Agree totally. If it was obstruction then blow the whistle as soon as he sees it He had a great view. !
No - he waited until Lomax was just crossing the line until he blew whistle and claimed obstruction
He did a similar thing in first half where he blew whistle a few seconds after the alleged offence
If the ref is so sure of the call then make the call as soon as he sees it - not after a few seconds
Or - now here’s an idea ..........go to the VR if he’s not sure !
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I took two Everton season ticket holders last night. It was the first RL game for both, "husband and wife" their thoughts included how superb to see the kids involved and the dancers and what a tough game rugby league is.
i really enjoyed the game, Cas wanted it and needed it and we toughed it out. 4-0 like how it used to be in the late sixties in the mudfests.
we can also do short kicks that fall between the back three and defence line like Fax did against us.We need some variety and above all composure.
Learned comment from The Don
Our kicking game was dreadful last night, Roby’s kicks are poor, and the first decent kick we did came on around 65mins when Richardson did a high one and it bounced between two Cas players. Ashworth was really struggling to keep up with play. Our play the balls were shocking as well, players are in such a rush to play it they end up losing the ball, or they try and milk a penalty (like walmsley tried to do) and he ended up dropping the ball. I wish Ganson would sort out the PTB’s.
Agree re the kicking. There is no quality in the short kicking game. It’s either a rushed grubber straight to their man or the kick to the corner which comes off a handful of times a season at best
Our defence was absolutely superb. Grand final winning defense that. The errors however were poor and need to be sorted if we want to win it this year
Somebody will probably shoot me down in flames for this but I did wonder whether they’d been primed to play a defensive game to prepare for the semifinal and Grand Final? Was the game treated as a glorified training exercise?
Castleford had overlaps where the wingers looked certain to score and yet our defence moved across so quickly that they were left floundering with absolutely nowhere to go. Castleford also started well, playing patiently but started making their own errors as they got desperate to break our defence down.
I should imagine the team just wanted to get through the game, get the 2 pts, re energise and move onto to next week. Both teams made plenty of errors Saints all season have defended well to cover their mistakes, Cas are not the same standard when it happens to them. For me Holbrook wouldn't have had a defensive plan in place........we missed 51 tackles one of the highest negative stats in a game all this season.
Friday night Castleford played without a "bobby" for the full game , allowing an extra man in the thier line defence , Brough would have had a field day against this , unfortunately not many other teams have the luxury of the guy with the best kicking game not just in the British game with the NFL included.
roy litherland it's happened i told you it would
Defensively solid on friday. Particularly after CC.
However Cas are very limited in attack.
No Pace or threat. (gale,shenton,eden etc)
Other than the CCF blip, defence has been excellent all season.
Attack has been either sublime or very ordinary and not much in between.
Saints also not had many intense tight games.
GFs are about taking 2-3 chances in 80 mins.
Attack needs to be better. Not Harelm Globetrotters better but clinical.
Won't be easy.
I'd see it like this...
If a team scores 16 or more points against us in a play off game, we have got a major problem.
Our defence is pretty good, our effort is tremendous, particularly the back line on exit sets.
What we are not doing is building a platform with the forwards & creating pressure situations by forcing repeat sets or at least using a good short kicking game to make the opposition defence panic/scramble.
If we don't sort this out quickly, we will not make the final. Winning the final is another task entirely. As it stands, my gut feeling is that we will be losing finalists.
We are not as good as we have been made out. But that is through no lack of effort. The crunch games are played on percentages and pushing the rules to slow us down at the ruck.
We have been found out & it's going to take a special, thought out plan to counteract it