote:

Totally agree about Batchelor. He is showing some great form and I can’t believe he’s still only 23! If we don’t try tie him down for a few years it would be silly. He is ready to make that right SR spot his own if not this season then most definitely next season.

I agree about Batch but I still like Pitts.

Re: Catalans Away - Match Thread : Mon Feb 21, 2022 12:50 pm  

It is surprising that after NRL ditched the two referee experiment, Messrs Tomkins and Pearce were allowed to reintroduce it for our match with Catalans when they played puppeteers to the marionette in green. Tom Moore will be squirming in embarrassment when he sees a rerun of his performance on Saturday and should have several weeks to reflect upon it whilst conducting matches in League 1.

As ever, it wasn't the decisions he gave , though several would have bordered on bizarre if he had been solely responsible, but the total lack of even handedness and downright disrespect for the Wakefield players. We should have no problem if players are pinged for an incorrect play the ball, but if the ref is to call one, he calls them all and should be so certain that when we have the benefit of a replay, the viewers and commentators can spot an infringement. Certainly not the case on Saturday and concerningly, all in one direction.

Similarly, ball strip and lost possession, defenders obstructing at a high kick and players taken out off the ball are two sides of the same coin that always came up heads for Catalans. Defending on the line is a minefield of arbitrariness and that's before the number of genuine tackles that became six again whilst the second and even third man flop seems to be ok again.

This season is rugby league's big chance to showcase the game in its best light and we get this kind of nonsense destroying the fabric of the game. Nobody can have the slightest qualm about heavy penalties for foul play but the level of pedantic wrong calls is something that the game cannot survive.

Re: Catalans Away - Match Thread : Mon Feb 21, 2022 2:04 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I agree about Batch but I still like Pitts.

Both would play for me, pitts in second row and with how well hes been going in middles v fev and hull i would have batch at 13

Re: Catalans Away - Match Thread : Mon Feb 21, 2022 4:25 pm  

TimmySmith wrote:

Cambridge Dictionary definition by the way: a basic mistake, like one that a person with no experience of an activity would make.

Is anyone saying Battye (specifically for the sake of the topic) doesn’t have experience? No, absolutely not but in that moment of the game, it seemed that way.

So it was just an error then, not a schoolboy one. So the term 'schoolboy error' does not apply here, because if it did every error would be a 'schoolboy error' rendering the term even more useless than it already is.

An unforced error would be the correct term if you really must pursue this.

Re: Catalans Away - Match Thread : Mon Feb 21, 2022 4:53 pm  

vastman wrote:

So it was just an error then, not a schoolboy one. So the term 'schoolboy error' does not apply here, because if it did every error would be a 'schoolboy error' rendering the term even more useless than it already is.

An unforced error would be the correct term if you really must pursue this.

Ask him what's the difference between an ordinary mile and a country mile, also why should there be a shadow every time somebody has a doubt

Re: Catalans Away - Match Thread : Mon Feb 21, 2022 5:51 pm  

Tom J received a caution

Case
ON/258/22
Tom Johnstone Wakefield, 2
Catalans v Wakefield
Super League, 19th February 2022 MRP
Late hit on passer at 1:27:15 Caution
Law 15.1(i)