It was short, it wasn't a try, I wouldn't have given it. But, the ref gave it, the video ref couldn't see enough to overturn it, four points, a well earned victory for us. Let's move on now love.

In some ways I'm glad leigh are doing well.
When they were coming up and playing in playoffs I didn't like their bullying style much but they seem to have that sorted with change of coach and are showing some skill.

Just like when Cas started doing well under Powell I wanted to beat them more than any other but in Leighs case it's more because they are competing for similar positions.
But equally, just like Cas they are a blue print for what we can do.
They have ensured the 8s process for a while which we will need if we have a bad season.
Without promotion we would never get back if we fall. Leigh have helped us there.

Leigh are a good side but they just cannot help but do the cheap shots on the opposition. On Thursday on the 20 minute mark Higham and a couple of others tackled David Fifita and as Higham got up he couldnt resist stamping on Fifitas ankle, I remarked at the time that it looked malicious but not many noticed it, so I checked when I got home and it was a definite stamp by him, fortunately it did not bother DF as we went on to score from that set, but it could easily have been a lot worse for our players. Higham had to draw his foot back to ensure he trod on him. The F.A. have just handed out a 6 match suspension for stamping , although it was worse than Highams but the RFL should outlaw the cheap shots.

It was a funny one - even on the replays, one angle looked a dead set try whilst the other looked short; and in any event, he was tackled in the air, so it could easily have been a penalty try had it been chalked off for being short.

You'd have to say there was a really strong case for a penalty try had he been judged to be short. He had caught the ball and was 3 yards from the line, would have been a shocker if he didn't score from there!!

Indeed - and it does seem to be the penalty du jour so far this season, so plenty of reason to believe it would have been given.

A fact that Mr Beaumont and some of the more rabid Leigh fans have conveniently ignored.

No way. He wouldn't have caught it had our guy not lifted him, a la RU line-out!

watching on TV from 13000 miles away... in real time it looked a try.... at least three camera angles put that in doubt... and a fifth seemed to show the ball on the line...

the crucial decision was the 'try' call from the ref

however... whilst I don't think the Leigh played would have conceded a penalty try (as he was not in the act of scoring/and he might still have been stopped by a legal tackle) ... it would certainly have been a penalty and probable sin-bin

that said ... the fish and chip paper said BJB scored... and the game was deservedly won.

Not sure if watching it on TV from 13,000 miles away is any different to watching it on TV from Lupset Estate, if one camera clearly shows the ball on the line then that makes the other cameras' redundant.
The referee's decision is always crucial as that one camera showed he got it right, as you say the fish and chip paper say's we won.

You still get served fish & chips in newspaper?! Those were the days - we get 'em in polysytrene trays, this side of the Pennines. And there's definitely nowt on them that says BJB scored!