Roadhouse blue Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Abysmal to awesome . Duffy saw the change needed at half back and Berrehal came up with the goods. Great effort from Atkin . Rob Lever the granite needed in the middle was superb . Thought Marshall was best of the rest . Proud day to be a Lion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark richardson Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Atkin played brilliantly Agree with your summary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryce Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 What a wonderful game of rugby. I think Sky will be kicking themselves having put our game on the red button and then that absolute shocker of a finale live on TV. Matty MOM for changing the game. A wonderful individual try and then a composed DG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIGGY Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 And Matty set up the try for Rhodri as well as taking the short kick off at the end. The players want to thank all the fans for their fantastic support. Riggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Monkey Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 The players want to thank all the fans for their fantastic support. Players, don't mention it, it's a pleasure to get behind a team of 100% triers who thoroughly work their socks off for each other and come up with the goods. Well done lads, take a bow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne_r Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 Sadly I could not get to Blackpool, so did not see the match. Reading the Oldham forum page lots of controversy about a disallowed conversion for Oldham's last try which would have put the score at 24-26 ( to Oldham). Lots of criticism for Mr Turley - I seem to think every time he has refereed matches for us he has never failed to displease us with his decisions...........hopefully the match will be on Lions TV soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moorside roughyed Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 I'm a roughyed and yes Palfreys conversion did go over.The officials didn't have the best of days.BUT how we relinquished a 20 point lead is beyond me.Hate to say it but congrats on the win.I think we might have got what we deserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roughyeds Wispa Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 Atkin changed the game for you well played but we will get our revenge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
class of 63 Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 What a brilliant comeback - first half just didn't turn up - totally differrenet performance second half and the game could have gone either way at the end - but for a team to overturn a 20-0 half time deficit they deserve the win. Obviously in such a close game always going to be points of controversy - obstructions/groundings and then finally 'the conversion' - from the Swinton end you couldn't guess but having looked at it a few times on my sky recording it could have gone either way - could all the officials have got it wrong (ha ha maybe) - naturally the oldham fans/coach and kicker are going to think otherwise but as we Swinton fans know only too well these things happen in all games. Great 2 points for us and a long way to go yet but I do think both Oldham and ourselves will stay up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin James Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 It went wide. When the game is up on LionsTV (hopefully Wednesday) you will see. I haven't seen any of the Sky footage but our angle is right behind Palfrey and it looks wide from that angle. In fact having seen our footage I'm surprised there's so much debate. Did Sky only have cameras on the far side? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Monkey Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 What I find hard to understand is how on earth can BOTH touch judges (and the ref too?) fail in their apparent professional duty to misjudge a conversion kick (or penalty attempt)? Occasionally (rarely) they disagree, but BOTH of them (standing behind the posts in exactly the right place facing the kicker) surely can't be wrong, can they? If it was ever proved in a match that this two-man clanger happened, then serious questions need to be asked and suspensions (of officials) put in place. It sometimes occurs that a referee gets it wrong when a drop goal is attempted during heated action by an attacking side even though an attempt is expected, but BOTH TJs at a place kick?, seems highly unlikely I have to say. We can all laugh of course, but don't you all think it's just a tad ironic that match officials currently (?) have (or did have) their kit sponsored by "Specsavers"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
class of 63 Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 It went wide. When the game is up on LionsTV (hopefully Wednesday) you will see. I haven't seen any of the Sky footage but our angle is right behind Palfrey and it looks wide from that angle. In fact having seen our footage I'm surprised there's so much debate. Did Sky only have cameras on the far side? Yes Colin - the Sky camera was behind the touch judges and the ball seemed to be drifting away at the time it sailed over the post - of course on what influenced the tv coverage was the forthright options of the commentators and after all is said and done the people in the best position are the touch judges - anyhow it wouldn't have altered the result we would have simply scored another try instead of taking the drop goal ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackflash Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 Bad first half!! Brilliant second half, a couple of try savers from fell and Marshall. Beharrell great kicking, quick and sharp. Lever tackled his socks off as usual. I'm also sticking with the conversion not going over for Oldham,there was two linesman and a ref on the pitch... Camera angles are such a pain when not positioned right, but who cares it's over and we won coming back from 20-0 down at half time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Art of Hand and Foot Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Both games so far have been odd, at sale you shot ahead and we came back in the second half, but we were unable to take full advantage, at blackpool we shot ahead and capitulated in the second half. Wonder if we'll have a game thats close in both halves? We've got 2 more games against each other before the seasons finished. I'm sure we can gain revenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antisuperleague Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Congratulations to the Lions you wanted it more than us in that second half. Sadly, the debate will go on about the poor officials until we meet again at our place. I would also like to praise a great set of lads who I was having a banter with on the way out - that's what is great about our game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve wild Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 I'm a roughyed and yes Palfreys conversion did go over.The officials didn't have the best of days.BUT how we relinquished a 20 point lead is beyond me.Hate to say it but congrats on the win.I think we might have got what we deserved. No it didn't go over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Art of Hand and Foot Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 No it didn't go over whether it did or not is irrelevant. It's what the officials say that counts. No doubt there will be split decisions in the future for you as well as us. That's life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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