Re: Justice done : Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:05 am  

bewareshadows wrote:

There was an interesting decision last night.

It was something that went against us last week, but for us last night.

It's the reaching around the ruck, last week our player did it and everyone was shouting professional foul and this week Hull KR got pinging for it. Does this mean that the dummy half is immune from being tackled?

Until he moves or passes, basically yes.

Re: Justice done : Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:12 am  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

Until he moves or passes, basically yes.

That's an awful rule.

Re: Justice done : Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:16 am  

bewareshadows wrote:

That's an awful rule.

Don't disagree, it was one of my favourites whilst I was still playing! As far as I know, the rfl thought there was too much slapping at the wrists and it would clean up the rook

Don't worry, it'll be forgotten about by round 14 though

Re: Justice done : Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:20 am  

Great interview by KC after the game, very refreshing to hear a coach talk like that. Very gracious in defeat.

Saddened please watch it and take note

Re: Justice done : Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:51 am  

Brilliant stuff from Saddened. He should be a Salford fan then would understand the difference between Highs & Lows. We have 30 like him though on our Forum.

Anyway - I thought Saints tactics were all wrong. Cunningham must have bought Brian Nobles 2 page Coaching Manual - `Five Drives and a Kick` - Saints were very poor in attack but the last 5 minutes showed that when the ball goes wide there are actually spaces on a Rugby field. Long hasnt improved the set plays just yet has he?

Re: Justice done : Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:13 am  

There are some ungracious Saints fans on here. Your coach admitted we deserved to win and was most magnanimous in defeat. You should try taking a leaf out of his book. This was the opinion of the independent pundits as well and that the closeness of the score was not a true reflection of the game overall. You may have not have played as well as you expected to but this was partly down to the opposition, something you do not seem to be able to accept. Your so called "big forwards" were controlled for parts of the game by a much lighter pack as we were only able to field two props. You are the champions, you are top of the league its just a pity that you cannot respond appropriately as KC does.

Re: Justice done : Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:46 am  

Keiththered wrote:

There are some ungracious Saints fans on here. Your coach admitted we deserved to win and was most magnanimous in defeat. You should try taking a leaf out of his book. This was the opinion of the independent pundits as well and that the closeness of the score was not a true reflection of the game overall. You may have not have played as well as you expected to but this was partly down to the opposition, something you do not seem to be able to accept. Your so called "big forwards" were controlled for parts of the game by a much lighter pack as we were only able to field two props. You are the champions, you are top of the league its just a pity that you cannot respond appropriately as KC does.

Let me be first to do so then. Thought as usual you defended us perfectly giving the half backs no time to work and battling hard against our superior pack. Like you say gap should have been 10+ points. Think on paper you've got a top 8 squad just need to come together as a team. Hope you make top 8, be a better comp for HKR being in it!

Re: Justice done : Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:53 am  

Keiththered wrote:

There are some ungracious Saints fans on here. Your coach admitted we deserved to win and was most magnanimous in defeat. You should try taking a leaf out of his book. This was the opinion of the independent pundits as well and that the closeness of the score was not a true reflection of the game overall. You may have not have played as well as you expected to but this was partly down to the opposition, something you do not seem to be able to accept. Your so called "big forwards" were controlled for parts of the game by a much lighter pack as we were only able to field two props. You are the champions, you are top of the league its just a pity that you cannot respond appropriately as KC does.

Controlled so much that saints had 3 times the possession in your half than you did in ours?

You shut our links down well (or illegally in the case of Burns, but that's another story) and you played expansively which meant we couldn't compress our defence to make our forwards count further.

There were plenty of opportunities in both halves for Saints to be clear. Instead we gifted you 2 tries, and spurned opportunity after opportunity. You took your opportunities and deserved the win because of that. You didn't play well, we played worse. You can deserve a win and not play well.

If that's being ungracious so be it. I'm not going to lavish praise on a team that played poorly. I'm sorry. If we're going to talk about ungracious, how about the hkr fans booing injured saints players, and shouting to get on with the game whilst Roby had a head injury?

Re: Justice done : Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:53 am  

salfordsaint wrote:

Let me be first to do so then. Thought as usual you defended us perfectly giving the half backs no time to work and battling hard against our superior pack. Like you say gap should have been 10+ points. Think on paper you've got a top 8 squad just need to come together as a team. Hope you make top 8, be a better comp for HKR being in it!

Very gracious.

Re: Justice done : Sat Mar 28, 2015 12:48 pm  

Maybe the worst refereed game I have ever seen. Rovers should have played most of the game with twelve men while half of Saints points came from ridiculous forward passes. Both sets of fans deserve to feel aggrieved and both sets of players deserve better!