I'm actually a bit bothered whether our cards will get a fair hearing or not ... due to public bias that we're treated specially. Don't get me wrong I can understand the yellows but thought the red a bit strong.
I'm actually a bit bothered whether our cards will get a fair hearing or not ... due to public bias that we're treated specially. Don't get me wrong I can understand the yellows but thought the red a bit strong.
I think we are too honest for our own good sometimes.
If Lees stays on the floor and the physio comes on after the Walters challenge, then we are pretty much certain to get the penalty, and Walters a yellow card. Likewise with the 8 point try, if Percival had stayed on the floor then it gets given.
So rather than Wello coaching them how to get away with shoulder charges, perhaps he should be coaching them to pretend to be injured.
Fair enough if that's the rule then. Seems a weird place to draw the line though, like if he just touched it down with no control then it's a try, but as he's touched it and then touched it down again it's not a try. Not sure why they have to overcomplicate stuff with this nonsense all the time. Should either be you need to have control when you ground the ball or you don't.
Should we bring in a captain's challenge type system ? Both yellows came down to players mithering the ref and basically forcing him to have a look. We could also of used it for the shoulder charge incident and maybe we wouldn't of had players running in ? I thought it worked well in the games we had in Oz.
Shouldn’t have needed a captains challenge, the games stopped the video ref had ample time to review it, but didn’t. I’m not a fan of players staying down to game the system to get a favourable decision, but if Lees had done that we would most likely have got the decision in our favour. Potentially next time we play Leeds, who seem very keen to do it, we play them at their own game.
With you on that one,we need to stamp it out. I was just thinking though if only the captain can go the the ref and use a challenge it might stop the play acting and also stop other players running up to the ref and trying to get things looked at. It's am issue that needs sorting.
I didn't think either Mata'utia's or Sironen's were worthy of a sinbin. Sironen especially is sliding in defence and Myler steps into the line and stops. Sironen can't just stop instantly so has no choice but to run into Myler from the side, body to body - and the impact is within a second of Myler releasing the ball.
I fully agree with hitting players hard with punishment when they could pull out of a tackle when the ball's been passed or kicked and don't. But both those incidents were a split second after the ball is passed. Ye canae change the laws of physics. Are players supposed now to not commit to tackles in case the attacker passes a split second before contact?
It's farcical. But I bet there's scores of later impacts that go totally unpunished through the season (I'm tempted to find one or two from Leeds in that game to demonstrate the double-standards of the reffing)
Myler is a cheating little turd. I don't know if Smith is coaching them to play-act to win penalties or if it's just Myler, Sezer & Austin taking it on themselves.
Leeds have become such a horrible, scummy team.
Also, about the Walters/Welsby incident, you can hear Kendall on the Sky commentary say to Lomax "we don't think it was a shoulder charge".
WTF? Fair enough miss it in the heat of the moment (although enough fans spotted it instantly). But you've got replays to look at (the same replays that led to you sinbinning our two) and you still don't think it a shoulder? Jesus wept.
Finally, no defence for Hurrell. If he'd have just held his ground and tensed, fine. But he goes up on his toes and leans in with his shoulder. Impact to the head is definitive.
He's not the Messiah, he's a naughty boy.
2 matches each for Hurrell and Matautia and 1 for Sironen.
Really could do with Hopoate being back for weekend to cover Hurrell. Then Bell and maybe Royle/Davies starting back row. Or shift Knowles to 2nd row and Wingfield 13. Gonna be tough on Friday.
NEVER WRITE OFF THE SAINTS