Silverwood blew the whistle before he grounded the ball for the video ref so should the try of been awarded as play should have stopped? Confused.com

He did.






Gareth Thomas screwed up and L'Estrange capitalised on it.



Terrible game though. I'm so glad I didn't bother going.

Not many did

Terrible game. I actually found myself flicking over to watch the Rugby Union on the other side. That's how bad it was.

Did they say what the attendance was?

And how annoying was that solitary drunken Welshman in the 'crowd' you could hear shouting/slurring 'Cru cru Crusaders' over and over again?

2651 I think was announced.

I'm surprised.

Looked and sounded like a sub 2000 crowd to me

There have been a few terrible games already this year, the standard of play is poor

I though it was 2,200 something on the sky caption

I couldn't believe the Tony Martin try near the end. The ref was giving "held up", Martin claimed he got the ball down. They go to the video ref who, after umpteen looks at it and not even a suggestion of him grounding the ball or indeed which side of the line, gives "Try, benefit of the doubt"!

So, lesson to be learned for players, in future always claim you scored as, if the video evidence is inconclusive you will get "Try, benefit of the doubt" which I personally think should be renamed "Oh, go on then"!

Despite the quality of the opposition Clinton Schifcofske played well especially when you consider he is 35.

Bradford were very disappointing though. Mick Potter has got a lot of work to do there.