Wow. You noticed an obvious typo. Well done, I'm happy for you. If you work hard you can even reach Lawrie's level of noticing that some words are different to other words.

Are you being serious?

Think I watched a different game to a few people last night. I thought it was a really good game, I though for the large part we played pretty well, made some silly mistakes and gave away some silly penalties but we didn’t do too bad. I thought Sinfield was really good, lots of short little inside balls which made good metres, bar one kick which was an attempt at a low percentage play, he had an absolutely outstanding kicking game, Hall, Watkins, Moon did what was expected, didn’t stand out but weren’t poor, JJB was as dynamic as he always is and gave away a couple of stupid penalties as he always does. Delany played well but looked like he was in pieces.

No problem whatsoever with Hardakers first error, went for the big play, very nearly made it, I would have liked to hear Ganson’s explanation for that one, I would have seen it as grounded, tackle complete, knock-on by Hardaker and Laffranchi, a flop by laffranchi, all before I could see it as a try, but It’s not important in the scheme of things, and I would rather a young potential superstar like Hardaker continued to try the spectacular than for him to play it safe every time. We have won 6 championships in 9 years by never being afraid of trying something, lets continue that. The second error deserves a clip round the ear though. He bottled out of the challenge and let himself and his team-mates down.

Thought the refereeing left a little to be desired though, not putting any blame on him, or saying his decisions had a great effect on the game but I thought the ruck was a complete lottery with decisions seemingly made at random, and twice when saints were under pressure he stopped play and pretty much allowed the defence to rest, including one bizarre situation where leeds were 5th and last on the saints 10 with a quick PTB and he stops it for a good three or four minutes to allow Howarth to receive treatment and rejoin the defensive line. I think that needs to be looked at, otherwise id simply tell every tackler to lay down at the PTB when the opposition are near the line and wait for the delay and the defense to re-set. He also seemed to let a long time pass between a scrum being formed and it being put in without stopping the clock, including having a chat with the players a couple of times. As I say, not really a comment on the game or either teams performance but just some observations on the ref.

You put 11 players instead of 13

I'd rather have my word skills compared to your drumming skills

The speed of ball across the line is pretty poor, starting with the distribution from Dummy Half. Burrow's first thought, in general, appears to be to catch defence napping and so a good pass is often an after thought. This is then putting pressure on the first receiver and the problems increase as the ball changes hands down the line. With the outside backs we now have it is almost criminal how under used they were as we got beyond 20 minutes.
As for JJB flying out of the line, he has done this regularly for a few years, sometimes he shuts a play down, but it increasingly seems to lead to problems.

We seemed to lose our way last night and no amount of effort could refocus us. Perhaps working a back to basics message into the team for a few weeks might refocus the players. Get a hooker in position and lay the platform. I remember thinking how much time we had spent in the Saints 20 and didn't seem to have much of an idea how to break them down, resorting to scoots from dummy half or rushed miracle balls, instead of crisp moves like the one for Watkins try.

Agree to this completely every other team has a proper hooker we need one too be it hood mcshane or clarke from cars would be good

Sorry I meant Castleford Damn predictive text

...and if you work hard you can even reach a level that allows you to count further than 11.

We have two hookers. We just dont utilise them.

TBH I mentioned last night that as soon as St's stopped the mistakes that we would be in a game. They were not spectacular, but they were effective in what they did.

There is no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater, we dont become a bad team overnight, although we do look a little jaded in a few areas but nowt so serious that wholesale lynching of squad members is required.

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Clearly you & the rest of the specials also can't see the difference between a mistake and an inability.



Satire. Nice one.