Farrell was square, but you cannot come round the ruck, even if no receiver, it is a little known rule that players and fans fall foul of regularly.....

it think it is a silly rule and if the team with the ball fail to get their act together at the PTB the defence should be able to take advantage

Yeah it does seem pretty stupid.

We should exploit it against Leeds by purposely not having a DH and rack up a load of penalties. Although no doubt it'll be a different ref and they would make a different decision...

Well I was made up with the win

The discipline which has been shocking, was greatly improved. Only 5 penalties?

Mossops display was very good as was Joel in the first half.

And am I the only one who thought Powell did ok?

Burke is ideally suited to playing 13 in our system IMO and I'd love to have him in the team now. He would organise that middle far better and get quality ball out to the backline.

He's another Hampshire for me in that I've never understood why he's not been given more opportunities. I was hugely impressed when he first broke in the first team. He played a few games and then got left out for one and that was pretty much that.

With Lockers injury record he should definitely be back with Wigan next year.

Quote Aboveusonlypie="Aboveusonlypie"Well I was made up with the win The discipline which has been shocking, was greatly improved. Only 5 penalties? Mossops display was very good as was Joel in the first half. And am I the only one who thought Powell did ok?'" Stats from last night. Impressive from Tony Clubb. www.superleague.co.uk/report/11058 We need to start putting the chances away, that game should have been out of sight by 20 points plus in the first half. Then Hull scored early on in the second half and the team (and crowd) got very nervous. Fair play to Matty Smith I thought he had a much better game last night, but I'm not sure if the Smith - Powell combination is the right one as they are similar players.

Quote Aboveusonlypie="Aboveusonlypie"Well I was made up with the win The discipline which has been shocking, was greatly improved. Only 5 penalties? Mossops display was very good as was Joel in the first half. And am I the only one who thought Powell did ok?'" Stats from last night. Impressive from Tony Clubb. www.superleague.co.uk/report/11058 We need to start putting the chances away, that game should have been out of sight by 20 points plus in the first half. Then Hull scored early on in the second half and the team (and crowd) got very nervous. Fair play to Matty Smith I thought he had a much better game last night, but I'm not sure if the Smith - Powell combination is the right one as they are similar players.

That's what concerns me about the pairing too. With both of those players the defence is never going to expect them to take them on because they are always expecting a pass. That's a great opportunity for them to actually take the line on and catch the defence out but neither really looks interested in doing that.
I didn't think Williams was doing a bad job at stand off considering he was playing behind a poor pack. Last night we actually had two props who were causing problems and so it's no surprise that we got a little more out of Smith, but I can't help but wonder whether we'd also have seen more from Williams.
I still think Hampshire and Williams would compliment Smith better than Powell as both can threaten with ball in hand and trouble defences.

I would have to see it again but I remember thinking that he wasn't square at the time before the penalty was blown. here is the proper wording of the rule you are referring to, which doesn't apply in yesterday's case because there was no dummy half

In their defence both Powell and Smith took the line on last night.

The ref signalled that Faz was not square. The penalty wasn't because he wasn't allowed to dive on the ball.

We won the same fixture last year 56-10.

The team then was Williams and Smith in the halves (no Green), Powell at hooker (swapping with Williams), Tierney at full-back and Jordan James one of the interchange props.

So what is the issue now? The team last night was as good as or even better than in last year's win.

hulls team?