Dureau is KO and Bentham is laughing...

Great result for you guys today, dont know much about your squad but with Greenshields injured what 17 do you reckon will be playing at wigan on friday?

Stacul have made an excellent game at fb, his real position. He scored a try against Warrington.

My team :

Stacul - Blanch, Baile (Farrar), Millard, Vaccari - Farrar (Bosc), Dureau - Ferriol, Henderson, Casty - Menzies, Raguin - Mounis

Subs : Pelissier (one of the best players against Wires, only 19), Baitieri, Simon, Martins

Type Phil Bentham into Google and his birthplace gives the game away, how he is allowed to have anything at all to do with Warrington games is beyond me

Ask any Warrington fan and they will confirm Bentham gives Warrington nothing. Must say that he was very bad with calls both ways (well, I suppose that means we have consistency if nothing else). Catalans were worthy winner against a Warrington side who simply did not turn up.

Greeny's out for 3mths while Dureau's scans showed nothing serious & could play Friday night

Re the hometown referee debate. The day I think any ref is biased towards his home team is the day I give up watching sport. But there seems little to be gained by even having the possibility of it happening by giving refs games involving their home town team. It's about being seen to be doing it properly as much as it is actually doing it.
Name me another sport where this happens.

This is about the 5th board i have had to post this on - Bentham is from LEIGH!!! not warrington.

My issue is he wasn't consistant yesterday, he was totally biassed towards Warrington. Every 50-50 call went in their favour, and I lost count of how many decisions he pulled from his @r$€ hole throughout.

James Child got slated for giving 27 penalties on Friday, well Bentham gave 26 yesterday, 17-9 in Warrington's favour, Catalan weren't 8 penalties dirtier than Warrington. There was NO consistancy in his performance, but it will get brushed under the carpet!

No charge against Carvell to have send Dureau at hospital and Ian Henderson reported two times. www.therfl.co.uk/disciplinary/item?2483 Shame.

No charge against Carvell to have send Dureau at hospital and Ian Henderson reported two times. www.therfl.co.uk/disciplinary/item?2483 Shame.

Bosc flys out to join the team tomorrow

For what it's worth, Bentham is only considered a Warrington official by a few hundred yards and is actually a lifelong Leigh fan.

The point still stands. Same with Ganson and St Helens, Alibert with Toulouse etc etc. It doesn't need to happen even if I understand the argument that it shouldn't matter where a ref is from.

Certainly don't disagree with what you're saying, John. I think a lot of this will stem from Cummings' time as an official when he was listed as a Widnes official (and called a "Scouse b@stard" accordingly) when he was actually from Whitehaven originally.

On a different note, how can the entire RL media mistake Cyril Stacul for Daryl Millard?

So, Dragons beat form team of competition, Carvell takes out cheeky half back, Clint gets injured again while making history with his 100th appearance for the club, more reffing controversy, Crusaders win too.

Good to see I haven't missed much while away!