Barlow did nothing wrong, Whitehaven just wanted to fight knowing they'd been outplayed in every department, Barlow was awesome, and Higson was awesome again!

Admittedly my eyes may have been a little tired as I was still in Gibraltar at 11am this morning only arriving at LSV with minutes to spare but I thought Sam Barlow was outstanding yet again. He is the player we have been missing in our pack since the day Streety retired. We made a lot of valuable metres on the back of his off loads and drives. He also worked tirelessly in defence all afternoon.

The guy at the side of me was referring to his reputation preceding him so when the hooter went I made it my business to watch him closely and quite frankly you are talking utter and complete tosh.

He walked back on to the field, patted the referee on his back, spoke to a few opposition players like the rest of our team did, shaked everyone's hand ( even Haven's number 30) then joined the rest of our team in the huddle.

What did you see that was untoward after the match?

That incident was after the Batley match. Instead of shaking hands with the opposition he grabbed one by the throat and gave him an earbashing jabbing his finger in his face for about 30 seconds.

I love a player with a bit of mongrel in him. Sam Barlow is fantastic.

If people think barlows a naughty bugger rent some DVDs off Fred of a young Timmy in the 80's.

Every winning team has a Sam, without him we would be a miles weaker team!!

Tireless in defence, great taking ball to the line, monster offload, wonderful feet for a big lad and physically huge. Also a nowty beggar and the kind of player I'm glad is wearing our shirt and nobody else's.

Don't disagree, just don't like the other side of his game. If he stopped the stupidity he would be even better.

Would not be half the player without it trust me.

You might change your mind by then
My six on todays performance would be ....
AJ, Armstrong, Kes, Kay, Barlow and Spencer.... plus is Farrell at the Pies any better than Tommy Goulden?

Putting my original post to one side, I thought that individually and collectively we where excellent today. Attack and defence was excellent, our kicking was brilliant - even more so considering our main kicker got injured. With better weather and some of the marginal calls/decisions going our way, reckon we may see a new club record for largest victory at some point.

There was a stupid person playing your correct, Lee Doran is his name ! what a B@@d@y nuisance he is! every tackle he's niggling the bloke's a penalty machine! I personally only saw barlow transgress once and, that was the incident he was sin binned for! I have been very impressed and pleased by his performances and, his teamates are not bad either

I though running in to punch a man on the floor was idiotic of him and deservedly got him sin binned, hope Rowley will have words and make sure that doesn't happen again. Other than that thought he had a great game, Whitehaven came to rough it up and once they were out of the game just stepped that up and Barlow and the rest of the team responded in kind without over stepping the line (apart from Barlow's sin binning).

I would still prefer us to play with 13 players on the field. He has to learn to do what Timmy did in his later years and that was to laugh at those trying to wind him up. He will be targeted especially by the better sides.

Spot on.

mmm it doesn't look like a 'run in' on the video that the judiciary will have.