York City Knights 28 Barrow 50
Knights: Dent 7, Foggin-Johnston 8, Morrison 7, Haynes 8, Saxton 7, Harris 8, H Tyson-Wilson 8, Moran 8, Ellis 8, Siddons 8, Hey 7, Porter 8, Spears 8. Subs (all used): Carter 7, B Tyson-Wilson 8, Dixon 8, Clavering 8.
Tries: Foggin-Johnston 11; Morrison 24; Porter 32; Haynes 41, 50.
Conversions: H Tyson-Wilson 11, 24, 32, 41.
Sin-binned: H Tyson-Wilson 72.
Barrow: Fieldhouse, S Toal, Hulme, Litherland, Cresswell, Charnock, Marwood, Bullock, Mossop, Wilkes, D Toal, Stack, Aspinwall. Subs (all used): Abram, Walker, Duerden, Brennan.
Tries: Hulme 3; S Toal 15; D Toal 17, 65; Cresswell 28, 56, 67, 74; Mossop 78; Walker 80.
Conversions: Charnock 3, 17, 56, 65, 78.
Man of the match: Chris Siddons – doing 70 minutes against this Barrow pack, holding his own throughout, is no mean feat.
Referee: John McMullen (Wigan) – he let the first half flow but then came up with several bizarre decisions that pretty much cost York the game, ruined a cracking encounter and left fans feeling robbed.
Penalty count: 1-7
Half-time: 18-20
Weather: very pleasant.
Attendance: 904
Moment of the match: York’s first try was a beauty. They spread the ball left where Harry Tyson-Wilson chipped perfectly for Dee Foggin-Johnston racing up the wing to take on the full and sprint home.
Gaffe of the match: take your pick from a plethora of second-half refereeing decisions that turned a cracking contest Barrow’s way - though surely none were worse than that to disallow a perfectly legitimate James Haynes hat-trick try. Even Raiders boss Paul Crarey said it was a blooper.
Gamebreaker: referee John McMullen’s decision to rule out James Haynes’ third try before allowing two dubious Barrow touchdowns to stand and then sin-binning Harry Tyson-Wilson for the remainder of the match. York should have been eight points up with 16 minutes to go but instead the Raiders were in the clear.
Match rating: a wonderful cup tie could have gone either way, York forging what could have been an all-important two-score advantage had that try not been wrongly ruled out, but it was all ruined by hapless officialdom.
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