Embarrasing : Sun May 23, 2010 7:43 pm  

Nathan Brown wrote: That was rock bottom for me. We can't kick off properly, we can't even catch kick-offs when we score. It was just embarrassing. When you can't kick off and keep it in play and then you can't catch a kick-off we have lost the art of how to actually play the game. It's just basic parts of the game. Linkerrrrtee Link At least someone realises it's unacceptable!! We must do this everytime we're at home. Even the Hull players were out early to practice kicking and gauging the length of the field. This is something we used to do back in the days of Stuart Raper, I remember Wayne Bartrim even practicing kicking conversions, something which doesn't happen anymore either!! Get Stuart Raper back, he's become the Phil Clarke of the NRL!!!

Nathan Brown wrote: That was rock bottom for me. We can't kick off properly, we can't even catch kick-offs when we score. It was just embarrassing. When you can't kick off and keep it in play and then you can't catch a kick-off we have lost the art of how to actually play the game. It's just basic parts of the game. Linkerrrrtee Link At least someone realises it's unacceptable!! We must do this everytime we're at home. Even the Hull players were out early to practice kicking and gauging the length of the field. This is something we used to do back in the days of Stuart Raper, I remember Wayne Bartrim even practicing kicking conversions, something which doesn't happen anymore either!! Get Stuart Raper back, he's become the Phil Clarke of the NRL!!!

Re: Embarrasing : Sun May 23, 2010 9:10 pm  

I thought this thread was going to be about our home crowd today

Re: Embarrasing : Sun May 23, 2010 9:21 pm  

Castleford coach Terry Matterson:

"I thought the game as a spectacle was ruined by the man in the middle and it's not the first time the bloke's ruined it for us.

"I think they should give the fans their money back, not the club but the officials.

"He needs to go and have a look at the rule book, nobody do like that. He's got no feel for the game."

Not an happy man.

Re: Embarrasing : Sun May 23, 2010 9:54 pm  

WF4 wrote:

Not an happy man.

Thing is he's right for once.

Re: Embarrasing : Sun May 23, 2010 10:20 pm  

poppys mum wrote:

Thing is he's right for once.

Who was the ref today?

Re: Embarrasing : Sun May 23, 2010 10:27 pm  

chissitt wrote:

Who was the ref today?

Ben Thaler (Normy?)

Pointless stat but he's yellow carded Hull FC more than any other team...

Re: Embarrasing : Sun May 23, 2010 10:36 pm  

WF4 wrote:

Ben Thaler (Normy?)

Pointless stat but he's yellow carded Hull FC more than any other team...

Cheers, he's gone back a bit in my estimation this season.

Re: Embarrasing : Sun May 23, 2010 11:38 pm  

The guy ruined it for both teams. It wasn't even 50/50 calls he got wrong!

Re: Embarrasing : Mon May 24, 2010 7:54 am  

its beyond me how he can ref us in the first place, i know he is down as being from normanton but i could have sworn he was brought up in lock lane but i must be wrong. i think he is the worst of the SL refs i think he needs a spell in the lower divisions but unfortunatly this wont happen as we dont have any more refs coming through of even a half decent standard this was proven last week when Ian Smith had to ref 2 games in the weekend, what a sorry state our game is in

Re: Embarrasing : Mon May 24, 2010 8:07 am  

tigerman10 wrote:

its beyond me how he can ref us in the first place, i know he is down as being from normanton but i could have sworn he was brought up in lock lane but i must be wrong. i think he is the worst of the SL refs i think he needs a spell in the lower divisions but unfortunatly this wont happen as we dont have any more refs coming through of even a half decent standard this was proven last week when Ian Smith had to ref 2 games in the weekend, what a sorry state our game is in

Not sure about where he was brought up. But he definitely went to Freeston High School in Normanton. As did his brother who was on our books for a while