I'd be in favour of giving Hoy a game in the halves as we need a bit of a spark of creativity to beat Saints and in all honesty, McNamara doesn't have that. Trueman and Hoy in the halves would be unpredictable and adding Litten in at 1 would at least give us an exciting 1/6/7 combo.

Hoy at halfback could also open his game up and boost his attacking confidence (which we saw at Magic) - if he could chime in a la Jai Field at 1 with Trueman and Clifford then we'd have the nucleus of a very good team - just needs the rest of the side to be built around those three and a new hooker.

Hoy looks like a real confidence player and if he picks up an assist in a game you'd back him to do the same again not soon after.

Be interesting to see the transcript. I am sure the club have requested the audio from the referee mic

Common sense regarding Fash's tackle, no mention of Batchelors clear shoulder charge...

And how about Walmsleys knees on Trueman?

Just shows that they both talk absolute poop, I said at the time you only have to look at Fash to see both his arms are trapped in between his body and Percivals, even Percival had hold of Fash so how any of those eejits on the BBC couldn't see that just shows they lack any credence and ability to be impartial.

Think it’s a vicious cycle with refs. The more they face dissent and consequence, the harder recruitment and retention gets, and the standard drops even lower. We really are in a sorry state when Thaler is the best ref now.