Just a final word on the implications of the Louis Sherriff yellow card. In a game in which defence depends on 13 players on one side lining up against 13 on the opposing side the loss of one of those players has a massive effect provided the attacking side uses its resources intelligently to create holes in the defensive line. Of course we have all been at games where the depleted side has managed to survive the 10 minutes without conceding but that has been the result of poor attacking play. I don't know if our players' heads went down or not and I set little store by the opinions of radio commentators. The fact is that Workington exploited their advantage to great effect. The lesson to be learned is to play within the laws.
I have still not discovered how Sherriff's crime was heinous enough to warrant a sending off. High tackles happen all the time in rugby league matches. Most of them are accidental and many of the most deliberate and dangerous get no more punishment than a penalty and possibly a strong word. Sherriff is not a dirty player and being one of the shortest players on the pitch would need a ladder to get to head high on many of the Workington players. There appears to be no footage from the match on You Tube. However the decision was made and we suffered.
I am not sure what Richard Horne was supposed to do in the circumstances. For a start he is the wrong side of the whitewash. He can't get his kit on and take the place of the sin binned player. And even if he makes a substitution there are still only 12 men on the pitch.
Moving on to the York match I assume that Horne will have drilled into the players the need to keep their brains unscrambled and not give away penalties. Coupled with that is the need to complete our sets of 6. I believe this match is winnable. Let's hope my faith is rewarded.
Given what was at stake this must represent a good result. Of course it would have been even better had that last penalty gone over the bar rather than hitting the woodwork but it is now all to play for against Newcastle next weekend. Newcastle seem to have been a bit of a bogy team for us in the last couple of seasons but, Keighley apart, their recent results have not been great and we are probably playing with more cohesion than when we lost to them a few weeks ago. Let's hope a few of our stayaway fans make the effort to turn up and support the team.
Some good points by the Cas fan about the penalties & the ref .
More I think about it we should have won & deserved to , when we were leaving the ground a York fan said we should have won by 20 points .
Going back to penalty the Dons got when one of our players pushed a York player back into the ruck, the guy should not have been there but a lot of refs would not have us a penalty . The ref levelled matters up when he gave a penalty against Hedges which appeared to be wrong .
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