The answer is teams only try to play like that against us. They only play us twice. In other words we are getting niggly games virtually every game.....but even so....do opposing coaches get involved in citing players.

It doesn't matter how many players get cited,they are only cited because the ref is teflon..You can read stats all day long or think an "all in" is ill-disipline when it's not..Read the OP those are facts,not fiction.

Quite possibly. Even so, there has to be an element of responsibility attached to us, surely?

Judging from the Championship stats. for referrals to the Disciplinary, (source - RFL website) I would suggest that there is no other example, this season, of 3 consecutive games, garnering 30-odd referrals.

London - 0
Workington - 1
Hunslet - 2
Batley - 3
Whitehaven - 3
Doncaster - 4
Dewsbury - 6
Halifax - 7
Bradford - 7
Sheffield - 10
Featherstone - 11
Leigh - 37

I don't think referrals are particularly relevant. Do we have any numbers for players charged? That seems much more relevant.

Are all 7 of Fax's referals from the games against Leigh?

Seems strange that in 2 games against Bradford, Fax do not seem to have gone down the biff route. Our discipline this season has been pretty much exemplary apart from the games against Leigh......

Is there any truth in the rumour that somehow a Featherstone Rovers fan is involved in the current FIFA scandal ?

This had occurred to me too. Bulls and Fax is a local grudge game but the games between us so far this season have been tough but fair. That begs the question of why Halifax want to bring the biff in games against Leigh when they don't against their traditional rivals. Perhaps the answer is they don't.

Don't think so. On balance of probabilities I'd go for Bracek.

Regardless of the local derby aspect, I'd say there's far more 'grudge' between the Leigh and Fax teams than Fax and Bradford, purely because of the incidents of the last couple of years along with it being one of the bigger games of the season for going on a decade now.

I don't suppose we've had any big games to get worked up about....although Hull K R was biggish.

Maybe these opposing fans with their heads stuck in their backsides should look at the bigger picture.

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Against the other [size8[/size Champ sides this season - and against Salford and Wakefield in the cup, there hasn't been [iany[/i[i real[/i fighting issues. No major "all in" situations anyway.