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| For me, with results going the way they have, this is our most important game of the season to date. Time to step up and see if we are up to it. Fingers crossed.
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| Masters of our own downfall today.
The amount of dropped ball in key positions gifted that game to Featherstone. 2 of their tries came from us dropping the ball in our own 10m area. Lilley hitting the post with a simple conversion also didn’t help. Farcical game management in the last 5 minutes.
Featherstone lost the arm wrestle and started with the niggle. We got sucked into it and lost our heads. Bottled it. Simple as that.
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| Quote: dddooommm "Masters of our own downfall today.
The amount of dropped ball in key positions gifted that game to Featherstone. 2 of their tries came from us dropping the ball in our own 10m area. Lilley hitting the post with a simple conversion also didn’t help. Farcical game management in the last 5 minutes.
Featherstone lost the arm wrestle and started with the niggle. We got sucked into it and lost our heads. Bottled it. Simple as that.'"
Nicely summed up. Very disappointing, but in no way surprising. We don't seem able to step up when it matters and I'm not really sure why. On paper the squad looks solid at Championship level but somehow we continue to fall short. The season isn't over yet. Hopefully onwards and upwards.
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| So many chances to win that game and time and again we coughed the ball up and handed possession in our half. EOC will be disappointed with some of the tries conceded as well, some soft defending at times.
I think overall the game probably deserved to be a draw but in the ended it was heavily influenced by the officials which is always disappointing. James Ford was on the pitch at HT confronting Worsley and his officials and he's got the rub of the green in that 2nd half with some controversial calls. The ball steal was the other side of the pitch to me but it seemed soft. Tafua he seems to enjoy sending off, once again you look at what went on in that game wonder how he has got to a sin bin especially at that point in the match.
But play smarter and we are never in a position where it costs us the match. Chalk that game off as another close game we gave failed to control and has proved costly.
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| I thought Worsley did alright TBH. He penalised Fev regularly for slowing down the PTB. He also dealt with the Bussey trip quickly.
That loss was mainly down to us dropping the ball too much. Their first two tries were down to our edge defence ball watching and Springer's try was helped by us not spotting the danger quick enough.
Holmes had a real off day with the bombs.
Despite all that if Lilley hadn't hit the post with a simple conversion we would've won.
What was Taufua binned for?
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| He pulled Reynolds’ hair after the incident in the corner. Idiotic from Taufua to get involved.
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| Quote: Bully_Boxer "But play smarter and we are never in a position where it costs us the match. Chalk that game off as another close game we gave failed to control and has proved costly.'"
Perfectly put. Lawrence did his best to get round everyone and tell them not to get sucked into the niggle but certain players are not smart enough to listen.
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| Quote: Bullseye "
Despite all that if Lilley hadn't hit the post with a simple conversion we would've won.
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Said to my lad at the time, give Lilley another 10 attempts at that and he kicks it everytime. A costly error that summed up the general sloppiness of the day. Fine margins that we have failed to be on the right side of too many times this year.
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| Reynolds 5/5. Lilley 2/4. Goal-kicking proving crucial. Again. That simple one where he hit the post, it makes it a slightly different game where Featherstone are chasing a try rather than waiting for a penalty to draw level.
Holmes too is putting us under pressure at the back. Today were difficult conditions but it's his job to catch those. He dropped a couple against Widnes too that resulted in tries so I don't think it was an "off day".
Feel really deflated. Second spot was there for the taking but we've imploded again.
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| Holmes has struggled this year for form but it was always going to be tough to just slip back into top gear after the health issues. Wonder if Franco will get an opportunity next week, I assume he is fit, perhaps Holme would benefit from a rest. Or perhaps Lehmann who hasn't been in great form either.
Great result for Fev though which they will rightly celebrate when they see the game on YouTube! Joking aside it must have been the smallest following from Fev we have seen, the club was clearly expecting more to open the Rooley end.
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| Annoying.
I’m completely fed up with this. The players we have should be finishing off games like this. That’s 5 games we’ve lost by a point or drawn this season.
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| Doesn't bode well for play off rugby does it? We had experience out there as well who should have taken control when we were pushing passes when we just needed to control possession and territory. EOC spoke about the need for patience before the game, where was it?
We've seen this lack of game management all year but earlier in the season we seemed much stronger defensively, we seem to be shipping a lot more simple tries in now. Frustration is the word, when you know these players are capable of so much more and have lost against a pretty ordinary Fev performance.
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| Apparently we had a 51% completion rate. Despite that we were in winning position until 2mins to go. EOC must be pulling his hair out.
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| Quote: Bullseye "Apparently we had a 51% completion rate. Despite that we were in winning position until 2mins to go. EOC must be pulling his hair out.'"
Never felt like we were going to kick on and win the game though did it? Said to my lad early in 2nd half it felt like the game would be won due to an error rather than either side grabbing the game and winning it due to skill.
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| We really paid for our crap start as well. Fev play a simple game, five drives and kick but Holmes really struggled under Addy's bombs and his confidence took a shake. Then we conceded poorly on either edge. Lehmann racing out of the line for one and another where we stood like statues. I thought we did well to come back from 0-12 to be leading 14-12 at half time. EOC's use of Pele really got us back in the game.
Like you say, we kept letting them back in it when we should've killed it off. When Taufua go sin binned the end had an air of inevitability about it.
It was disappointing to blow it again but I actually enjoyed the game. Miles better than the procession versus Whitehaven. Fev have some great pantomime villains and their coach being animated on the touchline (almost like an excited fan) was good theatre.
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