Well if you really believe Dowes has only been rubbish for the last 4 years then IMO your opinion is complete bollox.

Hope they are not too fired up, need their game heads on and not purely adrenlin fuelled. The biggest danger to us is Dobson and his kicking game.

I can't wait either think it's gunna be a cracker hopefully Hame will get back to the form of the last few games would love to see Hame and Manu causing mayhem on their left and right, my only worry is that our boys could be knackered from the huge effort last week.

Well Hame and Radford won't be knackered

True. We've had 2 sendings off in the last 3 matches. Passion is all very well, but we need discipline and self-control if we are to win.

The reason why Bailey does not have to answer is that the RFl thought his actions were accidental as he was trying to regain his feet - although still provoking a response from Radford. Here is the summary from the original tribunal:

Following a Match Review Panel meeting held on 6 September 2010, you are charged with misconduct for a breach of Law 15.1(a) during the above Match. The Panel reviewed an incident which occurred in approximately the 10th minute of the Match. You were sent off following this incident. In the Panel’s opinion R intentionally struck his opponent. Whilst the Panel believed that R was provoked by his opponent’s actions in attempting a quick play the ball, that the confrontation was minor and the sending off had resulted in him missing a large proportion of the match, the punch was misconduct worthy of referral to the Tribunal

The Tansey one was an uncontrolled lift which could happen to anyone and the Radders one was a provoked reaction that didnt warrant a sending off. I dont think our discipline and self-control is anything to worry about.

I think it's ruined our chances of winning the fair play trophy though!

It doesn't matter why a player is sent off - the result is that you are left with 12 men and if we have another sending off we are likely to lose on Saturday.

It does matter when you're making out that we need to control our discipline. I'd agree with you if the sendings off previously showed a theme of dirtyness. The fact that both were unlucky made me disagree with your comment. We dont have a problem in that regard imo.

I think I probably agree with you more than you think Dave.

However it seems the referees don't agree with either of us.