Crooks and Hall have gone well for us since coming in. Both seem to have improved the defensive side of their games since leaving. I liked the big centre for TWP but other than him it's a bunch of jobbers who have a huge advantage with or without Child beningnly smiling upon them in Canada.Cant see Noble complaining about refs after that master class

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I think it is the longest game I have watched on TV, there were far too many stoppages with accompanying water breaks.

And did anyone else notice the clock go back in time and then stop in the last 20 seconds, or did I imagine it?

It got to 80.00 then jumped back to 79.41.

So it was either a TV mistake or someone trying to milk an extra 20 seconds for Toronto to steal the ball and score. Probably the former but it all looks unprofessional.

Same at the end of the first half

It was a massive win even though we didn’t play particularly well Lunt is becoming a liability good as he is he’s not playing enough I really fancy us to turn Leeds over with some grunt back I think we’ve really missed Blair

Very happy with the result! But to be fair to Toronto there was no disgrace in defeat. However they seem to be running out of backs and that could cost them if they lose any more.

I still expect them to get 10 points, mores the pity...

I didn't actually see any water breaks called officially. Did I miss something!

Usually just very slow to form scrums. Gave the DJ plenty of chance to play his tunes!

why the anthems at the beginning I don't know I mean it wasn't an international game,
they gave a good account for them selves which I thought they would which is far better than watching a dire widnes side,
crowd seem uninterested at times like they was being forced to watch the game but I suppose its because the games new to them, I like the open set up great in summer I bet but where's the cover, does it never rain Toronto,
I take it the token tents at the end are for the beer, its a good way of serving and speeds things up

Pedant! There was water on at every stoppage as there is in all games, it is more noticeable when there are more stoppages.

Anthems are a North American thing, for any sport. For example, even if both teams are from Canada, they will play the Canadian national anthem. When the teams are from two different countries even if not an international match, they play both anthems.

It does rain here but in two seasons I can only recall one Wolfpack game where it rained heavily all day but miraculously stopped just before kick-off.

The tents at the north end are the beer garden. Two tents sell tokens and the rest sell beer - leaves the servers free to pour beer without wasting time taking cash and processing debit cards. Each tent is run by a different craft brewer although we now regularly have BrewDog and yesterday for the first time we had Meantime who appear to be from Greenwich.

so in theory you should also play other players anthems ie Aussie, Somoa, Tonga I can understand it being an American thing, we use the same system at our beer events over here so simple when your just deal with beer, shame you'll not get to try the beer I made and served at Belle vue it was stonking ale