Barrow away

[The King Of Leon]

Did anyone go ? If so can you give opinion please, seems we did far better than expected without Normy, Reed and Sanderson and led for nearly all the game.

[pudsey hawk]

Great effort from us unlucky not to win. Red card swung it their way. Not enough down wings but got best try of match through Ansell.Plenty of positives and Gary hopefully will be backed in what he wants to do.

 

[renfrew refugee]

Your indiscipline cost you the game, head shot penalty, next play the ball Hesketh Head shot, brawl and warranted sending off ,you should have won, that was Barrow's worst performance of the season. Why did Flanagan get involved when Barrow scored? again sin binned warranted. Play like that and you should win more games than you loose, just cut out the indiscipline. Best of luck for the rest of the season.

[Josh T]

A Great performance. A game we could have had. For me, Our own failure to deal with 2, near identical high balls directly from the kickoff, Barrow scored., 2, soft converted Trys.... Saying that, Barrow had The Bright Sun and 1st half breeze, am guessing they won the toss.... Great to see us taking the 2 points from penaltys.....  A Brilliant Full team effort. Just the 2, Unlucky tries., conceded from, Soft, kickoffs. Being the difference..... Fair result....... 

[The Colonel 56]

Played well..... Yes Hunslet could have & should have won.... ....Cannot understand why a captain behaves in such a manner????? Don't think the team miss Normanton........On the whole great performance

[Hawkwindbag]

Yes it was a good performance, in the first half especially, the highlight begin an amazing intercept from Gibson dummying, fending and side-stepping over 90 metres then giving Ansell a walk in under the sticks. BUT for the fifth time in ALL FIVE league defeats, we come away saying it was a game we could/should have won. Count 'em ...

- 2 April, after 70 mins - Doncaster 24 Hunslet 24 (lost 29-24)
- 14 April, after 65 mins - Keighley 12 Hunslet 12 (lost 20-12)
- 30 April, after 70 mins - Hunslet 18 Whitehaven 18 (lost 18-19)
- 14 May, after 75 mins - Oxford 20 Hunslet 22 (lost 24-22)
- 3 June, after 70 mins - Barrow 20 Hunslet 20 (lost 28-20)

And I don't think it's a fitness thing - more a mental thing and lack of game management. But whatever, it has now cost us several places in the league ladder. And you can add (in-)discipline into the mix for this one too, Hesketh's reckless challenge getting the red card he deserved, and finishing the game with 11 men with Flanagan sinbinned for arguing on Barrow's final try.

So the closing stages are what Thornton needs to address as priority. Thought the shape and balance of the team looked much better already on Saturday, Watson looked happier in his old role coming into the line at pace from full back, and Gibson back in the team saw the ball moving quicker and with much more purpose. Hopefully a sign off better things to come for the rest of the season then ... 

[The Colonel 56]

8 hours ago, Hawkwindbag said:

Yes it was a good performance, in the first half especially, the highlight begin an amazing intercept from Gibson dummying, fending and side-stepping over 90 metres then giving Ansell a walk in under the sticks. BUT for the fifth time in ALL FIVE league defeats, we come away saying it was a game we could/should have won. Count 'em ...

- 2 April, after 70 mins - Doncaster 24 Hunslet 24 (lost 29-24)
- 14 April, after 65 mins - Keighley 12 Hunslet 12 (lost 20-12)
- 30 April, after 70 mins - Hunslet 18 Whitehaven 18 (lost 18-19)
- 14 May, after 75 mins - Oxford 20 Hunslet 22 (lost 24-22)
- 3 June, after 70 mins - Barrow 20 Hunslet 20 (lost 28-20)

And I don't think it's a fitness thing - more a mental thing and lack of game management. But whatever, it has now cost us several places in the league ladder. And you can add (in-)discipline into the mix for this one too, Hesketh's reckless challenge getting the red card he deserved, and finishing the game with 11 men with Flanagan sinbinned for arguing on Barrow's final try.

So the closing stages are what Thornton needs to address as priority. Thought the shape and balance of the team looked much better already on Saturday, Watson looked happier in his old role coming into the line at pace from full back, and Gibson back in the team saw the ball moving quicker and with much more purpose. Hopefully a sign off better things to come for the rest of the season then ... 

Absolutely spot on Hawkwindbag, majority of  the lads look happier and I believe Gary will be the difference (hopefully)...