Then Mr Potter had the option of putting Lomax on the field who apparently is a goalkicker. Instead, he was on the bench for most of the night. Mr Potter doesn't get off scot free from Friday's match. He definitely has to take responsibility for allocating the goalkicking. That was his job.

Must try harder Fishsta.

Must try spelling, Tony Stark.

Best back handed compliment ever.

Lomax went off injured, didn't he?

Better now? Point still remains

Potter said Wellens kicked well in training and was the best of the bunch.

As it turns out, Wello kicked poorly on the night and Potter said Lomax would have taken over kicking after coming on had he not been injured.

How you can blame Potter for that is beyond me.

Lomax was on the bench for most of the match. He only went off injured late in the second half. That's plenty of goalkicking time he missed by not being on the field. I think the only goal he couldn't have kicked was the penalty, due to him being off injured.

Who plays in a match is a coach's decision. Who kicks goals is a coach's decision. If those things go wrong, it's the coach's responsibility. They went wrong on Friday night. Thus, I blame the coach.

Disciplined by the RFL's standard where apparently you can punch someone in the face and not get penalised, never mind disciplined.

Right.

I've watched Cunningham drop elbows onto downed players, just like Joynt used to, just like Sculthorpe used to and just like Pryce and Wilkin still do. They are all Stains players. And they constantly get away with it.

Enough is enough. The sport of Rugby League is under threat from ridiculous decisions such as this.

It goes a bit deeper for me.
Why do we insist on playing players out of position.
We had the countries best stand off (allegedly) at scum half, we had not even our best second row at stand off. i know he had a good game against Leeds in the cup , but the bilge on show from him Friday outweighs that performance, his short kicking game was dreadful. We had better kicking options from the juniors in Foster & Ellis who seem to bang em over from everywhere , cant get a look in.
Surely we should play a scrum half at scrum half(1 goalkicker)
Whilst Chris Dean played well , I dont think Jamie Foster would have been any worse (another goal kicker) . this would eradicate the need to press gang Wellens into goal kicking as you would have 2 to chose from.

He might have missed them all by more than Wellens too, would you blame the coach then?



You blame the coach for picking the player who kicked best in training as stand in kicker?

Lomax came up with a bad error when he knocked on in good position whilst he was on the pitch, is that the coach's fault for not leaving him on the bench?

Everything that goes wrong in a match isn't the coaches fault. Believe it or not, players make mistakes themselves sometimes.