It's definitely going to be a bit of a grind over the next month I think.

I think the referee had a repetitive strain injury to his card brandishing arm by that stage and he didnt want to risk further aggravating it.

We should have expected it with ramsay bolton in charge of fev

You were alluding to posters on here not the ones 'out there playing' to my original comment about Hull being a disgrace discipline wise, someone replied to you stating that it won't be long until you are with the injuries and bans, so I replied that Rovers aren't too far behind in that department (injuries anyway!) And that posters on here from either side would have shown better discipline than tonight..

How neither the onfield ref or Bentham deemed that just a penalty for 'a mistimed tackle' god only knows. That decision then set the tone for the rest of the game. Had Shaul not had his arms up to catch the ball he'd have likely had his head taken off. The ref needed to show authority at that point and failed. The yellow cards after that were a joke and made a mockery of the earlier decision not to use the card. No point throwing cards around like confetti afterwards either as it just fuelled the nigglely stuff. We got dragged into the scrap that Featherstone seemed to want late on, Faramino was dumb and needs to be smarter.

Costly win all round really.

If we can just somehow grind out a win next week (Rovers have plenty of problems themselves remember), Warrington is effectively a free hit and then hopefully a few will be back for the week after. We might just be able to ride it out ok.

Fingers crossed the disciplinary are kind to us and that a couple of the injuries arent as bad as they looked.

Radford's thoughts

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One of his better ones

Connor didn't have the sense to talk to him, Hock wouldn't have understood but instead tried to rough him up and gave him a facial. I think Radford advised Connor to stay clear in the 2nd half because he certainly did.

you cant say radders doesnt tell it as it is

I wouldn’t have liked to of been whoever it was who threw the ball at Litten , because he didn’t sound like he would be backwards in coming forward to them in the bar after the game. He seemed a tad annoyed about a few of the fev lot

Ref and Bentham should be charged with bringing game into disrepute, absolute shocker and knowing what we do about contact sport (any level, any country) it was entirely predictable what was going to happen, and it did.
His failure and that's what it was, steered the course of the game, FC should ask the RFL to investigate both he and Bentham, that early decision can only have happened due to intervention from elsewhere (keep the game close/not a runaway) or the official is bent/has a personal agenda or simply not fit to officiate in any capacity.
Not surprised Radford is furious, our fans and AP should be too.

As for Hock, he's not a sandwich short of a picnic, more like no rug, no basket, no pickled onions, no fizzy pop, nothing.

He certainly looked like he was about to give a card but then got a word in his ear. The contact was ok, so I would have been ok with it not being a red, but to show no card when the ball was so far away is a ridiculous decision.

It was just a horrible, spiteful game. Once Fev knew they couldnt handle us legally the niggle started, then the niggle turned into thuggery, and then we started to react and both teams just dragged each other down and down until the last 10 minutes was farcical. Had there been another 5 minutes left to play it could easily have ended up abandoned.

It was probably kind of entertaining for the neutral, but hope I never see Hull involved in another game like that again tbh.