In fairness Thaler should not have let Leeds lift him off the ground and the first blow was by Ablett who shoved a hand in his face. Jamie Peacock used to regularly throw his fists around without being before the disciplinary committee, but he played for Leeds not against them.

Played some of our best rugby when Brough was missing last year.
Ellis thrived on being the main man and stepped up well.. yet went back into his shell afterwards.

Gaskell and Brierly will probably do the same. Like somebody said, we can't do much worse.

Maybe Broughy needs to learn a lesson and not get away with it. Watching our struggling side on the sidelines might make him think twice about self control... wether Ablett had it coming or not!

Ablett's been at it all his playing life, niggling at every opportunity not good enough to face anybody as both Wardle in the past and now Brough has proved, but a master at the sly digs from second and third man in the tackle, shame really for a good player.

Agree with first sentence,it was when Ellis and Jake Connor were the halfs combo, and also the decoy lines looked better organised with them two as the pivots.
Only prob was then too often it was a like a hot knife through butter with some of the edge d.

This is what will concern me with a halfs combo of Gazza & Brierley if that is what he goes with this weekend. All can do is hope these two could step up to the challenge.

What does that even mean? Because he's smart enough not to throw punches back at the idiots and get banned he's somehow 'not good enough'? Brough's lucky that the disciplinary were in a generous mood, three punches vs none, both got sin binned and only a one match ban is like winning the lottery in that situation.

You have to ask yourself why ablett gets punched so often.....