Get ready for the usual video referee 'TRY', which is blatently not and everybody can see its not, if saints are struggling after.

I do not think there are 4 refs up to it for the 4 games next week, 4 big games lets just hope the best teams win and we are not talking about refs this time next week, but I doubt it.

BRING BACK GANSON

The bit in bold makes no sense. However, Radford was provoked by this and, if the ref didn't see the elbow deserved the red. If not it should have been yellow.

I would argue, something like this should be an option for the video ref - but only where a player gets up and starts throwing punches where the ref thinks it's unprovoked. Having said that, anything that the ref sees as a red wouldn't be too bad for a review but a review where the ref can watch and the off field ref is providing advice and not the decision.

Can't recall any instance of a player simply starting to throw punches without some kind of provocation occurring first. Sometimes it may be the wrong player who ends up getting punched at (like the Fielden incident against Hudds), but there is always something else that leads up to the punches. That's why a straight red for one player and nothing for the other one is so baffling.

I'm still wondering how Wellens got away with doing exactly the same thing around 70 minutes in the game against Cas with nothing but a quick word from the ref...