There was nothing in the Elima, just a good hard tackle. It was nice to see our pack play with some aggression. Bateman has been the only one to show it until last night.

I am really surprised at how well the team is playing with all the injuries. So much hard work and commitment. Long may it continue!

I went to the exile game last year and Tomkins went down like he had been shot when one of the leeds players who was representing the exiles pushed him, that is the moment thomkins began to think he was better then everyone one from them on hes proved my point swearing to rhinos fans when they played at wembley and sliding knee first into the wire player AFTER he scored that was deliberate, nothing was done about that so how can they do elima for playing to the whistle would make no sense, also the rate silverwood was going wouldnt have surprised me if elimas hadnt made the taclke he could have waved play on ans saint would have been away.

Or if whitehead shot up and berated the ref

I've seen it back twice and he has no right whatsoever to attempt to kick the ball.

I didnt really get the significance of the ref not blowing his whistle. With most late tackles the ref hasnt blown his whistle. As I saw it Gaskell didnt have the ball so couldnt be tackled.

I am waiting for it to come on line before I can watch it again. Listening to Jamie Bloem on Radio Leeds yesterday, who is now a referee & commentated on the game, he said "If the ball is on the floor Foster has got to have the right to kick it" (or something along those lines), followed by "When his boot makes contact with Whitehead's face it has to be a penalty". It seems Bloem thinks he has. The only reason I can see that Foster couldn't go for the ball is if Whitehead had already scored the try, which I don't believe he had at the time.

I expected some opposition to my view but I didn't expect it to crash the site.

Whitehead had the ball in his hands, on the floor. Pretty sure that Foster had no need to thus kick him in the face. But penalty was duely given so no complaints from me.

Panic at saints with simmons' sacking

It was better done sooner than later. Especially with 3 big games coming up & losing 4 in a row. Nothing anyone can do now anyway.

Think it may be a case of the the chelski about saint, chelsea FC players didnt like villas-boas so didnt play or put any effort in so he was sacked and they got their own way so are now playing very well as a result.

I expect saints to win at least 2 of theirs next 3 games

I hope they win 2 of their next 3 games. I'd be happy to win 1 the way we have been playing tbh. I'm looking forward to this weeks game now

Sacking is not always the best option though. Simmons has been having a tough time, but he's proven more as a coach than Cunningham, whats to say Cunningham won't do worse?

When we sacked Macca and St Hilaire took over, we saw no improvement.

Think Saints have jumped the gun a bit (admittedly I don't see them on a week to week basis) as Simmons did ok last season. Roby is integral to that Saints side. Think Saints rely on him more than any other club rely on a player in the league (think only Sinfield comes close) so to be without him plus LMS, Soliola etc you are going to struggle.

Roby is apparently back for this Sunday's game. If not Sunday he's definitely back for Wire. We will just have to see if there is any improvement come Sunday. Alot of people knew it was coming though. 5 games without a win.

Good. He's a player that even opposition fans can enjoy to watch.

Yeah Roby's a top guy. Hope lyon will be coming to us next year to.