[John_D]

Hudds (a, again) - Uptown Top Rankin : Wed Jun 13, 2018 11:15 am  

Here we go again:

Mead, Williame, Langi, Casty, Moa, Anderson, Garcia, Bird, Bousquet, Simon, Duport, Baitieri, McIlorum, Tierney, Jullien, Gigot, Goudemand, Drinkwater, Edwards.


Anyone know what's happened to Albert?

[John_D]

Re: Hudds (a, again) - Uptown Top Rankin : Wed Jun 13, 2018 11:37 am  

Hudds still without Brough, which these days is a positive for them as Ollie Russell looks quite the player.

McGillvary, Cudjoe, Turner, Murphy, Gaskell, Ikahihifo, Leeming, Lawrence, Hinchcliffe, Ferguson, Rankin, Roberts, Smith, O'Brien, Mellor, McIntosh, S Wood, English, Russell.

Anyone going? I will be there in a professional capacity.

Re: Hudds (a, again) - Uptown Top Rankin : Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:55 pm  

I shall be there and will enjoy the free ticket. Looks like Duport is starting unless they play Edwards at centre. I would have preferred Thornley .
Albert played well in the French Cup last weekend . I fear that he is not as good as some,including me, thought he would be and his replacement by Drinkwater has worked wonders.

Re: Hudds (a, again) - Uptown Top Rankin : Fri Jun 15, 2018 2:19 pm  

Bet langi will start at centre

Re: Hudds (a, again) - Uptown Top Rankin : Sat Jun 16, 2018 1:22 pm  

I have just got home and will look at the key moments again before posting. These are 1 why was Duport out of position for one of their tries 2 Who through the idiotic pass to their right wing 3 why did they get that late penalty 4 why was our very late "try" disallowed ? Having said that my overwhelming feeling last night was that this was the worst result that I have seen from us-worse even than the loss to Wakefield at Newcastle in ,I think ,2016 and it was very hard to take

Re: Hudds (a, again) - Uptown Top Rankin : Sat Jun 16, 2018 1:41 pm  

Okay q1 I don't know q2 drinkwater q3 I don't know Q4 I don't know. What I do know is that we should not have lost this match. I think Langi must come back to the halves and Bird must play in the forwards . I think we shall be in the middle eights

Re: Hudds (a, again) - Uptown Top Rankin : Sat Jun 16, 2018 2:58 pm  

you gave away far too many pens in the second half , allowed us back into it... no team should come back from 18-0 and 24-6 down but credit to us for doing so

think the last min no try was for a knock on...though have read offside too..maybe both!

Re: Hudds (a, again) - Uptown Top Rankin : Sun Jun 17, 2018 8:34 am  

Ref said Knock on . The question is whether he was right. The other question was whether he was tricked into giving the crucial penalty. When Mcilorum and Casty are both missing -as in the first 20 minutes of the second half-we lose control .Duport is still a total liability.He has the slowest reactions of any back in superleague and cannot run more than 20 metres at his excruciatingly slow full speed . What has happened to him ? 6 years ago he was very fast.If Yaha is still suspended we must send for Thornley.All in all this is a vital defeat and our remaining fixtures are too difficult for us to escape our fate .

Re: Hudds (a, again) - Uptown Top Rankin : Sun Jun 17, 2018 9:21 am  

it didnt look a clear try to me

anyway it swings in round abouts.... you got the calls when we last played you in the cup believe me!! the ref gave them us this time...how it goes, we havent had much luck with the refs this season

Re: Hudds (a, again) - Uptown Top Rankin : Sun Jun 17, 2018 12:06 pm  

At the game the first disallowed try was definitely offside I did notice that at the time, a Catalans player touched the ball which went forward on to the player who touched it down. The second one from Bird (knock-on) was his own fault he was pushing forward after the ref called held and lost the ball when playing it.
And Bird should be in front of the disciplinary for his antics when Huddersfield were taking their penalty. He was jumping about like a puppet on a string waving his hands and dancing side to side, the ref should have sent him off.