The York player who ‘abused’ the system was in A+E last night with a suspected broken jaw and/or a broken nose.

Still waiting for clarification on timekeeping - it’s either done by an RFL official or a rep from BOTH clubs, so blowing the hooter early as alleged by some will have been a joint decision or an RFL decision.

Wasn’t at the game (wife’s birthday) but managed to catch bits of the commentary on the radio. It sounded like to very evenly matched teams. In the end it came down to our inability to kick enough goals. York closed the game out and we didn’t, even if we were only the width of a post away from it.

There now seems to be a bit of a gap opening up between ourselves and the top 5. We should aim to win all our remaining games and just see where that leaves us. The dropped point last week was a blow but really it was the games against York and Sheffield that have cost us. I just hope Chalmers wasn’t gambling the club on a top 5 finish like Green did.

6th would be a very decent showing given we were the 2nd best team in L1 last year. However when you look at how York have gone and how consistent they have been you wonder if we could’ve done better.

I think people just love looking for conspiracies and controversy even when there isn't any. It's also very poor form of John Kear to be making those sort of comments to the press when he can't prove his allegations. He just looks like a sore loser.
We outscored York 5 tries to 4 and still lost, something that should never happen in a game of RL. Couple that with the knock on in the last minute, the foot in touch when grounding the ball, and the intercept passes and the only people JK and the players should be disappointed with are themselves.

I still think it will come down to the wire between ourselves and York for fifth spot, but I can see us just missing out and finishing sixth. I'm fine with this as long as Chalmers didn't foolishly budget for us finishing in the top 5. That's my only anxiety and it will continue to be so until the funding distribution is evenly spread irrespective of the final league standings.

Irrelevant. For a Head Injury/concussion assessment, it all comes down to whether the player had symptoms which made the Dr/physio suspect concussion. Plenty of players have nose bleeds without needing a concussion assessment. Equally players need concussion assessment without any obvious head injury. One doesn't necessarily mean the other.

Has the allegation been made by anyone other than our resident gob$h!t3? Wouldn't be the first time he's made accusations other than for them to be completely false (Remember his Morgan Escare tweet) one day the boy will land himself in hot water.

I agree with Nothus about Kears comments. End of the day we lost it ourselves through awful missed conversions (again, whoever chose to swap Keyes for Lilley wants shooting) and schoolboy errors.

Focusing on those conspiracies makes him look like a bad loser. If they're true, go through the right channels to make a complaint. The two instances where he had every right to feel aggrieved (the complete ignoring of the rules by the ref to not sin-bin their man for a professional foul. And the blatent high shot "missed" by the TJ which resulted in Evans being KO'd he didn't bring up)

Frustrating but we only have ourselves to blame I'm afraid.

This constant swapping of kicking duties amongst the players is a bit reminiscent of a pub team.

Agree.

Here are the goal-kicking percentages for the season to date.

Minchella 73%
Lilley 75%
Keyes 77%

John Kear has repeatedly said throughout the season that his goalkicker needs to be at 85-90%.

What are these conspiracy theories? Because of all that happened yesterday was a timekeeping mistake which was picked up first by Damian Irvine in the commentary and then myself.

Never did either of us say there was a conspiracy theory so please don't jump on the bandwagon with that troll Bull Mania.

I've already replied with the timekeeping protocol for the Championship - it's controlled by the appointed RFL timekeeper - not the York representative as was the case yesterday.

This isn’t nitpicking. The game needs to uphold basic standards and playing the full 80 is one of them.

Well there's the timekeeping, then JK's issue with York bending the rules, and others were also kicking up a fuss about Ryan's disallowed try. All of these from just one game! Last week we had players disputing Swinton's first try and posting pictures on twitter of his foot in touch etc. My comments weren't aimed at anyone specific btw.

No worries mate, if you look on Twitter I've just retweeted Damian’s thoughts on the game yesterday.

What a fantastic city to watch RL in. It will be a shame when they move. On the game itself, I thought York were worthy winners. I never thought I'd say it but i thought they were a better coached team. No-one stood out for York but they all knew their jobs. For Bradford Ryan obviously stood out, Crossley never stopped, Minichella looks class but not involved enough. Webster is knackered. Lilley has a great rugby bran but is far too slow to make it worthwhile.

When did Keyes and Lilley swap kicking duties? I thought Keyes attempted them all yesterday?

After Joe missed the first three.