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| The highly predictable thing was that they would easily murder our forwards and that in the end the resulting lack of field position would tire us out. It's a bit like the "play without a 7" of last year, everybody knows we need a couple if big grizzlies with grunt, while I understand the difficulty on short notice, if we were ever .to make a fist if this season then we needed to solve that problem first. We didn't, and it cost us 2 points which on the day we could have had, if our pack hadn't been murdered.
Schoolboy mistakes are to be expected when the team is full of lads barely out of short pants, but Thomas was a liability at the back, and his errors piled more pressure on us.
I don't know what Pryce was doing but near the end when everyone was tired and we needed just one score to maybe nick a point, I never saw him, and instead we compounded our troubles by messing up last tackle plays repeatedly, when you'd expect Pryce to be directing things. Thought he did nothing much all afternoon.
I knew once someone mentioned the ref, some troll would jump in with "blame the ref yadda yadda" but in a game with 6 points in it only a moron would fail to understand the critical importance of the officiating, and the fact is that we came out very far on the wrong side of an even break, and all you can do is wonder what might have been, had the officials not given a procession of key decisions against us. It is perfectly legitimate to discuss the ref and linesemen's contributions, for which Rochdale will have been extremely grateful. Notable decisions included failing to see a kick scooped out of play by a defender, thus giving Hornets the feed at a crucial point, failing to see some bizarrely blatant offsides (yet jumping on the sucker "ball not out of scrum" twice), and consistently ignoring Hornets moving off the mark, and a steely determination to give 5th tackle penalties or "stripped ball" come what may.
From a Bulls perspective, in some ways it doesn't matter, as we are screwed this year and always were. We may have given Rochdale a good game, but it was ultimately so clearly men against boys and that's the thing that will haunt us all season. I foresee a long hard sequence of being proud of the effort of the young lads, but with little reward.
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| Can we have Jamie Peacock back?
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| Quote: Bullseye "Leeds have been great and maybe helping more yet.'"
Yes, absolutely - I don't see ANY other clubs offering us help. Hull were full of it before the season started, they have no gone very quiet, and I don't see any of the clubs who bought our players to sit on their benches offering to loan them back, so thank you Leeds.
I suppose it is the least that they can do anyway, seeing as they caused all this in the first place...
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"It may be that the honourable gentleman doesn't like mixing with his own side … but we on this side have a more convivial, fraternal spirit." Jacob Rees-Mogg 21/10/21
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| Cas have been more than willing to help out & take unwanted players off your hands. Without so much as a thank you.
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