"The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom." Danny Blanchflower.
Might have been written by a footballer about football - but never a truer word............
Tell you what though.
Just watched it again.
77th minute that is a very harsh call.
Have to give Catalan that one. Id be furious with that call.
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Players have been pinged all year for falling over after playing the ball. It’s quite simple, as you play the ball, keep your feet. If you can’t, don’t play the ball (and if he hadn’t, Catalans would have probably got a back to 6). It was in keeping with every other decision this year (unlike when the refs decided to clamp down on the player pushing the marker down as part of the play the ball, penalised saints about 4 times and then never thought about it again).
No i get that, and youre right. It has stopped players constantly playing for penalties that way..
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Tomkins knew exactly what he was doing, he was clearly playing for a penalty to have the chance to kick at goal and level it up and take it to golden point. I'm so glad that Moore saw straight through it, if he'd have given a penalty for interference I'd have been absolutely livid! Luckily he saw though, and it was ratboy that ended up livid, his face was an absolute picture
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If you watch the replay he actually gets hold of Batchelors leg and pulls it towards him, and as he plays the ball pushes his head forwards further between Batchelors legs.
Loyal and true, not a glory hunter.
Did Gauche complain about the reffing when Tomkins shoved his finger into Myler's arese ? Or Mcilorum with his high shot then dragging Dywer around ? Or any of the shithousery in the magic weekend? Seems he was OK with all of that.
I posted right after the game I expected SM to be sat down at the start of next year, but I also though Yaya would have got a couple of games. Surely going in with the knees on a defenceless player on the ground is worse tha one punch when two players are scuffling.
Seems Yaya attended the Sam Tomkins school of slide in with the knees, and con the disciplinary. Moore made a few mistakes for both sides but overall I thought he was okay, especially in a game with that intensity, emotion and no replays.
Having watched the game back sober there's a hundred things I want to say but I've slimmed it down to two..... we were better and Gauche is a prick
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If you watch the replay in the first couple of minutes of the game HaHa does almost exactly the same thing against Makinson in what Makinson did to him going for the try line. The commentary called it a brilliant tackle ny HaHa and another player compared to the claim for a penalty try against Makinson.
I think yellow on Makinson just about right. Arguable that the winger was on his way down before Makinson was committed but red would have been harsh. I also would not have awarded a penalty try, Makinson would probably have done enough without the head high.
There were a few decisions that favoured Saints but those 2 weren’t them.
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I think Ganson puts it into perspective about how many decisions a referee has to make in a game getting the majority of them right.
It is interesting to compare the commentary on the Makinson YaYa incident. Sky was objective in its assessment of the action and rightly called a yellow card and importantly no penalty try. On the other hand, BBC commentators Davies and Kear went for the knee jerk reaction and called for a penalty try. They went for controversy rather than common sense. Thankfully the video ref knew better. If Ya-Ya had stayed on his feet Makinson would have made a copybook tackle. There was no malice in what Makinson did
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I agreed with him about the integrity of the referees who operate with as much pressure of the players. Opposition will disagree though because he was a ref from St Helens and any match involving Saints will have bias.
What will be interesting is how the Catalan threat on referee and participitation plays out, it would be a Win Win situation for us. If the threat exists during the play off every team will want to play the Catalan in a semi final because basically its a by due to the final because of the Catalan forfeit. If we also have 3 aussie officials in a final that would suit us because we play similar to a NRL side and it would be officiated with quicker PTB's again suiting us.
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