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Quote ="HamsterChops"Gave too many penalties IMO, but didn't have any effect on the game itself. Was just a little quick to penalise anything and everything, but as long as it's same for both sides (which it was), I generally won't complain at that.
On the flip side, he was fairly lenient with Josh Barlow who could have spent about 50 minutes in the sin bin. Nutcase that lad.
Tend to agree with most other comments about the game. Clare proved he is undoubtedly the best fullback option in our squad. Whilst I'd still rather sign a specialist one and play Clare elsewhere, he is definitely the best option currently available to us. I think it also showed when we have our best props available, our pack has a much better chance of dominating the game and giving the backs the space to play off it. Keeping Clough, Sidlow & Kavanagh fit is a big thing for us, especially if Mitch Clark is then the 4th option to do the "come off the bench, knock some bodies flying" role.
Defence much much better than previous weeks, although I won't get too carried away as Swinton didn't offer a whole lot. Blythe was the exception to that rule though, and I would very much point at him for those tries. They were obviously going to run at the side where the young lad was, and Blythe did very little to help him out, other than leaving him stranded. The try he bombed when he was over the line too was ridiculous. Had that been a close game, his complacency could have lost us the ">match.'"
Barlow's brother Sam is also a raving lunatic. Can't help wondering if it's nature or nurture, or maybe both.
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Quote ="HamsterChops"Gave too many penalties IMO, but didn't have any effect on the game itself. Was just a little quick to penalise anything and everything, but as long as it's same for both sides (which it was), I generally won't complain at that.
On the flip side, he was fairly lenient with Josh Barlow who could have spent about 50 minutes in the sin bin. Nutcase that lad.
Tend to agree with most other comments about the game. Clare proved he is undoubtedly the best fullback option in our squad. Whilst I'd still rather sign a specialist one and play Clare elsewhere, he is definitely the best option currently available to us. I think it also showed when we have our best props available, our pack has a much better chance of dominating the game and giving the backs the space to play off it. Keeping Clough, Sidlow & Kavanagh fit is a big thing for us, especially if Mitch Clark is then the 4th option to do the "come off the bench, knock some bodies flying" role.
Defence much much better than previous weeks, although I won't get too carried away as Swinton didn't offer a whole lot. Blythe was the exception to that rule though, and I would very much point at him for those tries. They were obviously going to run at the side where the young lad was, and Blythe did very little to help him out, other than leaving him stranded. The try he bombed when he was over the line too was ridiculous. Had that been a close game, his complacency could have lost us the ">match.'"
Barlow's brother Sam is also a raving lunatic. Can't help wondering if it's nature or nurture, or maybe both.
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Quote ="Bulliac"I seem to remember a Bull's player being sent of whilst on the bench. It was quite a few years ago and, to be honest, I've forgotten who it was. The circumstances were a little different though, in that a scrap developed on the pitch near the touchline and the fight then spilled over into the 'tech area', so he'd no distance to run and get involved.....
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Quote ="Bulliac"I seem to remember a Bull's player being sent of whilst on the bench. It was quite a few years ago and, to be honest, I've forgotten who it was. The circumstances were a little different though, in that a scrap developed on the pitch near the touchline and the fight then spilled over into the 'tech area', so he'd no distance to run and get involved.....
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Paul Medley against New Zealand? Some point in the early / mid nineties. | |
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| Quote ="maurice"In Barlows defence he only had 15m to go as it was close to the dug outs, awful ref lost it completely and should have stopped the incident by dealing with one a couple of minutes earlier when the Swinton player took a few swings with the play dead after a knock on, nothing done then same player does same again to same player and again nothing done so all hell breaks out. Some very poor refs at these games'"
Standard of refereeing is getting worse and worse. Since when is Chris Campbell SL standard?!
I was at Dews - Fev yesterday and Roberts had with out a doubt one of the worst performances i've seen from a match official in nye-on 20 years of watching rugby league. No control what so ever, and his grasp on the technical decisions seemed to be very poor.
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Quote ="Bulliac"I seem to remember a Bull's player being sent of whilst on the bench. It was quite a few years ago and, to be honest, I've forgotten who it was. The circumstances were a little different though, in that a scrap developed on the pitch near the touchline and the fight then spilled over into the 'tech area', so he'd no distance to run and get involved.....
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I'm sure I remember David Hill exiting the bench to participate in an impromptu martial arts event in a game against, inevitably, Leigh. Alex Murphy had blatantly punched Brian Butler in the kisser precipitating the brawl. Murphy walked away and sat on the ball as the rest of both squads attempted to resolve the dispute.
Murphy was probably the best player I ever saw, and definitely the most complete ar****le. |
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Quote ="Bulliac"I seem to remember a Bull's player being sent of whilst on the bench. It was quite a few years ago and, to be honest, I've forgotten who it was. The circumstances were a little different though, in that a scrap developed on the pitch near the touchline and the fight then spilled over into the 'tech area', so he'd no distance to run and get involved.....
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I'm sure I remember David Hill exiting the bench to participate in an impromptu martial arts event in a game against, inevitably, Leigh. Alex Murphy had blatantly punched Brian Butler in the kisser precipitating the brawl. Murphy walked away and sat on the ball as the rest of both squads attempted to resolve the dispute.
Murphy was probably the best player I ever saw, and definitely the most complete ar****le. | |
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Quote ="Stan Doffarf"I'm sure I remember David Hill exiting the bench to participate in an impromptu martial arts event in a game against, inevitably, Leigh. Alex Murphy had blatantly punched Brian Butler in the kisser precipitating the brawl. Murphy walked away and sat on the ball as the rest of both squads attempted to resolve the dispute.
Murphy was probably the best player I ever saw, and definitely the most complete ar**** ">le.'"
Not sure if you're correct with it being Murphy in that particular game, though what you describe is certainly the way Murphy worked - start a fight then disappear..
Definitely agree with your summing up! To be honest, his attitude to the game makes his appearance in the Hall of Fame an embarrassment as far as I'm concerned.
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Quote ="Stan Doffarf"I'm sure I remember David Hill exiting the bench to participate in an impromptu martial arts event in a game against, inevitably, Leigh. Alex Murphy had blatantly punched Brian Butler in the kisser precipitating the brawl. Murphy walked away and sat on the ball as the rest of both squads attempted to resolve the dispute.
Murphy was probably the best player I ever saw, and definitely the most complete ar**** ">le.'"
Not sure if you're correct with it being Murphy in that particular game, though what you describe is certainly the way Murphy worked - start a fight then disappear..
Definitely agree with your summing up! To be honest, his attitude to the game makes his appearance in the Hall of Fame an embarrassment as far as I'm concerned.
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I can remember a game from the early 70's when Murphy was player coach with Warrington. He caused a mass brawl to start by the old stand on the speedway track. He tried to get out of the way then but failed as he was grabbed around his throat by Albert Fearnley who was on the coaching staff back then
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