whod of thought leeds would be in 8th position..defeat to the bulls this weekend and the alarm bells will be ringing...as for saints its the pies will they get put in their place again

Beats football hands down!

Good game, good game, Sir Bruce.

On the coverage though. That was embarrassing.
People watching, must have thought "Good God. How many presenters do you need".
We had
Hemmings
Stephenson
Clarke
Carney
Studd
McDermott
O'Connor
Wells in the pre-amble...talk about too many cooks
and Arthur (who we never saw)
Angela Powers must be sat at home with a voodoo doll and a bucket full of pins, shouting "where was my invite".

Also, the national anthem, and players being presented to "dignataries"(FOR A LEAGUE GAME) was trowelling it on a bit thick, wasn't it? Looked a bit small time, trying to be big time.

Criticised for trying to promote the game? You couldn't write it...

Oh hang on, you just did...

They'll probably 'win' SL form there. In a way I hope they do 'cos it's a loving joke.



Or carry a good performance through to next week and we'll be top.

As long as we don't get beat on Saturday.

Some of the presenters were doing 3D coverage mainly or only in Arthur's case, so they needed more (in the case of Clarke though, less of him would be welcome). On the football on Saturday there was Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, Neville, then with a presenter, commentator, touchline reporter they were nearly up to the same number on HD coverage alone.

Overall an interesting game, a very good crowd of 15,343 and hopefully high viewing figures.

Absolute breath of fresh air last night was Ganson's refereeing, and listening to John Wilkin after the game speaking like a normal person, and being passionate about our game.

Agree with all that. An earlier poster ridiculed what Wilkin said, it's about time someone started to try to sell our game properly. I thought what Wilkin said was absolutely right. It was a great game and a perfect way to sell RL. Just hope Saints can keep this up on Sunday.
Ganson was also superb. He got virtually everything right (despite the South Standers), and only went to the screen once (for the brilliant Makinson try). All in all a great evenings entertainment.

superb game great to watch....thought ganson had a great game kept it flowing

Must admit i was sceptical about Monday Night Super League, but will be honest and say i really enjoyed it, broke up my monday evening nicely. Top game. Im looking forward to our couple of monday night matches and hopefuly last nights weather will continue too....

It was a refreshing change from Wilkin to hear something positive, he used his awful column on the BBC website to talk negatively about the game wherever he could. Fair play to him.

Wilkin did a magnificent job in the post match interview, he came across well and not thick as pig excrement, thank god peacock didn't win it, there is only one person I hate hearing interviewed more and that's Josh Charnley deary me that boy needs a few elocution lessons, cracking player but I just feel Super League players don't come across as well as the players from the NRL when being interviewed so hearing Wilkin last night was a breath of fresh air.

I'm a bit suprised with all the Ganson stuff though....
summed up by Eddie When He said something along the lines of:

"Ganson has reffed like This a few times now, he makes quick calls and is confident with his decisions........................and nine times out of ten is right...."



I thought the point of the video ref was so we could get ten out of ten right...........????

I think it's great that Wilkin talked the Magic Weekend up, all credit to him.

But let's not pretend that he's always like this please, more often that not he's a right miserable sod who comes across as aspiring to be the next Schofield.