Was probably a yellow but you're talking wet. Australia had some terrible calls against them, especially in the first half.

Westwood pushed the boundaries all game. I'm surprised he wasn't sin binned, to be completely honest with you. He deserved too - A long with Watmough.

I agree Yeaman was poor, but I really dont know what game you were watching if you thought Briscoe had a bad game. fwiw I thought Reed was the worst of our backs. Cost us a try by shooting out of the line and aside from his try (great take) he did nothing else. In fact it would surprise me if someone said he touched the ball more than three times.

Think your the one talking crap fella, Williams should have seen a red card and in the rule book you can't sin bin for foul play.

Westwood was superb throughout, if your looking for someone who pushed he boundaries look no further than Gallen.

Wasn't Reed's fault that try was scored. Was abysmal goal line defending from Tomkins and whoever else was there. There was ample time and room to smash the Australian and prevent a try.

Switch roles and the Australians would have prevented that try, with or without one of their rushing up out of the line

But the difference is when Sam Tomkins ran across the field he drew defenders and either played his man into a break or made a break himself. Briscoe runs up - very, very slowly - and is tackled. He poses no threat and is completely ineffective.

I don't know if we get opta stats from these games but it'd be interesting to send how many tackle busts Briscoe made for someone who is 'completely ineffective'.

Red card for an accidental high shot? Give over. Was nothing malicious about it and Westwood milked it for all it was worth.

If an England played was red carded for a similar incident nobody on here - yourself included - would view the decision as the right one.

And Westwood was superb. But if we're talking about players deserving to be binned for ing about in the ruck then Westwood was the worst offender on the field.

Not sure what you're talking about Gallen for, this isn't 2008. He didn't do much interfering or slowing down at all. Westwood, Watmough and Smith were the key offenders tonight.

When everyone on the thread minus Bulls4Champ is disagreeing with you, it's time to think maybe you should wait till you watch the game sober before commenting.

Quote: Old_Faithful_IAKW "I don't know if we get opta stats from these games but it'd be interesting to send how many tackle busts Briscoe made for someone who is 'completely ineffective'.'" Briscoe broke one tackle and made 0 line breaks. live.nrlstats.com/matches/nrl/match11779.html

Quote: Old_Faithful_IAKW "I don't know if we get opta stats from these games but it'd be interesting to send how many tackle busts Briscoe made for someone who is 'completely ineffective'.'" Briscoe broke one tackle and made 0 line breaks. live.nrlstats.com/matches/nrl/match11779.html

I wouldn't say "everyone" is disagreeing with me. 3 people have disagreed with me. And it's fallacious to think that because an opinion is unpopular that is must be wrong.

Briscoe was flat today. Any average winger could have played as well as him.

In what way was Williams tackle different to Ewards or Morley?

It was a straight sending off offence and accidental, lazy or any other defence doesn't make any difference.

Mate, are you taking the here or what? Edwards and Morley are 2 of the worst, most insane high and blatant high shots that you'll ever see in a game of Rugby.

Williams went to make a bog standard tackle and caught Westwood high. Was nothing malicious, Westwood milked it and it looked terrible because Williams is a monster of a man. If little Billy Slater accidently sticks a man with his forearm like that the game plays on and nobody gives a .

That was a yellow card. It's a red card on Rugby Union, in Rugby League it's a yellow.