My incredibly biased thoughts of the game

[pieter blackie]

Hopefully spanner's back next week as well. I don't think Inman has been all that outstanding this year. He's been solid, but has not really given us too much in attacmk or defence. I never really seem to notice him in a game. Can't remember him making any linebrekas either, which is really what you want your centres to be doing.

As much as I think we should be trying to develop him, I would put him on the bench if spanner is back.

Would like to see JO'C at inside as well with our full playing stocks back and Shep in his favoured position of fullback, which will also let him get a bit more involved as well

Yes I agree If Spanner is fit then he is in Inman on the Bench and Bart out of the 22

[beige]

we deserved to win. we played much better but clearly the reffing was rigged.

You have got to be kidding.

[farva]

Force got beaten by a better team. The ref didnt make a difference. Hell, the ref could have been biased the Force way and the Blues still would have won.
But a good rant is very therapeutical.

[jombi]

Force got beaten by a better team. The ref didnt make a difference. Hell, the ref could have been biased the Force way and the Blues still would have won.
But a good rant is very therapeutical.

3 tries came from blatant forward passes.

As I said before, to say the blues won is fair enough, but to win by as much as they did? No!

[James]

We lost because they played better than us. Forget about the ref- he may have influenced the margin but you can't blame him for the loss.

The only one thing that he did that really pissed me off what the penalty he gave against us at the scrum when he mistimed the call on the touch and the scrum collapsed. He screwed up and it should've been reset.

[Ecky]

It was a penalty try, he was offside and ran between the ball and the receiver. You can't get more of a penalty try! If it wasn't the 80th minute it would've been a yellow aswell.

...actually, if a penalty try is awarded, it must be followed by a yellow card for the offender. If the ref didn't bin him then he has erred.

.....and no, I didn't catch the game yet. I will try to see it on replay some time.

[GIGS20]

We lost because they played better than us. Forget about the ref- he may have influenced the margin but you can't blame him for the loss.

The only one thing that he did that really pissed me off what the penalty he gave against us at the scrum when he mistimed the call on the touch and the scrum collapsed. He screwed up and it should've been reset.

was that the first one of Dunning's, because when I saw it on replay the Blues prop hadn't moved at all, when Dunning went, there was nothing there, and since he was so comprehensively beaten to the hit the blues just went backward, Dunning fell over because he ran out of height and then got penalised for going straight down

I was annoyed at that one. It was the same scrum where Dunning touched early (as he REFUSES to stop doing) and the ref put the whistle to his mouth (Seemingly itching to penalise the guy who had walked on to the pitch 15 seconds before)

[jargan83]

Yeah lets blame the Referee. It's just easier that way

I blame the Ref for Force contniuosly dropping the ball

I blame the Ref for the Force missing tackles

[brokendown gunfighter]

we played crap
end of story

[jono]

as long as we beat the crusaders!

[jargan83]

we played crap
end of story

Thought you'd gone MIA

[Darren]

The ref did a better job than we did tonight

[Hoolly Doolly]

I dont blame the ref.

Frustrations
- Oyoungs fluffing about at times. If sheehan isnt back then turner deserves a start.
- midfield defense. Frustrating watching the blues bounce off our tackles. At times we just kicked the ball away and allowed the blues backs to counter attack from deep with ball in hand.....not a good idea. They even counter attacked under pressure inside their own 22.
- predictable attack. how bout bending the defensive line now and then, straightening up or the odd short ball and reversing the direction. So many times in open play the runners/receivers were all running the same angle. way too easy to defend. We even kicked the ball away even without much pressure as opposed to the blues and even the reds and bulls tonight.


Forces Best imo was JOC

For next week im hoping spannners and Sheehan are back but would like to see the team like the following. I think we missed Peks defense and work rate off the ball tonight. Not sure if putting Sheps under pressure at fullback is wise but we need JOC footwark and ballskills inside. Spanners at 13 cos amongst our squad his skills and abilities suit the role more then anybody else.......if we werent so short on wingers id give cullet a run now and then at outside centre.


1 Cowen
2 Whittiker
3 Fairbrother
4 Sharpe
5 Hockings
6 Hodgson
7 Pocock
8 Brown
9 Turner
10 Hill
11 Cullet
12 JOC
13 Spanners
14 Cross
15 Shepherd

Henderson
Charles
Wykes
Mcalman
Sheehan
Inman
Barty

[zimeric]

for the Dunning knockers he officially was pulled due to injury.
according to the RugbyWA press release:
69th min: Henderson replaces Dunning (ankle injury).

although its possible it was staged in order for him to come off.

[robyn <3]

I didn't think the ref was up to much, but he wasn't nearly as shocking as the force. I was upset by all of them, yes, but I thought Sharpie was a huge let down. Maybe his fabulous season so far has made me raise the bar exceptionally high, but I thought he had a considerably rough game.

Turner again brought a nice little attacking spark. Bart shouldn't have made it through the first half without being subbed.