Ball steal was 1 on 1. Flat of the hand by walker. Every pass was forward going by the nutters near us. Ref did not have a good game. But never affected the result.

I was surprised by the pace of the game, it was no faster then the games we play week in week out, so that's quite promising for the Middle 8s. Not too gutted to have lost that one, we were not going to ever win the cup, but enjoyed the game.

There have to be question marks over at least two of the KR tries, and in the end the score flattered them, but a good experience for the team, and with a fully fit team, who knows....

I thought we did reasonably OK. The line up surprised me as the backline and the bench looked a real hotch potch, but having said that Walker played well in the centre. What happened to Ulugia who is starting to look handy.

I've been pretty ambivalent but I thought we missed Harry Siejka who defends well and gives a bit of structure as well as pulling Addy away from the base of the scrum.

On the negative side, Henry was poor in the centre and worse on the wing. Our last tackle kick option is very poor.

Ref: A closed fist punch to the face of a marker is a red card.
The pass for Mantellato's try was in front of me and looked flat.
The ball steal looked 2 on 1 and took forever.

Overall 55-45 disappointed, although Lowes didn't sound too bothered. HKR will be in the middle 8s in my view.

Well, the expected defeat, but I hadn't expected to come away feeling so frustrated. First, the ref is not fit to referee, as no first class official could possibly see a prop punching a little hooker out, in cold blood, at a PTB, as anything other than a red card. The cowardly fckr should be banned 2 games for that but won't be as it was "dealt with". Who knows what difference a man advantage, and a prop to the good, might have made?

Also, we have player laid out and not moving, yet the yellow cretin was the only man in the ground who failed to agree the game should be stopped. He was 30 yards away and had no way of knowing if it was a bad head injury yet shamefully he played on. Utter pillokk.

Second, all season we have been like rabbits in the headlights under the high ball. Maybe it was a bit blustery, though surely not that bad, but we regularly just stand back and let the ball bounce, are we mad? Go for the fkn thing! If ya drop it, ya drop it, but this leaving it to bounce is suicidal - and so it proved.

Overall on the play, the Bulls looked if anything the better team, and in amongst, played some lovely stuff, and got some good tries. KR, in contrast, fed off our mistakes, git regularly lucky and took their chances, but while much of our play was at least as god as theirs, they were more professional and less prone to shooting themselves in the foot. Letting the kickoff go dead, just after scoring, is a great way to switch momentum. They scored. There is no excuse. They scored. Henry's ludicrous forward bat, on his own 40. They scored.

I went away frustrated, but unexpectedly heartened too. KR know they dodged a bullet, but I am glad we are out of the Cup, and whatever significance you attach to the game, it showed that we can put 30 deserved points past a top-8 SL side. And our aggression, and go forward was excellent. But Jimmy does need to do something about the pantomime defending, sure some was unlucky, and sure some (like the forward pass) was ludicrous, but you just can't ship 50 points at home.

life must be amazing viewing it from behind those white black n red tinted glasses

It could be better, if you could stop posting trolling drivel

trolling am i? Show me any sort of trolling i came on here to try get a fair assumption of the game but your analysis is biased and poor and wouldn't bother trolling you petal

Yes you are trolling, because rather than responding to anything said, you just posted an insult. I do of course understand you do this as you don't actually have the wit to enter into a conversation, and trying (very badly) to wind people up probably distracts what passes for your mind from your small penis. Now jog on.

Haha what a card you are

Now who's posting insults? And I thought Saint's fans were sore losers......

FA - To be fair to Oafy , his first post was anything but trollish . On the in game thread he posted:

Was impressed with your hooker today, thought sidlow was really good, gaskell did really well,
I must admit when I saw walker lash out i put my head in my hands n said straight away he was off think we probably got away with 1 there, all your tries came up our middle probably a result of having 1 prop, our fringe defence was up to the job today you just bust us up the middle as expected, all in all the game was won with our backs being a bit better than yours (no offence)
best of luck for the season really enjoyed my visit (and the £2.50 a pint)

I think my new self discipline rule is to never read past half way down page one of any game thread.

Thanks bullnorthen I came on to talk about today's game and maybe had a little sarcastic dig towards ferocious biased n pretty poor post i suppose that was to make me feel better about my small penis

Bullnorthern, I was at the game, not in the thread, and just responded wearily when I had posted a long discussion about the game, to be met with his poor one liner which seems to be just looking for a rise. As he has now admitted. He could have commented on what it was he so disagreed with and why, but instead just farted. If he makes a reasonable post it will be treated as such.

Here goes
No 1 it wasn't a punch from walker he pushed him in the face
no2, I wouldn't say Adam walker is a cowardly fckr
No3 you had a 3 prop advantage all game
no4 there wasn't a head injury so game was correctly played on
no5 you say you were the better team then contradict yourself ,the game was even you wasn't the better side and our tries didn't all come off you mistakes if that's the case we must be 1 hell of a lucky team