Quote: vastman "Don't agree and I rate Thaler.
Houghton's sin binning was marginal and Thaler could have let it go as a penalty and shown a bit of discretion. By wanting to be overly tough and zealous he chose to send him off and lets be right here plenty of those get nothing more than a penalty.
By doing this he gave himself no options when it came to Washbrook's far more obvious sending off. This meant the ref as ever in the modern game made himself the centre of attention because imo far to many of them believe themselves to be the stars of the game. It went from a punishment to a certain game changer giving Saints a totally undeserved advantage.
It was poor reffing in my opinion and ruined what could have been one of the great game.Also I on't think Hull did come to get 'down and dirty, certainly no more that Saints did, think you've been suckered on that one.'"
Well you need to have a quiet word with Radford, pre game he was quoted as saying "We will be playing on the Cusp of Legality". Just watched the replay again with Houghton, prior to other two Hull players coming in to compress the tackle, Houghton was twisting Richardson neck as though he didn't know if his head was screwed on with a left or right hand thread, surprised the disciplinary have ignored it like most grapple tackles these days.
