Quote: Gotcha "The six again rule in this country is an utter nonsense. Our refs were miles behind the Aussie refs before looking at this, but introducing this calls up all sorts of problems. Absolutley none of our officials have the integrity to manage that rule fairly.
In terms of the match, we were utter garbage. The result doesn't change that. It was nonsense when posters were saying the ref was not to blame up to 60 minutes, as he quite clearly was. And just as clearly as he was influencing Huddersfields performance upto 60 minutes, he did the exact oppossite for the next 20 minutes, and turned out to be the big influence on us coming back, with some poor calls in our favour.
We have some poor players in our squad unfortunately, not up to this level, and we have others that luckily are way above their team mates. That Briscoe try by the way was fantastic play, and for any faults he has, he is the only winger in our squad who would have scored that try. No way Handley would have got close to it.
We won't get away with Myler playing fullback in another game, he was found out there. Thought he battled admirably and tried so hard, but certainly not the influence he was previously.'"
Exactly this, at half time I said that undoubtedly we were poor but the number of penalties and restarted counts that went against us were a massive influence as well. Like most refs Hicks decided to level up the count last 20 minutes then all of a sudden Shuddersfield look out on their feet and we got some real momentum.
I've no idea if he is but Ava looked a little overweight to me and Lui is like a racehorse that needs a few runs to reach its peak. Myler took two almighty hits which knocked him off his game and you can be sure that other clubs took note of that.
