You'll Do me matey

Great player but he wants to cut out the play-acting! Leave that to the Wendyballers Jammer!

But still, you`ve gotta have a little dig.

People still shook Cunningham and Pryce's hand when they intentionally injured Stosic and Grix, no excuse for it..fat ginger mard ar'se.

Perhaps because of how "disrespectful" the Leeds players were to him during the game.

How dare they not allow him to rampage freely across the turf like the thoroughbred he is. Don't those nasty Leeds forwards know how great he is? Don't they know that the entire 19K crowd had come just to see him?

Shocking. No, really.

He was given a lesson by Peacock.. again. When he retired after his 20 minute battering by the Leeds pack, Peacock was still rolling it forward for Leeds.
In fairness to the guy he was obviously targetted, which to me is a mark of respect from the Leeds coaching staff and players. We learned the lesson from the previous league game where he completely lost it. It's obvious he genuinely hates Leeds and we made the most of it.

Thats the problem, most of them haven't.



When I hear superleague-only supporters ranting about hair-pulling on a rugby pitch then I know the world has gone soft.

I don't even know what a grapple tackle is? This is a new one invented a couple of years ago because we can't get people in a head lock any more. 90% of tackle pre-1990 would have been illeagal under this rule.
Has anyone actually ever been injured by a grapple? I haven't seen that many games recently but I can't recall a player going off hurt after one. Certainly can't be classed like a spear or the late forearm to the mush (Stains fans must surely remember they used to have a guy called Sonny Nickel in their team

).

As for the hair, I just laugh. I watched it on tv and it wasn't much of a pull, it was a grab for Long and the Leeds player got a bit of shirt and a bit of hair - and he let go of the hair straight away (or it slid through his fingers by the look of it). But you're right, we like to claim it's the toughest team sport in the World then people froth over that? I'm lost.

I'm a critic of todays game, but i enjoyed last night, bit of old fashioned biff, players looking over their shoulder, thats why this thread has 7 pages.

As for the saints fans calling leeds players, well there was an element of foul play but what leeds really need to compliment their dirty scumbag team is a stand off who can flippantly stick a glass in someones face. (you know the bloke who hit sinfield from behind in the semi the other year)

Pricks.

Superleague-only supporters just don't know what its like to watch your opposition team run out onto the pitch and YOU be scared just looking at them from the safety of the southstand, the likes of the Hulmes, McKenzie, Sorenson and a little earlier Karalius and Mills would make you take a step backwards further up the southstand steps if one of their runs was angled in your direction.



I'd love to see ANY of Dougie Laughtons teams be cited for hair pulling, his response would be unprintable.

All this talk about chicken wings is making me hungry, someone pass me the BBQ sauce?