Mon 27th Jun: Ch: Barrow Raiders v Halifax Panthers KO 19:45 (Premier Sports)

[The Blues Ox]

Ref pulls the high tackle straight away we still have 13 on.

[Simon Hall]

2 minutes ago, The Blues Ox said:

Head in to his head and we end up with 2 players off. What a joke.

Fully justified sendings off those. 

[tec]

3 minutes ago, The Blues Ox said:

Head in to his head and we end up with 2 players off. What a joke.

Nothing in it, over reaction by Fax players both will get long bans as well.

[daz39]

God knows why Miloudi got a yellow as he didn't appear to do anything wrong, the 2 fax players could be looking at a few games for that!.

[The Blues Ox]

Moludi is soft as and his tackling technique is pathetic it’s his first shot to the head when he dropped off that should have been called.

[The Blues Ox]

Get in. Not over yet though.

[The Blues Ox]

Must add that I love that grub Miloudi got absolutely battered by Worthy.

[The Blues Ox]

Spawny try. Didn’t deserve that.

[ShropshireBull]

Missing a tasty one by the sounds of it.  Come on Fax!

[mickmike wilson]

Doffs cap to Fax, Fully deserved & strange game this as either fax have nullified us very well or we just aren’t at the races & naive at best.

 

1 try back for us but surely Fax will slow this right down now 

[mickmike wilson]

MOTM for Barrow…..The food 15/10

[Colin James]

Surprised to see people saying Miloudi did nothing wrong. He's got his arm round Worthington's head trying to pull him down in a very dangerous manner, then tries to stick the nut on him too. He should have had a red card and can probably expect a ban from the disciplinary for it. Worthington got what you get for retaliating these days but I don't blame him.

[mickmike wilson]

Our tackling tonight is woeful chest high repeatedly & they are running through at will, crazy night

[Bearman]

Best team won. END OF

[mickmike wilson]

2 minutes ago, Colin James said:

Surprised to see people saying Miloudi did nothing wrong. He's got his arm round Worthington's head trying to pull him down in a very dangerous manner, then tries to stick the nut on him too. He should have had a red card and can probably expect a ban from the disciplinary for it. Worthington got what you get for retaliating these days but I don't blame him.

He didn’t try to nut him at all, take another look.

[RSN]

4 minutes ago, mickmike wilson said:

Doffs cap to Fax, Fully deserved & strange game this as either fax have nullified us very well or we just aren’t at the races & naive at best.

 

1 try back for us but surely Fax will slow this right down now 

Naive is definitely the word. 

The top sides stick to their game plan and grind when they need too. As soon as it gets tough we go completely away from any game plan and collapse. Happened against Fev, Batley and Halifax twice now. 

It will improve as we get more championship games under our belt, this is still an inexperienced side at this level. I think we have enough ability to beat the sides below us but I can't see us beating the top 5.

[Leyther_Matt]

Are we sure it’s Barrow with the two man advantage? Mad how this has panned out

[Johnny Ringo]

Barrow looked out of sorts tonight  but Halifax very strong and looking like real top 2 or 3 contenders. 

[daz39]

Fair play to Fax, that was a good performance, especially when down to 11, it seemed to galvanise them more than Barra.

[ShropshireBull]

Fax in playoffs now and points difference between us and Barrow gone (until we get pumped by Leigh)

Need to beat Newcastle and London to set up a massive game on the 24th July. 

 

[Anonymouse]

50 minutes ago, The Blues Ox said:

Disgraceful reffing.

Are you serious fella? both straight reds, he landed 4 punches to the face and head, Miloudi was dazed and trying to drag an injured player up is a straight red. Fax were the better team and stronger team. Just own up to the big bans ahead, they are justified.

[Rockingchair]

Didn’t understand the vote pre game but hey ho that’s opinion. Worthington showing his bodyguard qualifications by dispatching miloudi with ease .

[GUBRATS]

Top 5 set now 

[Jughead]

1 hour ago, The Blues Ox said:

Must add that I love that grub Miloudi got absolutely battered by Worthy.

What a thoroughly vile thing to say. 

[The Blues Ox]

24 minutes ago, Anonymouse said:

Are you serious fella? both straight reds, he landed 4 punches to the face and head, Miloudi was dazed and trying to drag an injured player up is a straight red. Fax were the better team and stronger team. Just own up to the big bans ahead, they are justified.

Ive watched the incident numerous times now and not changed my view. The ref had not even given a penalty until Worthington threw a punch. Maloudi hits Worthington round the head with his first attempt. Should have meant the whistle going before he had the chance to have another go, he then gets him in an illegal hold around his head which is a crusher type hold(Ironically I gave a coaching session just before this game where I talked about being careful about putting people in illegal holds) but he also separates his head away from Worthington and then goes back in which although its not really malicious its still a headbutt. Ive no problem with the Worthington red card, the Gwaze one is soft because Miloudi milked it but I stick to what I said originally that the ref calls the first head high tackle which was awful technique then we don't lose 2 players for the next 5+ games. Then the worse thing is we got the penalty which made out like they saw the high tackle, watch the actions of the touch judge and ref, they were not giving it till the punch.

 

On the game itself, Ive said before I think this is the best Fax team since 2010 and its just a shame we lost the Widnes gain in watersplash conditions because once the dry grounds have come we play some beatiful rugby league. A quality performance and a game i think we could have easily lost if we turned up with the wrong attitude because Barrow are not a bad side.