: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:53 pm  

redeverready wrote:

Sorry but professional sport is all about results...

No. It's actually not. If RL were all about results, I'd have stopped watching it decades ago. In the case of rugby league, you couldn't be more wrong. You'd be happy to watch a team win 20 on the trot 2-0?

redeverready wrote:

ours aren't good enough.

Wow, controversial, or what? What, are there people somewhere who would say our results "are" good enough?

Where do you get these gems from?

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:07 am  

I kind of disagree with the 'performance' argument and I very much disagree with the Barrie McDermottism of rugby league being a performance based sport. Whilst it is important to perform well on a consistent basis, in my opinion it is a whole lot more important to get the correct result. For myself, results matter far more than performances

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:39 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

No. It's actually not. If RL were all about results, I'd have stopped watching it decades ago. In the case of rugby league, you couldn't be more wrong. You'd be happy to watch a team win 20 on the trot 2-0?

Yes and I bet Peter Hood would be too.

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Wow, controversial, or what? What, are there people somewhere who would say our results "are" good enough?

Where do you get these gems from?

What are you on about.

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:36 am  

I feel sorry for the fans having to watch this lot every week. The only person that I don't feel sorry for is someone I know who has actually been quite awful to me just because I follow Leeds. - get a life would you? McNamara has to go now that is final. It appears that the team just don't have any spirit left in them now. A new coach whoever that would be needs to restore some spirit, pride in the club etc. Those heady days of SL champs seem a distant memory now. Getting rid of him now gives you a chance to turn the season around- wait and it will prolong the agony.

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:24 am  

invmatt wrote:

The game against Giants our conversion went over but it wasn't given. Class it as karma.

Er..hardly karma for us though?

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:03 am  

bigchris wrote:

What a waste, still can't believe we just lost that game.

We played well for 65 - 70 mins and then all the good work was undone.

The referee was a disgrace and a couple of stupid decisions including him not seeing Morrison being tackled without the ball completely handed castleford the momentum. They took their tries well but we looked the better side on the day and it should have been two points.

That was a big call that, that handed Cas posession in our half and they ultimately scored from it. Instead of a penalty to us, its six points to them. Shocker.

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:06 am  

Northern Lad wrote:

I agree I thought Platt was excellent today.

TBH i thought it was close all game playing wise, they targeted our left side at the end and didn't it work a treat for them. I was level with the line as the bulls attacked our end in the 2nd half and Halley was never put a foot on or outside the line when the linesman flagged...however

I think Cas played faster ball then we did and wanted to keep the pace up going, I felt we were rightly penalised on a couple of occasions for holding down trying to slow it down. I was surprised Deac's came back on and i guess the 2 point conversion misses cost us, I thought the last one was an easy one by his normal high standards.

If we'd have won that I'd have gone away happy as i thought Cas really did have a good game but losing from that position...to see it all fall apart in front of your eyes is horrendous.

He wasn't in touch. But was tackled anyway so ultimately it didn't matter.

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:10 am  

invmatt wrote:

The tackle was perfectly legal, Shenton never touched his head. Deacon just hit a brick wall

It is on report though isnt it? Will be interesting to see what they say....

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:16 am  

mikeshort wrote:

I feel sorry for the fans having to watch this lot every week. The only person that I don't feel sorry for is someone I know who has actually been quite awful to me just because I follow Leeds. - get a life would you? McNamara has to go now that is final. It appears that the team just don't have any spirit left in them now. A new coach whoever that would be needs to restore some spirit, pride in the club etc. Those heady days of SL champs seem a distant memory now. Getting rid of him now gives you a chance to turn the season around- wait and it will prolong the agony.

You are talking complete utter and complete bollox.

There was huge pride and spirit on show yesterday.

What was missing was some composure near the end.

That has sod all to do with the coach and everything to do with the players on the park.

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:14 am  

Adeybull wrote:

You are talking complete utter and complete bollox.

There was huge pride and spirit on show yesterday.

What was missing was some composure near the end.

That has sod all to do with the coach and everything to do with the players on the park.

I agree with you Adeybull ... although unfortunately while I disagree with the points over performance argument from a personal point of view ... the coach's job security IS surely related to results and the Bulls performances may be OK but ultimately not getting the right result (week in week out!) has to have consequences