Re: Batley this week : Sun Mar 13, 2016 7:09 pm  

I think the inability of one or two individuals to deal with the bomb cost us the game today. They scored two tries in the second half directly from mistakes from Mathers and Blythe, and I counted three occasions where they let the ball hit the deck from the bomb. James Clare on the other hand showed them how to deal with the bomb - he was excellent.

It's difficult not to be sore about that penalty at the end though. For one, I have no idea why it was given and I hope someone can clear that one up. Second, from where I was stood behind the posts, it looked wide. Not the reason we lost the point, but makes it harder to take.

Re: Batley this week : Sun Mar 13, 2016 7:41 pm  

I was really disappointed with some of the individual errors today (Blythe's knock on, Gaskell's kick out on the full, the myriad of forward passes & Addy knocking on on the last tackle with Gaskell back deep for the DG). Those issues gave Batley an opportunity to get back in the game and they took it very well. If the game went on another 5 minutes we could have been on the end of a defeat. The other issue was our game management. Very poor indeed.

Anyway, another great advert for Championship rugby. Batley look very well drilled and should be in the mix for a Middle 8's place if they carry on this form.

Re: Batley this week : Sun Mar 13, 2016 7:47 pm  

Green and Ferres won't say anything but I just can't imagine Jimmy being there next November. They must look at the performances and wonder if another coach could get more from them.

Re: Batley this week : Sun Mar 13, 2016 7:48 pm  

Agree entirely with those saying we shouldn't have been in position for barley to get draw. But I expected us to struggle in forwards with sidlow and kavanagh missing.
Taking OB off was a tactical mistake IMO, unless he was injured. This wasn't game to try and filter Thomas in.

Re: Batley this week : Sun Mar 13, 2016 8:16 pm  

[quote="zapperbull"]i can only go from the BCB coverage but it sounds like we were robed by the ref![/quote]

No you weren't. You were the best team for an hour, got into a position at 24 - 12 where you should have kicked on and won easily, but for some unaccountable reason took your foot off the gas.

When you threw the ball about, you looked great, but then decided to turn it into a forward battle, and got beat up! As several have said on here, poor game management lost you the game, not the ref!

Re: Batley this week : Sun Mar 13, 2016 8:20 pm  

If we don't Q for SL this year and Jim is still there next year you can kiss good bye to a load of fans

Re: Batley this week : Mon Mar 14, 2016 6:46 am  

Tbh you guys have nothing to worry about. By far the best team we have played this season. Even with the injuries in your pack I thought you won the collisions and played with more pace than us, just had an off day with a number of brain facts costing you an easy win. Great to see you all there. Thanks for turning up in such great numbers and good luck for the rest of the season.

Re: Batley this week : Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:46 am  

distantdog wrote:

No you weren't. You were the best team for an hour, got into a position at 24 - 12 where you should have kicked on and won easily, but for some unaccountable reason took your foot off the gas.

When you threw the ball about, you looked great, but then decided to turn it into a forward battle, and got beat up! As several have said on here, poor game management lost you the game, not the ref!

The ref made a few questionable calls throughout the game. Certainly in the first half Ainscough should have been sin binned for a professional foul on Gaskell and several of the "forward pass" calls were questionable.

But really, we should have put the game to bed at 24-12. We had opportunity to score several times but just seemed to desperate to off load rather than just take the ball forward

Re: Batley this week : Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:49 am  

Why are people talking about how they think we'll do in the Middle 8's based on a game in March against a team that's going all out from the off with the aim of picking up as many points as they can now.

If the game last week had been on yesterday's draw would have probably put us top and u beaten without getting going.

I'd say we're in good shape and personally I don't want them playing their best stuff when it doesn't matter.

Smell of wee?

Re: Batley this week : Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:50 am  

Also Batley have now beaten Leigh and drawn with Bradford. They'll take points off a lot more sides before the end of the season.

Although after being 24-12 up and giving away a penalty on the hooter it's a point dropped rather than a point gained.