the penalty was a disgraceful decision, really leaves a bitter taste in the mouth... but I can't justify our paper thin defence in that first twenty minutes. Strange game but you looked far better than in round 2 vs St Helens. Good luck for the rest of the year.

Not many will get any thing over there in france so well done. It was even exciting following the game on teletext.

Balls. The rule change was for players not knowing they're held. He's lying on his front going nowhere with Tommy Lee holding onto his legs, knows he's held, gets up and legs it to waste a bit of time. Penalty all day long that.

Todd Carney just tweeted[iJust got home from the hospital, Broken Ribs Fingers crossed I won't be out for long.[/i

Who cares?


I think it was a fair decision. Given the timing as well, escare was probably trying to kill additional time. Cas had a perfectly good try chalked off there 3 week ago, and lost 1 point, so to hear their coach make out theyre victims every week is a bit extreme.

While I don't like seeing any player pick up an injury there was nothing in the tackle, it was a perfectly legal brilliantly executed bell ringer.

That one goes on the show reel alongside Chases magic of last week.

From what I saw yesterday you can't discount Paterson staying in the 3/4ers but the real issue is the other wing when BJB is back, Johnson has all the pace but lacks something, likewise MCB is equally as fast but again his defense doesn't look as robust as it should so for me either Evalds or Griffin will get the nod. Pity about MCB as he would be immense outside Paterson if only he could sure up his defense.

M.R. the thing we seem to forget is that MCB had only played a handful of games before he came to us. Opposition teams probably know now that his one on one defence is not brilliant. It's now up to him and the coaching team to go away and work on this.
Saying that you can have the best defensive technique in the world and be made to look hopeless if the teams defensive structure isn't quite right. Personally I think both sides need some work but we are improving.
From my point of view the glass is certainly half full after all games excepting the St's game.

Certainly agree that's for shore

The problem is these slow-motion replay's can make things appear far worse than they actually are. For instance they can deceive you into thinking a committed defender has more time to pull out. You have to judge incidents like this in real time.

It's always going to be a consequence of the play in RL as a HB. They expect to take the hit as they are delaying the pass until the last second. All HB's accept this, and indeed, will judge themselves on it. The tackle was fair, just a tough one. I'm sure Carney isn't bothered by it and will be right as soon as he's healed.

Correct.
The rule change is regularly applied and the ref had plenty of thinking time.
There's no way he made a mistake.
I'd have been gutted had we conceded one like that but he grounded the ball in a tackle and didn't then play the ball.
Right decision

I'm sorry but I know the ref's have mics ect but as on the sky game if he did not here held I'm as wealthy as mk... He clearly and loudly (the ref) shouts held as Josh Griffin had clearly made the tackle (ball carrying arm on the deck with his leg being held) and escare thinks it's okay to get up and run an extra 10 meters. I think not. 100% a penalty and to be honest whilst there were a few bad decisions probably the best reffed game I've seen this year he was fair and consistent also if you were watching on sky he had warned Catalan a few times for moving of the mark as in shouting watch the mark

Has anyone got any footage of Griffins first kick that wasn't given?

Yes its on twitter and it's 100% over proof is in the video

Maybe its time for goal post technology? Seriously if that single point cost a place in SL or a win in the grand final ?