St Helens Pre Match Chat

Quote: Armavinit "Having watched the game back, Gale’s red card was correct. Direct contact with his heel to the shin. No play acting on Lomax’s part. Could have been a leg breaker. I reckon a grade D and 4 matches. We were worried about keeping him fit, he’s going to have a few weeks off now.
Wynne’s yellow was very harsh, he’d let go by the time the Saints player’s shoulder hit the ground. Ligi Soa had a go at him for milking it.
A few observations on Kendall, the Saints scrum penalty was rubbish, Walmsley was stood up, in the scrum, it’s not the responsibility for FC to let him in and in actual fact FC had formed correctly. Walmsley’s none play the ball, rubbish. He stood up to play the ball dropped back to the ground without an FC player touching him, he does it regularly, stood up and Kendall told him to play on, he didn’t even play the ball. Kendall’s interpretation of six again has to be looked at. A lot of arbitrary decisions made but no consistency with Saints.
No excuses for that performance from FC. As I said in an earlier post, the coaching team need to sort discipline out before the Salford game. We’re going to have a few missing still, Sneyd’s likely to kick us to death, with the wealth of possession they’ll gain, from indiscipline.
Talentboy, I don’t know where your rugby knowledge derives from, you obviously have never played the game. By your own admission, you watched City up to quite recently, when you supposedly got fed up of the Allan’s. Time to go back now they have new owners, leave the forum and keep your abominable language to yourself.'"

The penalty at the scrum was for Houghton not binding rather than anything to do with the front row. I must confess though, I thought it was a differential penalty so couldn’t kick for goal…

The Walmsley non play the ball was the right call, it would have been a penalty for a voluntary tackle if Walmsley did play it, as the ball tackling arm never touched the ground, and to be fair, Kendall was screaming it was play on