It promises to be an enthralling contest with our attacking prowess against your strong defence. As far as our own defense goes, I think the points against is a little distorted due to shipping points heavily in the early matches when the lads were gelling. At the risk of being bitten on the 'arris I'd say we're much improved.

And the same happened in your faviour when we were a couple of yards from your line.

This is exactly the point, exactly the same thing happened at the other end in front of us when a rovers player picked up the ball while accidentally offside but no penalty was given to us, bentham was right there, saw what happened and played on. There is just no consistency the rules seem to change during games. The current standard of refereeing is the worst it has ever been, and I'm talking about from a neutral point. I watch as many games as I can and it's usually the same refs that are making dubious decisions. I don't mind a new ref at a game and making plenty of mistakes, for both sides, because the guy has to learn, has to get experience and that's fine I have no problem with that, it's the same experienced refs who change their interpretation of the rules during a game that are making a mockery of our game.
Unfortunately this will never change while they adopt the closed shop attitude and fine coaches for speaking out, again another archaic attitude that needs stamping out.

I just think at times it fuels the 'refs are against my team' argument when certain Ref's tend to not award penalties to one particular team - hence Bentham with us, no one can tell me that of the 12,13 penalties of whatever he gave against us that Rovers only did 2 things worthy of a penalty all game - We have already highlighted 2 instances where he gave a penalty against us but when they did EXACTLY the same thing we didnt ???

And before Rovers fans start pulling us up for criticising just remember that chant we had to listen to last year !!!!!!

yeh that was all abit strange, the touch judge obviously thought it wasnt a try otherwise he wouldnt have called bentham over!

did his best not to give the taai try too , made sure he asked both touch judges before they said yes!

he didnt like us beating warringto did he

I thought it was the in-goal judge who told Bentham it was a knock-on, either way he ignored it and gave a try anyway - makes you wonder why we bother having assistants if the refs choose to ignore them anyway !!.