Quote: maurice "Powell is playing a risky game, if you get Ganson in charge you will get slaughtered. I am not a Fax fan, I saw how Powell behaved at Leigh, if you did you will know what I mean.
Fev are punching above their weight, and doing it well, but if a ref has the danglies to clamp down on the niggles, grapples, pushes used to slow the ptb they will get beat by any of the top clubs.'"
It's a bit boring but can I suggest you get a stopwatch, take ten tackles from each side and measure the time from when Mr Thomason said held and the ball was played. Being a boring sod with nothing better to do I used Sky+ and did just that. There is nothing to choose between the teams.
The time taken to play the ball is like the distance that the referee takes the defensive line back. It is a fact of life that ten metres becomes eight when you are attacking and twelve when you're defending.
The same applies to most things in the game like niggles, grapples pushes etc. We all see what we want to see and then if we have chance to watch the game when the blood has cooled realise that such things are usually very even.
