Very early days in this tie but it’s looking likely we will be playing Leeds, based on last night you would think we should be confident of the win but Leeds are finding ways to win under Smith and they hammered us a few weeks ago without looking that great. A couple of months ago I thought it was a banker for us and Saints in the final but it’s potentially going to be the 2 form teams playing away in the semis and I certainly wouldn’t write off Salford if they get through and play Saints.

Wigan Salford.

RG called it a few weeks ago.

No Croft next week is huge and a massive boost for Saints

Croft failed his HIA ruling him out for next week. Certainly changes the complexion

Huddersfield have been abysmal today, as poor we were last season.
That said, Salford clearly the better team and fully deserve a semi final place.

Well, he is terrible. By contrast, I think Hicks did a pretty good job this afternoon.

Child was the wrong appointment for the play offs. Last week was his first game back after being stood down for 6 weeks following the officiating shambles in the Leeds/Wigan fixture at Headingly.

He simply isn't good enough for play off or semi final rugby. His appointment to the C Cup final was an utter disaster especially after his abysmal game in the Cup Semi. His appointment to last night game was even worse. He proved it by only refereeing one team.

Don't disagree. The much-maligned Hicks is a much better ref.

As long as we don't get Liam Moore I don't care who the ref is

Genuine question about the rules - is there still one for ungentlemanly conduct?

The reason is ask is Bentley. Now he didn't actually do anything wrong on Friday, but he was in everyone's ear, antagonising and, in some respects, masterfully playing opposition players. Surely the refs aren't that dumb (maybe they probably are) that they can't realise that he's not helping matters and making their jobs harder.

Bentley, like Connor, is a repeat offender. Time and time again however, it's the person who reacts who gets the penalty against them.

Being in someone's ear is part of the game. More fool the people that react.

Unless he is forcing them to react with cheap shots and facials etc then nothing wrong a few verbals for me.

Apart from the attempted punch on Micky Mac before the Pearce sin-binning.

Bentley dropped his elbow in to a players face on the floor (McMeekan was it?) and will be lucky to be playing Friday from the replay I saw. Leeds are probably owed one from the disciplinary though given the ridiculous Martin ban, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that comes this week.