Farrell was exceptional against Hull KR and also against Warrington last night. I can see no grounds for criticism.

Quite possibly. I think part of the silly penalties is he is still relatively young but given the age of our squad considered one of the senior players and has to cope with that.

In reality all forwards give silly penalties away from time to time. Warrington had one called Riley who was very generous last night.

I bet SW can. He will be having a word about the penalties IMO.

Most penalised player in the league. But has been quality so far.

Stats here. www.superleague.co.uk/report/9943 164 metres and 28 tackles.

Stats here. www.superleague.co.uk/report/9943 164 metres and 28 tackles.

exceptional player but seemed to give away too many pens last night

Just to clarify, yes he was outstanding in most areas of the game as he was last week.

My criticism is one aimed at his ability to give away a needless penalty at vital times during a game.

Against Hull KR he did it on several occasions and again last night he came up with 2 plays which brought Wire back into the game.

It is needless laying on that has crept into his game.

I thought some of the laying on calls were pretty harsh last night. At least 2 of them the tackled player had got up, played the ball and it had been passed from dummy half by the time Bentham blew for the penalty.

I'm not sure if it's something the refs have been told to clamp down on this season, but we definitely need to reduce the amount we give away.

Are the stats on the SL site correct? ie Farrell gave away 2 penalties?

I must admit that it seemed like more than that to me

lets face it, it the ref wants to penalise a team, to favour the home team, or to make it a bit closer he will pick on the easy stuff like lying-on, messing about at the ruck and not being square at the PTB. and if you are doing all them ok the ref will just say you're not back the 10.

No need to criticise Faz for this, if it wasnt him, they'd pick on someone else.

Agreed. Had him down as MOM last night.

Farrell & Bateman I thought were exceptional last night.

A player who gives his all every game, fits into our style perfectly and could well play for us for 15 years with luck as I can't see him going to Aus (would get sunburn) or Union. Having said all that, let's start a thread slagging him off.

Leads by example, and is certainly capable of being Captain once SOL calls it a day.

(MM will never be Skipper material for as long as he's got a hole in his a$$)