Whatever happens after an event doesn't change what happened at the event.

So they were finished but now they're not? All's well that ends well I guess.

'They looked finished today' was the comment not that they were. If the poster got that impression from that game he got that impression, performances after the event doesn't change what happened in the earlier game, shame, as we won yesterday we could retrospectively be awarded the points against Salford.

No, it does change his impression he got at an earlier game. It might mean he was wrong though, particularly having given an opinion that someone could play to a high standard anymore when they demonstrably could.

It doesn't change the impression he had at the time.

Sorry, you're right - that was a typo, i left the 'not' bit out. That was his impression at the time and that doesn't change. Just means that impression was wrong, that's all.

Can an impression be right or wrong?

Yes. His impression was that Bridge amd Hodgson were finished as players. They aren't finished as players as yesterday proved. Therefore he is wrong. That's the problem with offering such a final opinion or 'impression' - you leave yourself open to being proved wrong.

an impression is a feeling, a feeling can be neither right or wrong.

I have a feeling the earth is flat. I'll be back in a bit when I've found the corners.

The feeling isn't the same as the fact. I have a feeling you know that. but don't want to say,

Having watched yesterdays game, with my eyes, i know for a fact that Brett Hodgson and Chris Bridge aren't finished as RL players. I have a feeling you know that, but don't want to say.

I never said they were, more proof that the feeling isn't the same as fact.

I never said that you said that they were, only that they're not finished, that this was a fact, and that I had a feeling you'd agree with me.

Well to be fair you don't know for a fact that their RL careers aren't finished, for all you know this morning Hodgson and Bridge might have had their legs blown off in a horrible calor gas accident.