We had 3 penalties in very kickable positions tonight, but chose to run the ball each time and came away with nothing. In those conditions it was pretty obvious points would be hard to come by so why didn't the word go out to kick the penalty goals?

We saw the other week @ Hudds that CS was keen on 2pts bang in front to square it up against Hudds so, I'd assume he calls the shots. I don't recall 3 kickable penalties tho. The one half way thru the first half bang in front - we should've taken the two. I'm sure many thought it and had repeated conversations about it.

Definitely 3 kickable penalties.

I remember 2 ,and thought at the time we should have kicked instead of running the ball.

I'm normally a disciple of taking the two but on two of these occasions tonight we had heavy pressure on the Catalans line and I felt it was the right call.

Obviously I didn't for see that we'd just wang the ball anywhere and then drop it.

Cost us big time not taking the two points on offer on those occasions, huge mistake!

After watching it on sky late last night, it was 2 penalties in front of the sticks, IMO they should be kicked in weather like that.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.Maybe Rovers thought that they had a good chance to score with the pitch conditions,Cats arn`t as used to the crap weather as we are.

Hindsight is great, but I was there bb, and along with many others in the East stand were calling for the penalties to be kicked,
You may be right, Rovers may have thought they'd score due to the conditions but a penalty is 2 points and the ball back.

Can`t argue with that mate,but the players must know if they feel they have a chance to score a try.

Agree with you about the players knowing, just goes to show how dumb they are lol.

I agree there was 3 not 2 that where kickable.
Ive got mixed feelings on this, most games i hate it when teams take the 2 (and i just picture us going like union) but on this occasion i said go for 2 when we had the chances - the conditions where shocking (certainly couldnt tell how bad on sky) and it was never going to be a high scorer.
What confused me was the 2nd kick Galea said go for 2 and Dobson said no- not sure if he felt upto it or what but surely them decisions should be made by sandy and his game plan.

They will have been made by Sandercock, for the pressure that we had I still think they were the right calls, we just didn't execute, irrespective of the weather.

We made some shocking calls, as simple as going left when we should have gone right.

Really quite cross about Friday nights game, even in those conditions, twenty seven errors is unforgivable, you close those games out, and if it's dull, it's dull., but first and foremost you play intelligent rugby.

That's all I want us to do, be a little clever. You'll win more games than you lose by having a game plan that takes into account the opposition, the weather and you're own strengths and weaknesses. By strengths and weaknesses of your own and the oppositions and having a game plan I do not mean that you will win every game, sometimes the other team does their job better, but we play with a distinct lack of intelligence at times. Galea I think is one of the best players I've ever seen in a Rovers shirt, mainly because of his ability to get hold of a game and understand what it takes to but on Friday he just did not manage to reel the team in. We tried to play the football that saw us right at Huddersfield and ultimately shot ourselves in the foot.

I think ANY coach would realise that the conditions would lend themselves to a low scoring and error ridden game, and as such should be telling the captain to kick every reasonable chance of two points.