The lads played very well today and should have come home with 2 points. We were always in the game and matched Dewsbury every minute of the match. There were some cracking hits in defence as well!
The big issue with the fans and players will be what happened about 4 minutes from time. Groat went over to the right of the posts with the score at 10 - 6. All of the players and fans jumped in the air to celebrate as everyone was convince it was a try. The first thing I do before celebrating is watch for the refs reaction to see if he takes a step backwards to give the try. The ref was stood at the side of the incident and ran straight to the 20 metre line. I never saw him make a signal so no one knew why the try had been chalked off. it topped off a shocking performance from him.
On the way home on Radio Leeds the bloke interviewing the Dewsbury coach said that he had heard the ref say the ball had been grounded on the defenders leg and then Groat had released the ball. Only the match video will clear this one up. From where we were it looked a try all day long.
To top it off he then gave a Crookes try to Dewsbury while Crookes was laid on his back held up. Again where we were there was no way the ball was grounded . we will need the tapes again for this one!
The lads gave a great go of it today and deserved the points. Well done to all the boys and keep plugging away the results will come.
How Dewsbury are fourth on that display I don't know.
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[b:34z93omz][color=#000000:34z93omz]"Lost the battle, lost the war
Lost the things worth living for
Lost the will to win the fight
One more pill to kill the pain"[/color:34z93omz][/b:34z93omz] - Michael Burnett:
You have one to many letters in your description of him there S-O, maybe remove one and it would be accurate.
Much I have a pathological dislike for the man and the club you cannot help but admirer what he and the club have done over the years with arguably less resources than we have.
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