Irregular Hoops wrote:I think the Dobbins (team and supporters) turned up expecting the win and got a bit of a shock. Think they’d started to believe Sky’s BS hype.
We neutralised their second phase attack, and they didn’t know what to do when it didn’t work. I was confident we could score whenever we got down their end.
Their MO is to score a lot of early points and hang in for the win, but in all honesty they were never truly in the game. They only reason why they had a sniff Is because they got every decision. It would have been a travesty if they’d pinched it.
It wasn’t even one of our best performances, but it was good enough to make the great unwashed pipe down a bit, so that will do for me.
After watching the game back and seeing the 3 decisions of no try I can’t understand why all 3 were ruled out. The first one it’s clear to me that swift pats the ball and it goes backwards irrelevant of were Swift ends up as the angle in line with the goal line shows the ball does not go forward, so a clear legal try. The second one that Carlos scores is again a try and given the ref sent it up as a try for Thaler to over rule is farcical. Reynolds is not obstructing and makes no attempt to collide with Kenny-Dowell and he isn’t even looking. Kenny-Dowell knows he’s beaten so deliberately alters his angle and runs into Reynolds in the hope of milking the decision which sadly worked due to Moore & Thalers incompetence. The 3rd one is the only one I’d agree was probably the right call. I’d also question why Moore felt the tip tackle by Linnett on Lane was legal when he lifted Lanes legs clearly above the horizontal and above the waist. The other two that begs a question was when Carlos played the ball legally and a rovers player stuck his foot in the way yet Moore allowed play on then for some reason called it back as a knock on which it wasn’t. The second one was the ball steal by Parcel on Fash which shows that Lawler still has a hand on Fash so effectively there are two in the tackle end. The ball is stripped.
It was also noticeable the amount of times Rovers backs were in front of the kicker Moore ignored that.
So all in all I thought we dug in and deservedly won a game that was tighter than it really should have been.
