As a Saints fan I wouldn't have been surprissed if he had got banned given the bans we've picked up this year

Was the Drinkwater one the one where he grabbed Welsby's leg and Welsby took the opportunity to throw his standing leg into the air to con a penalty from the ref? That one?

I emplore anybody to watch that incident again in slow mo. I spotted it straight away. The man is a cunning little runt. Struts around with his hunchback as though he was born on a coat hanger trying to make himself look big. I don't think he ever exhales. Tries to look like Mr Universe to hide the fact he is Mr Punyverse. Odious little turd he is.

Reminds me of a young Tomkins, bags of talent, but real attitude isssue.

Identical in the attitude regard.

I believe the c and the r may be interchangeable in that sentence.

Williams will miss the first international against Tonga

Yes. They actually placed him back down on the floor.

You are clearly hallucinating. It's a clear lift above the horizontal. Nothing malicious but a dead set penalty all day every day.
Your letting your pretty jealousy get in the way of common sense.

I was actually watching the game with a Saints fan he called both the forward pass and Welsby “helping” the tackle go above horizontal. It hadn’t occurred to me.

Absolute tosh

I'm not sure that was a Saints fan, can't have been!

I called the welsby leg throw immediately, thaler fell for it big time.

I'm sure a lot of people did. In fact, I'm sure Thaler did. But what was Drinkwater doing? Lifting his legs gave him the opportunity to do that when he was already wrapped in the tackle and going nowhere. Just dumb from Drinkwater.

It was obvious. You only need to look where Drinkwater's hand finishes lifting in relation to where Welsby's leg ends up. Welsby has previous form for this so no real surprise. I think the disciplinary made a statement by not deeming it an issue but I wish they'd go further and actually sanction players who indulge in this sort of cheating. Play acting to gain penalties is a blight on the game and needs stamping out.

Totally agree with you, it was stupid, but personally I feel that the playacting needs to be stamped out.

I said at the time it was clever from welsby, but these dark arts type things really don't help the sport IMO. The game needs cleaning up, especially around the ruck but also the little bit of gamesmanship creeping in.