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Quote: Kosh "The comments being referred to came from one post-match interview on Blunderside IIRC. As you can see above, none of the press conference quotes contained any reference to kicks.

As I recall, it was actually the interviewer who specifically asked if the missed kicks had cost us the game. Sharp at first denied it. The interviewer pressed the point and mentioned that the kicks were simple ones. Sharp said something along the lines of Hall would normally expect to kick those and would probably be disappointed that he didn't, and that he was only a kid and would learn from the experience. The interviewer then said something about if the kicks had gone over we'd have won, and Sharp agreed with him - which was the truth.

On here that quickly got converted into Sharp blaming Hall for the loss. Go figure.
Yeah I remember it being on Humberside. I seem to remember him being asked about Hall's selection for his SL debut and subsequent kicking performance, and he made a comment along the lines of 'He was in the team to kick goals and didn't kick them all'.

As you say, not specifically pinning the blame of the result on Hall, but it is easy to see why the kid might have been a bit upset if he heard that kind of thing. Although that's something that should be easily sorted behind closed doors and only the smallest minority of us have even a chance of knowing how it all panned out between them, in the main it's simply gossip and conjecture.

IMO it was as much a case of Sharp being led down the garden path a bit whilst in the disappointing aftermath of a narrow defeat, it's no secret he wasn't entirely media savvy at times.