One of those games. Annoying that we lost and don't want to blame the ref and officials too much but pretty clear to me that if we'd been at HQ we'd have won. Losing Croft really hurt us and just hope thst it's not a long term problem. Young Lumb is really getting targeted and while I feel that some of the errors he made tonight were forced through their smart tactics, there should probably be a point where we give ECW a shot. Bigger picture is: we look like a proper rugby league side for the 1st time in ages, and if we stick at it the rewards will come. Get Brad Arthur signed up now.

Sorry, but your first try was miles forward, Currie didn't do anything to affect Connor with that knock on, he stood his ground. You also got away with a massive knock on I think it was your winger? So to say 'robbed' is comical.

It was very unlikely we would have scored, but according to Arthurs presser the reason to clock ran down at the end was because the ref was telling us that we only had 5 in the scrum and not 6. Forgetting he had sin binned Palasia 5 minutes earlier 

Decent game between two good sides I thought. very narrow margins made the difference. If Ratchford had been pulled down a couple of inches shorter, had connor's kick cleared the bar, had the head shot just missed instead of just making contact... Ref was a bit iffy but so was some of our discipline and decision making.
Pluses we're how well we handled Sneeyd's kicking and keeping Williams on the leash. Pack held its own though thought warrington's interchanges maybe edged ours. Both our second rowers had good games, as did Connor, Hall and Miller.
Not going to grumble, we're still heading in the right direction. We now need to ensure we don't slack off for the more "winnable" games.

We'd looked so much better in attack, think we would have taken the win if Croft hadn't been injured.Lisone made 4 metres per carry, lower than any other forward, that isn't an impact prop.

A very measured presser from BA. I really like his approach. There's some things for us to work on,  but we are improving game on game. For the first time in a.long while I can see the results of what we do in training on game day.  

But in that presser, quite a telling quote. "They put us down to 12. They should know the rules (around the scrum)". Refs interpretation is one thing, but either not knowing the rules, or failing to apply them, is another thing entirely. I expect the club to raise formally. Grant has form, e.g. Hull/Leigh. 

Disappointing defeat, in many ways we deserved the win. We’re improving, just need a bit of luck and a settled spine.

Ref sh*t himself after his half time talk with burgess, spineless

RFL should be ensuring coaches cant do that

That aside, played pretty well, but need to cut out the errors, still get the feeling it takes a lot of effort for this team not to do something stupid, hopefully with BA continuing to hammer home the message, playing smart rugby becomes natural as the season goes on

So, a narrow defeat to opponents with their entire three quarter line out injured seems to be greeted with optimism by the fans. It shows what meagre fare we’ve got used to recently. If we had some dynamic game changers waiting to enter the fray I might feel a little more positive myself, but this is a game we should have been winning. Better than last season, but I just don’t see where the regular and necessary future gains will be coming from. Better than watching a passive Rohan Smith coached team, but still a troubling outcome for me.

Coaches getting to speak to refs at half time shows what a shi% show Rugby League has become


Lisone = Liability


Team showing a lot more but still brain dead , examples yesterday from Lisone , Connor, Lumb .Handley and Holroyd .


We really should be beating a team with both centres and Wingers out of the team .

What did Connor and Lumb do that was brain dead?