What worried me in the request on the DF try was the fact that Hewer called play on, if the VR then says he was held,we would be penalised for playing to the whistle. He should have only asked for grounding if that was the issue, if that is possible within the ever changing VR rules.

Totally agree.
The ref called play on and the VR should only be able to check what happend after that.

I thought that at the time - if he calls play on, the player is always gonna keep going - I saw no merit in asking the VR to look at that, and if he'd decided that actually, the tackle was complete, what result do you award, given that the player followed the referee's instructions?

I'm in the same boat with the VR yesterday - the multiple attempts to find a sliver of TJ's foot in touch was painful - it was obvious from the 2nd replay that the try was legit - get on with it!

Is it still Alibert who does the VR for all of Catalans matches?

Whoever it was they were desperate to disallow both of those tries, or so it seemed to me anyway.

I said exactly the same as I was watching the game.

I have read it was Bentham? From what I have seen from games in France, the vr struggles to get the pictures he wants from the French TV...

Yes you are right, just had a look on the RFL site and it was Bentham. There certainly was a point that Alibert did every game for them, maybe that stopped after Thaler made him look like a t1t.

The VR was Scott Mikalauskas.

It was Misklauskas (sp?) according to TV

I've just watched the "incident" again (33rd - 34th minute of 2nd half) , Finn is about 20 yards away from it. Arona, Horo and Hampshire were involved in the tackle none of them were near Garcia's head with their hands. The more interesting thing is that after Catalan put the kick into the in goal, you can see Garcia start to rub his eye (well after the ruck is cleared).

Based on previous accusations of this nature, it doesn't appear you need conclusive video evidence to pick up a lengthy ban.... lets see what happens.

Yes the Scott Moore one still remains a mystery, other than it was him involved so he must have done it.

See if you can spot what looks like a chicken wing tackle on Baldwinson (I may of spelt it wrong)

C-H-I-C-K-E-N....No mate...you spelled it right

Found it mate..... "of" should be "have"