The point is that, the team know that the captain has been spoken to.
Very rarely, if at all does the captain actually go and speak to his team.

Even though the games weren't classics and I have concerns over where RL is going as a spectacle to watch...this is great news for SL. The RFL & Club marketing teams need to get off their back sides and get some promotion done. Any English success against Australia goes down well with the general public, and we need to make the most of it.

Yes , it's the next to last warning

I thought Warrington-Brisbane was a great spectacle, played at a high intensity.

Not everybody on the team will know what's been said between captain and referee though as they're too far away. We know because we can hear the refs on tv but the ref and captain in conversation can't always be assumed to be that the whole team is on a warning from players who are 20/30m away from said conversation.

It was the better of the two, but I still feel the game is lacking some flair these days

That's the captains problem , not the refs

I remember Sinfield asking a referee to give him time to speak to his team before restarting play, but I can't remember other captains picking up the obvious advantages in doing that.

Have you watched the NRL lately? It's turned into British bulldog.

Regards

King James

Cronulla and Brisbane will probably be happy to have got some pretty high intensity run outs before their season starts. We should try and organise something like our top three going over there to play next time. All our teams would be delighted to get the chance to go over and I'm sure pretty much all the Aussie teams would be delighted to play us over there.

I agree about the grounding of the ball but I was with Barrie Mc and my first thought was it had brushed the forearm of his left arm.

Their second disallowed try was a tough 50/50 call. If it had gone up as a try it would have been given as there wasn't enough evidence either way. Sometimes you get them and sometimes you don't. Course, if he'd have caught it clean and grounded it clearly in the field of play there would have been no need for the VR. If you're gonna drop it and ground it on the touch line you can't really complain if you don't get the 50/50 call.

Not sure what you're problem is with the last try. In this case even though it went up as no try there was clear video evidence to overrule it. You can't really argue with the lines on the pitch. Footage showed Burgess [iwas[/i onside and that he [idid[/i ground it. The VR has no choice but to give it.