I might have spoken to soon about Salford

Thought the Currie binning was absolutely spot on. He knew what he was doing in trying to draw a reaction out of Murdoch-Masila, and that turned what was a nothing incident into a flare-up that could have got out of hand.

He'd been at it most of the game as well. Talented player, but I do hope he isn't developing into a bit of a big time Charlie off the back of the praise he got last year.

I agree about the Currie binning, it wasn't the worst offence going, but it's crept into the game, it needs to be stamped out,it's bad sportsmanship,against the spirit of the game and in a situation like last night it could and did escalate things if tensions are running high.
And it did calm things down and led to an exciting finish, without Hicks taking control then it could have been a niggle-fest for the remainder of it.
Although why Murdoch-Masila wasn't binned too is baffling.

I think Murdoch-Masila probably got some credit off Hicks for not reacting to it other than a little bit of a chest bumping square off. Carney was the one who came running into an incident that didn't involve him, grabbed a Wire player and cocked the arm back ready to throw one.

No problem with the Currie binning as long as it is applied consistently.

Glad Currie showed a bit of fire in his belly, its about the only thing missing from his game.

I too thought Hicks did OK. Not the message you would deduce from the younger posters on another thread. One such poster couldn't watch anymore the reffing was so bad.

Currie inadvertently won us the game in those 2 incidents he had with Murdoch-Masila, Salford game plan out the window, more interested in settling scores and getting into the biff. Up to that point they were in control, one thing Wire have never been is intimidated, in fact we are probably the kings of roughhouse tactics (rough not sh-thouse, that's Wigan)

Got in their heads, won us the game.

I actually thought that M-M had been trying to intimidate Currie from quite early on and Currie showed he wasn't going to be intimidated. The sin bin did confuse me though;
1) if he was right to bin Currie then M-M should have gone, he was seen to indulge in foul play and was penalised which in my view was more serious than the hair ruffling...not sure what message the ref was trying to send out
2) I think the whole hair ruffling after a dropped ball etc needs to be quashed as being childish so in the long run although unfair may be of benefit
Thought Currie was immense (not a big time Charlie) and am I the only one to be reminded of Sculthorpe (P not D) who also was reluctant to take a backward step from a confrontation?

If you tried to wind Sculthorpe up you usually got a smack to the chops for your troubles, you could in them days.
Farrell tried it and came off 2nd best.

After today's event's Roversmad



(in no particular order)
Salford
Wakefield
Hull KR

I have not a clue who the 4th team might be !!!!

I was very proud of Currie last night, M-M was trying to rattle him all game but in the end it was M-M that backed away from the confrontation when it boiled over.

Currie knew exactly what he was doing and it worked. After that incident we seemed to wake up and started playing with passion.

I thought Hicks was poor and don't buy in to the "at least he was consistent" stuff.

The problem in super league is that players get used to relying on penalties to score a try. When the internationals come around at the end of the season, the referees (even the UK ones) completely change the rules and the benchmark for a penalty becomes much higher. The Super League players struggle because they have been conditioned to rely on penalties to score tries, and have not been conditioned to be patient and go set for set for 10 minutes waiting for an opportunity.

Hicks blowing his whistle every 2 minutes, not only results in a frustrating game for the fans but also serves to harm our international prospects at club and country level.

As someone has already pointed out, the Brisbane NRL game had 7 penalties in it which is about the same as Hicks gave in the first 15 minutes.

It was noticeable that Silverwood followed a similar policy in the Wire v Wakefield game last week - i do wonder if the referees are having their usual early season clamp down on the back of some edict from Ganson/Sharp/Cummings etc which has blighted previous seasons too.

The sooner referees just let the players get on with it and apply some commonsense to their decisions, the better.