not picking on him, purely an observation. If you watch the whole game back and see how he marshals the line and certainly on 5th he looks pretty indecisive, as I said he will become at least a very good fb if not a top one but he needs the ability to be eased in rather than thrown in as first choice. Add to this your going to have talanoa who needs to readapt to rl and biggs who needs to learn the game and it'll be a lot of pressure on a young lad. As I say not a criticism just an obeervation.

I do see what you are saying but sometimes the thrown to the lions pays off, as it did with Crooks & Lineham only time will tell though, but he's willing to work at it & he has natural speed & very good awareness.

thankfully,no problems with my train down ,and enjoyed the game.only problems were on the way back home with disrupted train times.

just managed to watched the game back, first job Radford has to sort out is discipline! silly penalties could of cost us dear on friday night, all but 1 catalan try came off the back of penalties we gave them!

Well this is the first time I've had the opportunity to post my thoughts on the game so here goes...

Very pleased to get the two points. I thought we started poorly though and heaped pressure on ourselves by giving away so many penalties early on but once we calmed that down and managed to get our hands on the ball I thought we looked pretty good and our attacking play looked particularly impressive. Our new signings all did well and in Rankin I think we may have just found ourselves a very good player at half back.

My main negative has to be our collapse at the end. It felt like the players switched off having decided the match was won and it very nearly cost us.

Elima quite rightly charged but how did the referee miss it 5 games is no good to us now! www.newsnow.co.uk/A/696572714?-4338:2393

Elima quite rightly charged but how did the referee miss it 5 games is no good to us now! www.newsnow.co.uk/A/696572714?-4338:2393

Absolutely right for any one who watched that on the TV as we did when we got home or as you did as it happened I would say that it was instantly recognisable as a sending off offence. Whatever ban is given in these circumstances is no reward to the opposing team quite the contrary in fact, because they could have lost a player through it

Do you not think if the system we just commented on was used,bowen,soliola and elima would have all gone and rightly so ??

Unusual as it seems, I actually agree with you. Until the referees and RFL are consistent and punish such incidents immediately i.e sending off, then offending teams will continue to see the benefit of foul play rather than the team offended against. On report is just a cop out for weak referees who should at the minimum being sending players to the sinbin.

I was thinking that when Sam Moa was sent off for that infamous shoulder charge the video referee commented on the occurrence, but for me there is no doubt it was so obvious on each of those three occasions you mention that the commentators all said it should be off so there is little doubt the video referee would too. I think it would be a massive improvement myself.

You see the issue for me is that the offending team should be one man short for their transgression, thus giving an advantage to the opposition, waiting till the following Tuesday to ban the player might handicap his team but gives no advantage to the innocent opposition on the day, who as I said earlier might even be actually penalised themselves when a 'fouled against' player has to come off or continues with concussion or his movement restricted.

Would 10 mins in the sin bin for anybody put on report be a start ?

Most certainly would I think, but I can't see them budging, although if it was for all on reports it would certainly give an advantage to the other team for 10 minutes and its probably the best solution because they won't use the other idea (consulting with the video re on possible sending off's) because
they'll say there isn't a video referee at every game.

It at least shows we can agree occasionally. Cheers