Quote Originally Posted by Prez View Post
Exactly right mate. Teams can play badly and win games. I await Hicks' and the RFL reasons why he did not do what happens on a regular basis, week in and week out in SL and go to the VR. It's too easy to say he's stupid, arrogant, etc, if he is, then he is in every game, yet he goes to the VR every week, so what's the difference in a Cup Final? He's not there to create a spectacle, he's there to enforce fair play. Which he didn't. From the "no try" to the Wire scrum resulting in their try from a Grace "knock on" which didn't happen, to letting Wire encroach on the ten in most sets and upon Coote when he took the conversion. He probably would still've missed, but that's not the point, ENFORCE THE RULES! Disallowing the Wire try was so transparent in its attempt to "level things up" it was laughable.
Spot on.

At what speed was Hicks travelling after he disallowed the Knowles try?, he certainly looked like he would give Usain Bolt a run for his money.