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$$)

Farrell's a machine, but sometimes you can see he's going to get penalised for lying on before the ref blows. Needs to get up a fraction earlier. All the forwards did well tbf. Bateman looks like he's going to be a good'un. Flower did some excellent stuff too.

nonsense

Farrell for me has been immense for the last few seasons, and I couldn't be happier about it as my old man always said he was too light and wouldn't make it, to which I argued, height has no issue when you can break the line as often and have a great leg drive and defence as good as his. It's nice to get one up on the old boy for once

But as other have said he has started laying on noticeably longer recently, even when the ref doesn't blow for it, I find myself shouting "get off him!!" after 25% of tackles he makes. Hope he sorts it out as he is consistently one of best performers and would be a shame to blot that with constant spoiling. Perhaps as said above, we rely on him too much and he does far too many minutes?

...would also like to point out, he isn't nearly as slow as getting out the play the ball area as Clubb, that dude just seems cumbersome to me.

Farrell really is a machine and obviously really puts the effort in in training. He does have a problem giving away stupid penalties but no player is perfect and with the sheer amount of work that he does he is always going to give away more than most.