Only slight gripe I'd have over Bentham last night was how Tony Clubb doesn't get sin-binned for simply being unable to tackle properly.....



One head tackle is careless and fair enough, but to carry out the same offence in the very next play is taking the p!$s - Bentham should have binned him immediately, as surely that is what the sin bin is there for, so as to punish players who are obviously suffering from a lack of discipline.

At the very least, in a situation like that, a referee should be able to make the offender be removed from the pitch, using up one of his side's interchanges.

Agreed ...
The point being that if the ref does NOWT then the message given out is 'carry on infringing'..
Also there is a tendency nowadays for the ref to 'have a word' with players after unpunished misdemeanours when he should be penalising and attempting to stamp them out.
Pants really ...it smacks of 'owt for a quiet life'.

No complaints from me about the refereeing aside from the Wigan players continually striking out at the markers when playing the ball. Sarginson and Clubb the worst offenders.

I think 'free play'is a nonsense rule and the game was settled off the back of one. A real shame I thought.

Regards letting a game flow, blow up like mad in the first few games of the season, then games will flow when people stop p*ss*ng about and they know the boundaries.

They do that already and it just ruins the 1st month of rugby and doesn't work. How about people just get better on the ground and speed up the ruck and not just the play of the ball like they do in the NRL, the actual wrestling doesn't happen any less just the players are much quicker.