MID WEEK RUGBY NEWS

Wednesday 1st May 2013

Now that the dust has begun to settle at Moss Lane after the extraordinary events last Saturday, Liverpool St Helens will spend the summer preparing for another season in North One West.


LSH suffered their second play-off defeat in two years, this time against Morley, in heartbreaking fashion, when the Yorkshire side ran in three tries in the thirteen minutes added on by the officials.


Credit must go to Morley who took full advantage of the astonishing events that unfolded after eighty minutes had elapsed and with LSH leading 17-11. What happened next will always be difficult for the Moss lane Faithful to understand but of course it has to be accepted. Many are still wondering where the officials managed to find so many minutes in the first instance but the main source of injustice surrounds the second try in additional time, the one that put Morley in front. An obvious but accidental intervention by the referee clearly prevented LSH flanker Jamie Clare from making a tackle on the scorer of the try, but the score was allowed to stand. On such fine judgements, eight months of rugby is decided.


LSH Director of Rugby Martin Jones was clearly disappointed at the outcome. “I’m speechless at what happened” he said “but we have to move on. The lads have given us a wonderful season and I’m proud of them all. People say that decisions even themselves out over the course of a season. I’m already looking forward to our share next Autumn”.  


John Williams