Who are you on about Handley or Bailey mate? Because there is no way Handley only missed one tackle, I counted at least 5.

Bailey. Handley's down as missing 6 and even from the highlights you can see he had a mare. Not sure you could say same about Bailey unless watching with an agenda.

Calm down izzy. Bailey made 32 tackles and 13 carries so obviously put in some decent work. However if you care to read my comment and then view the VT you will see that he looked to have run out of gas as he never even tried to get into a position to make a tackle or even a missed one on two occasions when they scored. As I said my comments were made only on seeing the VT and hearing Mac's comments.



My comment regarding Handley was valid too as although he made 26 tackles he also missed 7 (not 6)



Without seeing the game we have no idea whether it was missed tackles that cost us. I suspect it was lazy play which meant no tackle at all. (see my above bailey comment)

We all have access to the store of stats. It is how you interpret them that counts. Assuming you read them correctly. Handley made 7 missed tackles not 6!

I have watched the highlights. The TJ puts the flag up the second Watkins steps in touch!

I care. I'd take the highest spot possible over the cup any day.

Correct. It was right in front of me. Watkins was clearly in touch and the TJ flagged it straight away.

Seriously? So you'd take third instead of fourth over a win next Saturday?

The point im making is that if we dont rest players against Bradford and London we are top right now and are in pole position for a home game in the first week of the playoffs. As it is, we now are just as likely to finish 6th (yes, I know thats a home game too) as we are 2nd.



And anyway, yes, I don't care much for the Cup as it is. I didn't even watch the last cup final we were in.

Maybe so - but the Cup semi and Final are clearly more important games than fixtures against Bradford and London. You might not care about winning the Cup, but the players and club clearly do. And for what it's worth, I think this is the year they finally will do it too. All worth it then, even if they don't manage a top two finish. It's so tight in the race for the GF this year anyway, I'm not sure finishing position means very much at all.



In any case - resting players was not the reason the game was lost yesterday. It was the inability of the team selected to get the job done when in a winning position.

You genuinely care more about the game yesterday than the final next week?

At least next year resting people at this stage will not be an option as it's a top 4 playoff. The cup needs to go back to May though. It's cheapened the finish to the season even more than usual this time.