Barrow Raiders V Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Tue Aug 09, 2011 12:03 pm  

Final away game of the regular season, who is making the trek up? Have a feeling it may be another close game.

Re: Barrow Raiders V Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:24 pm  

I'll be there, hopefully it will be more like the trip there in the playoffs last season than the one in the league. Be interesting to hear what sort of reception Hendo gets after his comments in this week's rugby league express

After the last two performances and a long injury list, I can see it being a really tough game. However I will be positive.

Barrow 22-23 Eagles.

Re: Barrow Raiders V Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:06 am  

Hopfully the walking wounded and youngsters will stand up and be counted,If they dont we'll lose but i think we'll just scrape it 24-28 to the Eagles.

Re: Barrow Raiders V Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:47 am  

Can see it being a tough day if the squad that played a Hunslet show up as it sounds like a poor performance.

Will be my first visit to Barrow so I'll hope for and predict an Eagles win.

Barrow 22
Eagles 32

Attendance: 1,260
M.O.M: Henderson

Re: Barrow Raiders V Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:19 am  

Well, after 25mins I was ready to head out and start the car. But I'm gonna give boys massive credit for staying with it and showing up really well when they could have collapsed like Indian cricketers.

Let's be honest here. The first twenty minutes were humiliating. Once we got that foot in the door we were off. At 22-26 I thought we were going to do it. But alas it's a failure point we did well to earn and we should be proud of that.

Some very strange calls from the ref, mostly in our favour, which is a change.

MoM for me was Corey Hanson. Excellent tackling and line breaks, this kids getting better ever game.

Re: Barrow Raiders V Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Sun Aug 14, 2011 9:00 am  

I'd have snapped your hand off if you'd have offered me a point at 26-0 after 15 mins but having got within four points and 26-22 and at 30-26 I'm disappointed we didn't win. We showed great character to come back but the fact remains we were still on the bus for the first 20 mins of the game. Danny Mills should've been brought off earlier, if he ever plays another game for us it'll be too soon. Agree with the Doctor about Corey Hanson.

Just a little note about the embarrassing little chavs who wouldn't shut up trying to provoke us all game, then the one that actually came and started on me, I think the reason they left 5 mins before the end was something to do with their curfew on their electronic tags. They'd looted sports direct then gone to the game, only to spend the whole game facing away from the pitch at us. Even the older Barrow fans next to us were laughing at them. They truly were pathetic. Also not seen Craven Park so sparsely populated - ever. Oh and where's the roof gone?

Re: Barrow Raiders V Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Sun Aug 14, 2011 10:29 am  

The roofs been sold to cashforscrap.com

Agree about the chavs, truly pathetic behaviour. Theyve emabrrassed the club as well as themselves. Im considering moving to Barrow and opening an Adidas shop, id make millions.

Re: Barrow Raiders V Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Sun Aug 14, 2011 11:09 am  

E.S.O wrote:

I'd have snapped your hand off if you'd have offered me a point at 26-0 after 15 mins but having got within four points and 26-22 and at 30-26 I'm disappointed we didn't win. We showed great character to come back but the fact remains we were still on the bus for the first 20 mins of the game. Danny Mills should've been brought off earlier, if he ever plays another game for us it'll be too soon. Agree with the Doctor about Corey Hanson.

Don't exaggerate - it was all of 20 minutes before the score was 26-0. I don't think you can put all that down to "being on the bus". Give them credit for some smart moves in their kicking game and I'd like to look at the bounced try again. I was miles away but it didn't look like a try to me. I was dropped on when the touch judge ran to the dead ball line.

Both touch judges from Barrow, I understand, and a referee with Barrow in his name. Interesting appointments. On the other hand, we came back into the game partly on the back of a 10-1 penalty count.

Re: Barrow Raiders V Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Sun Aug 14, 2011 11:10 am  

E.S.O wrote:

I'd have snapped your hand off .......

Re: Barrow Raiders V Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:19 pm  

griff1998 wrote:

Don't exaggerate - it was all of 20 minutes before the score was 26-0. I don't think you can put all that down to "being on the bus". Give them credit for some smart moves in their kicking game and I'd like to look at the bounced try again. I was miles away but it didn't look like a try to me. I was dropped on when the touch judge ran to the dead ball line.

Both touch judges from Barrow, I understand, and a referee with Barrow in his name. Interesting appointments. On the other hand, we came back into the game partly on the back of a 10-1 penalty count.

Where did I put it ALL down to being on the bus? If you took your red and gold tinted spectacles off for one second Griff you'd admit we were nothing short of crap for the first quarter. Yes, they were efficient, but I'd have backed an under 12s team to score a couple of tries on us in that opening 20 mins. Luckily we started playing like we can after that and got back into the game and got that all important point.