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  1. Haven't seen any footage of the game but once again (as seems to be the case every season) lack of discipline appears to be a factor.
  2. It is in full operation 24 hours seven days a week all year round.
  3. Would think some will turn up today not realising it was a Saturday game. As regards the game itself I thought we lacked leadership. I am not sure who the captain was but nobody seemed to be getting everyone together during breaks in play after tries etc.
  4. Was the big lump for Hornets with O'Hanlon on his shirt in fact Brad Brennean?
  5. I can remember the applause on several occasions when Sammut surprised everyone with a short kick and we re-gained control of the ball, it doesn't always come off but that's the risk you take.
  6. The highlights reel for Ramon Silva shows he has the ability to off-load. PLEASE let us encourage it and not look at safer options.
  7. Reading the obituary of David Watkins this morning - in 1972 he came off the bench for Salford against Barrow and scored the fastest hat-trick of tries ever recorded and the fact is apparently in the Guiness Book of Records - oh well at least Barrow gets a mention. I recall having a coffee with Denis Jackson on a Saturday morning and informing him that David had been in Barrow on the previous evening for a sportsman dinner. Denis was upset he didn't know about. He explained that he wanted to see Watkins and tell him just how great a player he was as when he played against him he tried to intimidate him. He could remember walking out onto the pitch at Craven Park glowering at Watkins and kissing his biceps and mouthing something "appropriate" His words were something like, " I couldn't compete with him so I had to try and put him off his game, but it didn't work, he was a magnificent player." He was genuinely upset he hadn't had the chance to put the record straight.
  8. Ryan Johnson has got better as the year got on. His drop goal at Whitehaven off-set the cheap penalty he gave away in the last few minutes against Haven at Barrow costing us points. He seemed to mature when Sammut wasn't available. Gillam had a stand out season as did Emslie. Danny Langtree put in a superb shift week in - week out.. The team seemed to suffer whenever Josh Woods was substituted. He is certainly one of the players of the season. Ryan Shaw's kicking has him up there as well.
  9. I agree, it is between the player and the club. However, hopefully the accounts will indicate how much in total was spent on players wages with coaching and others shown separately. The fans are constantly asked to support various initiatives to fund players so it is only right to give some feedback via the accounts of what money is going where.
  10. Sammut gets a lot of stick on this forum - yesterday I thought he was an excellent team player. His defence was good and at every break in play he was talking to the other players and urging them on. It could well be that his presence concemtrates the minds of the opposition and gives Johnson abit more time.
  11. I see in one of the forums above former rugby league/player pundit is calling for the Cumbrian clubs to merge. Will someone please explain to these "experts" how far apart the clubs are - connected by indifferent roads with no dual carriageway on most of the road let alone motorway on the west coast which is where rugby league is played. Perhaps they could send some over on a bad weather day and get them to travel up to Haven and Town and let us know if they would do that journey regularly. In any case Barrow Raiders are now in Westmorland and Furness.
  12. Has anyone seen/heard what led to the outburst from Sammut? It seems out of character to me.
  13. Thought the first half defensive effort won it for us. Langtree was my M.O.M. Has the penny dropped - the discipline has improved immensely with the penalty count making much better reading.
  14. I agree that we seem to fade when the interchanges are made - especially when Woods goes off. Our game management is poor at times. For the life of me I cannot think why Jarrod Sammut went for the drop goal. If he had got it we would have been more than a penalty in front but on the other hand if it had been successful they would have been kicking off into our half with all the dangers that brings. We'd have a been far better kicking into the corner and making them go the length of the field. Possibly a lot of it is to do with confidence and scraping a win might give them a boost.
  15. Ritson would struggle to get a pass the way the present team are playing and Miloudi was missing for much of the year. Forster is, in my view, the biggest loss as he seemed to set the standards and tone. We have gone back to giving away amateur penalties (e.g. as cost us the points against Whitehaven). Last season we had a professional attitude, that is lacking this year with too many penalties, daft mistakes and missed tackles. Yes there is time for the season to be pulled round but just carrying on the same way is not going to achieve it.
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