It was Capewell I think, and it would have been a yellow or red over here 4 weeks ago.

The ref let a lot go that he would have hung drawn and quartered for if he missed in a regular season game. Player welfare seemed to go out of the window. But the game could have been ruined or certainly heavily influenced if a team had ten minutes a man down.

There were sevral instances where players stayed down in a tackle to gain a penalty, and he just played on. The game was much better for it.

You hear commentators criticising teams if they dont take a short kick, the one for the first try was a shocker, unless you are behind with time running out for me its too much of a risk

Is it really, though? Teams seem to go for a short drop-out more often than not in the NRL these days. Coaches aren't fools.

It’s worked for them all year, why capewell didn’t dive on the ball when farnworth tapped it back I’ll never know.

I get it if you're chasing the game or it's part way through as it's a 50:50 chance you get it back. But with the oppo 4 points off a draw, they couldn't level with a drop out, so just trust your defence from 50 yards out for one set.

Brisbane hd the forwards to take them away from their own line on the next.