SuffolkTiger wrote:TheSheriff wrote:I genuinely can't believe some of the reactions of some people on here, you'd think Cas had lost every game this year!
Cas have lost 2 games - one in awful conditions against the team 2nd in the table and a game where they haven't played that badly in a year.
In both cases the difference was still only a wrong forward pass call and a missed knock on.
Think about that - in 2 games where Cas were 2nd best and not at the races, they still could have won them and sit there unbeaten.
It's not a time for common sense and level headed, fact based thinking....!!!
You are bang on right though.... Great post.
The reaction is to the way we are losing close games - twice we have lost them, justifying the loses by saying we lost to a forward pass or a missed knock on, is exactly the same as saying... we would of won the game if Cook hadnt messed up the kick off or given the penalty that cost us the second try, or Hardaker knocking on that cost us a try
What is being discussed is not that we lost narrowly but the amount of unnecessary pressure we put on ourselves in games that are tight... and how in these games our errors have cost us, we were completely dominating the game today until Cook's error, that cost us the first try, Cooks penalty on the following kick off cost us the second try.
I would offer that had those error on error s not been made despite not being at our best we would have gone on to win.
The momentum of the game changed at that point significantly.
I am upset with the manner of our loss because we have shown in close games that we are coming up short and I think the issue is within our own hands to rectify, losing to a missed knock on or a forward pass is not in our hands thats someone elses responsibility.
i like everyone else am delighted with what we have been doing this season however I would like to think that we can debate the areas of our game which twice now have IMO cost us the two close games we have had this season.