I don't think he would find McDonald's!

If he is too much of a nutter to get in the Wigan side then I suggest he needs urgent medical attention.

Sounds like that Barlow has more than a few screws lose. Been red carded after getting involved in a brawl WHEN HE WAS ON THE BENCH!

I can see him getting a lengthy ban,running 20 yds from the bench to join in with a few haymakers.How does having a player sent off from the bench benefit the opposition exactly,apart from reducing an option of a replacement?

I may be wrong, but wouldn't Swinton have had to remove a player from the field and put him on the bench?

I would say almost certainly so.

That's exactly what I said, but it didn't happen, after Barlow was sent off he came and sat behind us in the Stand with his Family, his Dad asked him why he was sent off?He replied,I only hit their winger twice ,but Barlow wasn't even on the pitch when it started.he was in the dug out.

You`d have thought so, although I`m not up to scratch with the RFL rules.From the incident Swinton received 2 reds and a SB whilst we had a red and a SB.Both teams played with 11 players for 10 mins until both SB players returned.

I seem to remember a Bull's player being sent of whilst on the bench. It was quite a few years ago and, to be honest, I've forgotten who it was. The circumstances were a little different though, in that a scrap developed on the pitch near the touchline and the fight then spilled over into the 'tech area', so he'd no distance to run and get involved.....

In Barlows defence he only had 15m to go as it was close to the dug outs, awful ref lost it completely and should have stopped the incident by dealing with one a couple of minutes earlier when the Swinton player took a few swings with the play dead after a knock on, nothing done then same player does same again to same player and again nothing done so all hell breaks out. Some very poor refs at these games

Standard of refereeing is getting worse and worse. Since when is Chris Campbell SL standard?!

I was at Dews - Fev yesterday and Roberts had with out a doubt one of the worst performances i've seen from a match official in nye-on 20 years of watching rugby league. No control what so ever, and his grasp on the technical decisions seemed to be very poor.

The bloke we had at Sheff wasnt great either...

Not sure if you're correct with it being Murphy in that particular game, though what you describe is certainly the way Murphy worked - start a fight then disappear..

Definitely agree with your summing up! To be honest, his attitude to the game makes his appearance in the Hall of Fame an embarrassment as far as I'm concerned.

I can remember a game from the early 70's when Murphy was player coach with Warrington. He caused a mass brawl to start by the old stand on the speedway track. He tried to get out of the way then but failed as he was grabbed around his throat by Albert Fearnley who was on the coaching staff back then