: Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:26 pm  

Gary High wrote:

Are you being serious ?
The only try I struggled to understand was Ballards. I am unsure on the ruling for using your chest but why isn't it deemed a knock on when a player uses his chest to control the ball from a Kick Off ? I honestly think Hewer didn't know what to rule as there isn't a ruling that states you cannot use your chest to control the ball - Ballard was onside when the ball hit the players chest so rightly chased it and plonked it down. That is the only explanantion I can come up with for why it was given

Comical as in the way they were scored ie Flynns help, Knock on then a try and as soon as Rooney got the ball with 45 secs left you just knew he would sail through and score because we looked brused and battered.

IMO it was a mental battle last night and they out powered us due to the last week or 2 we have had giving our great friends in super dooper league players back .
We defo missed Duffy and Morrison but all credit to the team on show they gave 100 %

: Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:30 pm  

Can't ask for more. The score was not indicative of the two teams performances. I was flabberghasted by the referee at times. I think at certain crucial times he punished us, it really could have gone either way.

I mean punishing the play the ball! If you do that once, you better be sure you watch ever single ptb from then on right? Well he didn't because Barrow failed to get to their feet on a number of occasions.

Really annoyed. Not as annoyed as last night. I've calmed enough to admit Barrow deserved to win. We were missing a lot of players so it's fair enough.

: Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:53 pm  

Leahy is always erratic. Why didn't he refer Dodds 'try' to the video ref ??

Regarding the penalties for ptb, Widnes were warned after 2 dodgy ptb's on the bounce. The next play the ball wasn't touched bhy the foot so a penalty was given.

I though Widnes played pretty well considering the players not available, but I thought our pack was always on top and that Widnes would run out of steam up front. That's pretty much what happened after 60 minutes or so.

I have a strange feeling we will play you again this season.