Quote: Jake the Peg "salford simply fall apart when lui isn't playing. barba is a great player but really too soon to say he is SL's best import ever, particularly given that the quality of opposition is much worse now than it was 5, 10, 15 years ago.
It was deffo a red card. evalds was in cloud cuckoo land. there was absolutely no attempt at a real tackle from the saints player and his swinging arm/fist hit evalds square in the face hard enough to knock him out.
Deserves a game or two ban for it.'"
I don't think Salford fell apart, is was just that the Saints team didn't allow Salford to play there normal game from minute 1 to minute 80.
Barba has been the best player in the NRL when playing for the Bulldogs and I can't think of any other super league player at the moment who has had the same impact half way through this season, also he is probably going to get better with the dry harder pitches.
Matty Lees, no problem with the red card as long as we are consistent with those type of tackles, I reckon Matty Lees wanted to execute a heavy tackle to dislodge the ball, this he did but Evalds was falling to ground and into a swinging arm.