Fair point, he seemed to go in peaks & troughs - letting minor infringments go and five minutes later blowing up. I do think the game was better for letting it flow though.

I personally prefer the game with some leeway - let's hope the refs can get used to being a little more lenient and keep it consistent.

cheers, the closest you have been to right in a long time

Bailey is a house.

thats an inherent problem with 'letting it flow' because 'letting it flow' means allowing rules to be broken whilst punishing them same rules at another time,

what there needs to be is rules that mean we dont get 50 penalties a game, but where whenever a rule is broken it is punished

I thought Graham was better than Bailey, his all round play particularly in defence was superb, plus he had a hand in Wheeler's try which clinched it for Saints.

Bentham did very well in keeping control of the game, we've all been to games where we've said 'the ref has lost control', that didn't happen today and it certainly could of!

Graham (among others) lost his cool, and for 20 minutes where Leeds had there best spell was because of this,

Saints were better and could have won by more had they kept their cool, but Graham especially needed to keep his head

The best 3 forwards on the pitch were Graham, Flannery and Cunningham. Leeds best was Burgess IMO, peacock had an average game and Bailey (good hit) other than that he didnt do much except hide out as a second phase player when Leeds attacked crapping himself. Senior and Gidley had a good battle in the centres and it was overall a very enjoyable game which the best team won.

When did Graham lose his cool? Graham COULD have lost his cool very easily as he was obviously wound up by Bailey's hit on his team mate, but Graham REMAINED cool, and stayed on the pitch. Bailey was the one substituted to calm down, Graham stayed on the pitch and went on to contribute to Saints scoring the clinching try.

What? By running behind his own players?

for the 10-20 minutes where leeds came back into the game, he spent more time trying to be the big man and get at Bailey than concentrating on his game

i dont think he had a 'bad' game i think he could have been better, another day another ref could have seen him, Gilmour and Cunningham gone, which would have put leeds in a strong position we didnt really earn

How did he do that when Bailey was off the field?

Brilliant.

Give over man. Flannery was MoM.