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.

wife woke me up at 6am to watch the union......I thought it was the worst sport I was going to see this week....but then SKY NZ showed delayed coverage of the welsh v bulls.........the worst game of SL RL I have seen in ages.

The only good thing was eddies comment about st George players watching it on TV and assuring them that Wigan are better than the 2 on show.

As for the crowd....? Who cares?

According to the rulebook of televised games, he probably did. It only has to show the slightest touch with the hand, Meli at Wigan last year (I think) was an example of this.





In my eyes, L'Estrange knocked the ball out of his hand (not purposely, just in the tackle) which I think is now a knock on whether they went to knock it out or went to tackle IIRC.

in that situation, the video ref has no choice but to give benefit of the doubt. not sure why Silverwood went to video when he was stood right over the play with his face inches from the incident, then claimed he hadnt seen it.

Not sure how he expected Thaler to have a magical camera that could see through a pile of players from 50m away, but surely he knew it was going to end up being BOD, so may as well have just given the try.

Phil Clarke said, "These two teams have managed to take the 'Super' out of Super League." That was an understatement. Mistakes throughout, poor playing standards seen in the skill levels on show accompanied by a very ordinary performance by the referee. Thank goodness we don't see many games like this in a season. Let's hope it has lulled the St George Dragons into a false sense of security regarding the standards in SL.

poor crowd too, hopefully caused the the 6 nations being on

if maintained it will be hard for the club to survive on such gates