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Dan Korn said:
They definitely outplayed us. DeRanged is one of the best jammers I've ever seen.
And injuries really hurt us, especially to Beth and Ska Face. It seemed like half the WCR roster was different from the last bout against Boston.
But at the risk of sounding like a sore loser, I have to come back to the officiating. I would have thought we would have had some kind of homer advantage, but the refs seemed much more confused by RM's "slow game" tactics than the WCR players did. They spent most of the time waving their arms signaling that they wanted the pack to come together, but they almost never called penalties for destroying the pack, even when the RM players completely stopped or skated backwards. They also hardly ever called hitting outside the engagement zone. Instead, when their blockers would hit our jammers outside the zone, we would get major penalties for cutting the track. Really? Our jammers have to get recycled after they're hit illegally?
It seems like our officials don't know how to call this type of bout because they don't really see it during the WCR home season. Our teams actually try to skate and don't engage in this "slow game" nonsense. One wonders if the fans in Denver enjoy watching a bunch of women refusing to skate. They probably also enjoy pursuit bicycle races where the riders both try to go as slowly as possible, and soccer games where the best strategy is the offside trap. These kinds of tactics may work, but they're about as exciting as watching paint dry. It's not the kind of thing that makes me want to come back; not because we lost, but because it's negative and boring and frustrating. Call the fouls for this junk so we can see some skating, refs!
# August 24th, 2010 at 7:41 pm

AGGIE said:
You can't win them all but , you girls kept going and never quit.
leaving it all out their is all one can ask for. Love you all .
# August 27th, 2010 at 1:21 am

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