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Sheffield vs Worthing
Topic Started: Oct 3 2009, 08:14 AM (590 Views)
Hungrecker for 3
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Disappointing result last evening, error strewn game not helped by rank bad officiating.

Turning point for me was before half-time, Ville going to the basket was blatantly tripped and lost possession, with Thunder 2 pts up.... Amazingly the officials did not want to see the trip... The ball went Ryan Patton who shot a buzzer beater, which put them 1 up at the break.

Until that moment, in the main Thunder had 'bossed' the first half, despite Kadiri getting in foul trouble very early on and towards the end of the half Pepe as well.

Felt we didn't come out in the 3rd and we soon found ourselves behind, we started to make quite a few errors (to be fair Sheffiled were also playing much better). The 4th got better, Daniel led by example as always we started to close the lead from 11 down to 6. Then once again, the officials (who had got things consistently wrong all evening), missed a shocking travel by Ryan Patton and then failed to call a personal foul later after Sam was through.

I'm sure these things will even themselves out during the season. A classic 'game of 2 halves' for me.
Sheffield defensively played well, but I feel we'll turn them over during the season.... Ryan Patton sent his regards to all his friends..... Sherrad, by this time, had let him out of his pocket as the game had finished....

Great venue, nice people, vocal crowd. Think Sheffield will be challenging, but this was an opportunity missed....

Interestingly, the officials were off the court and out of the arena before most of the crowd......
Edited by Hungrecker for 3, Oct 3 2009, 11:16 AM.
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retsek
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I agree the officiating was patchy at best, and you could argue that looking at the foul count that no team benefited from it, but 3 early fouls on Richard hurt you a lot. One especially bizarre sequence in the second half saw 2 players lying on the floor (1 from each team) who had been knocked down in separate on the ball instances, then Cook comes up with it in the middle of the mele and is called for a completely innocuous travel, leaving both sets of fans are pointing at their man lying on the ground wondering just what the hell is going on!??!

You've got a deep team with a variety of skill at every position. When Ivan~ comes back Worthing will be a place no team looks forward to travelling to.
Edited by retsek, Oct 4 2009, 08:57 AM.
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Definitely a disappointing result and Rocks tonight will be tough as hell so we might find ourselves at 1-2 which I never thought possible. Sharks sound much improved but so are we. Still, Titmuss won't have enjoyed his first (proper) loss in over a year and a half, so hopefully he'll have the team ready for tonight. It doesn't sound like we did much wrong though.

Unfortunately we can't rely on Janis coming back as we don't know when it will happen, if at all. We have to go with what we've got and tonight is huge because a win will really make up for this result, but a loss will be quite an early blow to our confidence.
Edited by Sam_H, Oct 3 2009, 01:38 PM.
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