Re: Far far too NEGATIVE : Mon Mar 11, 2019 12:01 am  

We always slip-up when we believe our own publicity. We are a much better side when we're the underdog with something to prove. I've lost count of the two-steps forward, one-step back over the years.

But I'd rather be a Wakey fan than a Wigan or a Leeds fan right now.

Re: Far far too NEGATIVE : Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:21 am  

PopTart wrote:

I think we lost on tactics and adaptability today.
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We lose on tactics every game. When we win it's in spite of the tactics and due to off the cuff bits of individuality.

[PopTart]

Re: Far far too NEGATIVE : Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:29 am  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

We lose on tactics every game. When we win it's in spite of the tactics and due to off the cuff bits of individuality.

I don't agree. Our tactics allow our backs to play like they do. It's not off the cuff.

Re: Far far too NEGATIVE : Mon Mar 11, 2019 10:11 am  

We lost, could and should of won as frustrating as it is move on to the next game and support the lads.

Up the Trin

Re: Far far too NEGATIVE : Mon Mar 11, 2019 10:15 am  

I can't just shrug that one off - it was bloody awful! Wherever a decision was to be made, we unerringly made the wrong one - and the inability to change tactics in the 2nd half when the weather fined up a bit was just baffling. It was almost as if someone had made a decision to freeze Johnstone out of the game on purpose - he was nothing more than a skinny prop for 90% of that game, which is just criminal.

Negative, amateurish and after a complete performance at Leeds last week, inexplicable.

Re: Far far too NEGATIVE : Mon Mar 11, 2019 10:26 am  

bren2k wrote:

I can't just shrug that one off - it was bloody awful! Wherever a decision was to be made, we unerringly made the wrong one - and the inability to change tactics in the 2nd half when the weather fined up a bit was just baffling. It was almost as if someone had made a decision to freeze Johnstone out of the game on purpose - he was nothing more than a skinny prop for 90% of that game, which is just criminal.

Negative, amateurish and after a complete performance at Leeds last week, inexplicable.

I agree with everything you say it’s frustrating but what’s done is done hope they learn from it, the decision making was terrible.

Up the Trin

Re: Far far too NEGATIVE : Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:11 am  

The Avenger wrote:

Not being negative Charlie, just being realistic about assessing the first 5 games. Undeniably we’ve beaten two very poor misfiring teams and lost two games we all think we should have won while we would also have fancied ourselves at home to Sts.

Against Sts and HKR we’ve looked absolutely clueless when attacking the line.

Agreed
How many repeat sets did we manage 2 ?
And as for "creating" anything, the less said the better, we were bloody awful.

Defensively we went well but with ball in hand it was as bad as it gets.

Re: Far far too NEGATIVE : Mon Mar 11, 2019 12:10 pm  

Just wondering why Chris Chester has looked time and again at the grounding for Johnstone's try frame by frame and says nothing was wrong.

Had it been a TV game and a video ref they wouldn't have got as far as the grounding. Johnstone's effort was disallowed for putting a foot on the touchline before launching himself and the touch judges flag immediately went up.

Re: Far far too NEGATIVE : Mon Mar 11, 2019 12:22 pm  

His Bobness wrote:

Just wondering why Chris Chester has looked time and again at the grounding for Johnstone's try frame by frame and says nothing was wrong.

Had it been a TV game and a video ref they wouldn't have got as far as the grounding. Johnstone's effort was disallowed for putting a foot on the touchline before launching himself and the touch judges flag immediately went up.

Result/performance aside for a second, Johnstone`s try was a perfectly good try, again 3 officials all within 1 to 2 metres of the ball on the ground, each with different angles and they cannot get it right? Picked up on it with the Catalans game finish, was given up as a no try so if there was no screen it would have been just disallowed straight away. Great piece of skill discounted all because of incompetent refereeing, also strange how not one of them spotted the clear knock on in the build up to the KR try?

Don`t think we deserved to win that game, thought we were poor and they looked the team more likely to score the whole game, but if the officials had got those calls right we probably would have come away with the 2 points.

Re: Far far too NEGATIVE : Mon Mar 11, 2019 12:35 pm  

homme vaste wrote:

Result/performance aside for a second, Johnstone`s try was a perfectly good try, again 3 officials all within 1 to 2 metres of the ball on the ground, each with different angles and they cannot get it right? Picked up on it with the Catalans game finish, was given up as a no try so if there was no screen it would have been just disallowed straight away. Great piece of skill discounted all because of incompetent refereeing, also strange how not one of them spotted the clear knock on in the build up to the KR try?

Don`t think we deserved to win that game, thought we were poor and they looked the team more likely to score the whole game, but if the officials had got those calls right we probably would have come away with the 2 points.

What had the ball on the ground have to do with it if his foot had previously been in touch?