I have got to disagree with you fundamentaly I`m afraid.

The Saints fans have been calling consistently for Bailey Diskin and to a lesser extent Senior all to be banned for alleged foul or dirty play.

They have worked themselves up to a blind hysteria all week only to be emabarrased by all the rulings from the RFL.

Even worse is the total failure to accept any arguemnt that they are also being totally hypocritical to boot when the likes of Fasavalu Hooper and other Sainter players in the past have all been guilty of exactly the same sorts of indiscretions.

By and large... well no actually its almost a total majority of regular posters have accepted that the Saints deserved their victory on the day and where the better team with perhaps the exception of one notable individual.

Why thankyou!

The sad thing is though, I wouldn't claim for a second to be any kind of genius or expert in any way - I was just applying basic common sense and logic. Makes you wonder what they put in the water over there... either that or the standard of education in this country is declining even more than I thought!!

In the NRL your shoulder is classed as part of your arm, so a shoulder in the face is head high

Agreed but in this instance it was ruled Bailey didnt attempt to make contact with the head. The ball carrier was at fault and dipped into the tackle.

The way I look at it that there will be similar tackles throughout the season against Leeds players that will rile the South Standers. It's not a criticism just the one eyed nature of rugby league supporters in general.

As for Bailey tackle I want more of the same. I was actually dissapointed McClenan pulled Bailey shortly afterwards - it was heading for fire works.

I'm not that disappointed. For me, he had done his job. Saints lost the plot for a few minutes, we brought on players with a bigger acctacking impact to capitalise

Surely he should have been cited for butting Bailey's shoulder - end of !!!

It can all be traced back to a soggy night in Salford last October.

Since around 08:00pm that night there has been incessant bleating from the Scousers. It seems this time all the 'Hey, Hey, Hey, Heying' has been targetted unfairly at Ryan Bailey.

I'm sure he'll lose lots of sleep over it!

Bailey himself took one only a few weeks ago by Briscoe at HKR, I can't remember anyone on here bleating about it.

I'd love to see him play against Willy Mason again, there's some major fireworks for you!

Briscoe was a lot lower there was no reason for any interpretation of the rules

some people do get carried away. He had one of his better games and stood out in our pack.

Danny Ward has a GF ring and was picked by a top coach. You're not automatically a top player if you play in a winning team.

Bailey is a good squad player who has things he could work on, penalities and go forward being one but his aggression in defence, fitness, quick play of the ball for his reported salary make him a good bit of business.

Nothing wrong with the hit btw.

Well..Danny Ward had other "issues"

I agree with most of your post but why use Ward as a negative example? In 2004 he was emerging into one of the best props in the league. hence his representative honours.

Ward thoroughly deserved his GF ring, had a great year and went on to the pinnacle of the sport. Just like Bailey btw. They were not "carried along" by the rest of the great 2004 team, they were an integral part of it. In fact, that mantle probably belonged to Barrie, reaching the back end of his career.