The Matautia ban is for the tackle on Field in the lead up to the first try?! Wow, I'm really struggling to see how that is a 1 match ban, it's a nothing tackle on someone (very effectively) taking the ball right into the line to commit a defender. Bizarre.

There must be 10-15 of those every game.

I've criticised Sione for some of his tackles this season but come on now.

8 bans from the weekends games. We’re back in ‘everything is a yellow, red and/or a ban’ territory. It’s all come from your game last week, when at least one and probably two red cards weren’t handed out, so we get the outrage over the week and then they flip back to early season decisions. We’ll have this for a few weeks now and then they’ll cave in to all the moaning and nothing will be a red/yellow/ban again and that cycle will be repeated until such a time the whole refereeing and disciplinary system is overhauled.

Sad but true.

We need the best players on the pitch and not up in the stands.

Something really bad (like some of Napa and Kane Evans antics this year, Powell crusher too) should get 1/2 games.

The product needs to stay as strong as possible and every club already gets enough injuries.

Sort it out with fines they’d soon stop it.

It's a farce. If this was amateur rugby league, clubs would not be able to fulfill their fixtures.

Well, it can't have been that bad as nobody picked up on it during the game. It is virtually impossible to pull out of some of these tackles, slowing the offence in slow motion does nobody any favours.

Not surprising to hear, but Singo wouldn't make my starting 17. Three games, with Ellis back (hopefully), is a god send imo

Ellis & Byrne to start. Mago and Havard on the bench. Also start Smithies and move Isa to bench instead of Shorrocks.

But some of these so-called offences don't even warrant a trip to the disciplinary and if they do there is absolutely no consistency in the action the committee are taking. Powell gets a long ban for a crusher, which I agree with, whilst Fash commits the same offence and does not even receive a ban! It's ludicrous.

A lot of positives to take out of saturday IMO. We played pretty poorly for the majority of the game, much like in the cup final, with an error strewn display. However, this time we weren’t able to pull it off and Saints were deserved winners.

We looked really comfortable after 40 mins, considering the amount of ball Saints had due to our errors. I think if we have an even share of ball against them, we win. That being said, important lessons to be learned, and we would rather it happen at Magic than in the play offs.

I walked away from the game really positive about our chances for further silverware this season. I am convinced we will meet them in a one-off game in the play offs and it might just be the best game yet between the two sides this season.

The less said about the refereeing calls the better. We definitely had some really poor calls against us (no try before half time, Welbsy try and the Singleton red).

What was wrong with the Welsby try?.

I think it's the LMS knock on that was missed he's referring to.

Unless I missed them there were no in goal touch judges.

I found this very strange as there were a few calls throughout the day which would have been assisted by another set of eyes.

I’m assuming this was because all teams had the screen, however there were a few 50/50 calls in the lead up to tries where an in goal touch judge would have been useful and in a good position to provide some valid input.

They don't use them with a VR, but it seems strange not to have as many eyes as possible. You can still use the technology (not that it seems to matter) but maybe refs wouldn't be so reliant on it if they had that little bit more help.

LMS knocked Batemans offload on. Incredible it wasn’t checked tbh. I saw Ian Smith trying to say it went backwards on social media, which was pushing ‘backing your mates’ too far. LMS hand goes forward in to the ball as he’s falling and he dives past where it lands but it’s absolutely a knock on.

I’m not sure it alters the result mins. The better side won on the day and Saints got what I felt they deserved over the 80 minutes.

I've not watched the game back, but on the day Bateman was going nuts at the ref and pointing back to the play. He must have been asking him to check something. The ref just shook his head and said no.

Like I've been saying for years, they couldn't care less about getting it right. They are their for their own egos and benefit. The sooner SL bring in a captain's challenge the better. We need to take as much power off them as possible.