They are a slow, old, overweight team and speed was always going to catch them out. The Cunningham and Pitts breaks from acting half back was something you only typically see on back fields at very low level.

The pitch is the least of there worries.

Love the Fev fans attitude, by there logic every game should be played on a neutral ground. Whingers! Home advantage is the same for every team, as you say Fev don’t have any advantage by knowing the effects of the slope on their pitch do they.
Can’t agree they are an overweight slow team, they showed what they are capable of in the second half against us.
Yep the artificial pitch gives us an advantage, that’s why we play home and away, but I think last two games for the future first real time we are showing we know how to play on it, we should be kicking 40/20s every game.

Richard Moore got a four match ban for his assault on James Cunningham.

Assault is an interesting phrase! What was the actual charge? Striking or punch

strike punch slap no matter what, Cunningham didn't ask for it or give permission for the offence so therefor it is technically assault.

dictionary definition
a. A violent physical attack, as with blows.
b. A strong or cutting verbal attack.

Not saying it’s acceptable that he threw a swinging arm and smacked him one, but by the definition virtually every tackle in Rugby league qualifies as an assault. He got the red he deserved for foul play,4 games some may see as light considering his record but all depends on what they saw on the video.
Where was the contact? Was it closed fist? Was it open palm? Etc etc
By you definition k Dixon carried out an assault when he threw the punch as well in the same game.
Flowers in the GF was assault, but if we start calling incidents like Moore assault then let’s all pack up and stop playing the game.

I think I had a reasonable view. It was a stiff arm aimed at the head and meant (in my opinion) to do damage to the player.

as to assault - if moore had done that on the high street and hit some across the head with an outstretched arm - then it would have constituted assault. on a rugby pitch, "violent conduct" or whatever it is called. He was appropriately sent off and given his track record lucky to only get 4 games, Cunningham was lucky that he wasn't knocked unconscious and therefore didn't miss any games

Brian, I agree, run up to someone in the street hit them in the midrift or legs and take them to the ground it would be assault. It’s rugby it’s it is a contact sport, what Moore did was break the rules of the game, like I say start calling it assault, which is a criminal offence then you can never play a contact sport.
He got caught he got punished, Cunningham played it well and stayed down, he didn’t have too he could have got up and retaliated.