Wellsy4HullFC

His foot was in the field of play. So, red card!

ABH standard Give over. The difference between the 2 is one was challenging for the ball and had no time to pull out. The other was going for a tackle and had time to adjust. It wasn't a sudden drop. The height is only an issue if it's a sudden change. It wasn't.

He's an attention seeker. He's trying to be controversial to get eyeballs on him and instead of calling him out, people are pacifying him, so he does it more.

For the record, Su's was a red because it was reckless force that he had time to reduce. I agree that he had little time to adjust his target, but he did have time to adjust his force. It wasn't a sudden drop.

Funny that...

Your job is to ask questions, not to agree on controversial answers that call into question the ref's competence and put words in the mouths of the viewers. It was more of a red card than Cust's last week.

Wilkin is just going on one at the moment. He's unbearable.

Jenna Brooks practically agreeing with Willie Peters that it wasn't a red is pretty unprofessional journalism!

The issue with these mergers is that they need a sense of identity, otherwise fans will not gravitate to them and they will very quickly die as an idea. They'd need to apply to join, and their application will surely need to come with evidence of fan support. Would a "West Yorkshire Giants" playing out of Halifax gain support? Or "North Manchester Hornets" playing out of Oldham? They're better prospects on paper geographically through association with bigger areas, but not necessarily in reality. I do think Oldham should tie-in with a casino though and go with Manchester Hold'ems

Olddale and Huddersfax it is then.

Think you've completely misunderstood what was being said if that's your take.

Really hope NZ2 is next. That would be huge for the international game. If it's not, I'm not sure when it will come. Can't see expansion beyond 20 for a very very long time unless there's another sudden influx of cash and players from this current expansion effort. Be interesting to see who would be considered next. Brisbane 3? Adelaide? Cairns? Darwin? Central Coast? Sunshine Coast? Out of interest, how have the traditional North Sydney fans responded to this? Happy they're back as a brand or annoyed they've been relocated?

Think your maths is a bit off...

Basically, they're trying to drag it along as long as possible, but we're at the point where the RFL are going to have to actually pay their own money. Now it's just a case of trying to make it as cheap as possible to not damage the game too much. If the players are going to leave, which is likely, then the cheapest option is for the rest of the league to loan players to the club to keep it going. I'm sure the teams fighting it out at the bottom may not be as willing to oblige, but the rest I'm sure won't have an issue.

Right, I'm trying to catch up with the latest as it appears something has happened (there's lots of people posting). I can't quite tell between the posts moaning about professionalism, other clubs, their own club, etc. What new has happened? Has the prospective takeover that everyone thought wasn't going to happen officially not happened?

A 19 Round NRL when it goes to 20 teams with 3 international weekends following weekend after each Origin match could be a goer. If you've got 8 southern rep teams playing in huge matches (NSW, QLD, NZ, PNG, CI, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa), that could make the NRL more money.

That could work. If you were to do it that way also, you could play more games at once rather than spread it over a number of weeks to reduce disruption. Again, other sports babe manage this to a much higher degree than rugby league. I just think it's a terrible e excuse.

I think you're making a huge assumption that your indiscipline was down to us going down to 12. I just don't buy it. It's like thinking Saints would have done better against Wigan in the GF in 2014 had Flower not got sent off in the second minute.

Do Origin players miss club games for weeks? I thought they backed up? Or at least missed one round each game? Could be wrong. Well obviously that wouldn't be possible, it would be one or the other in this scenario; and there are camps that believe you should only be able to represent Australia if you're in the SOO series. If there was actually a credible alternative to Origin, players wouldn't feel the need to switch between the two.

Posts like this show how someone who can be very reasonable can still post absolute nonsense when it comes to their rivals. Wakefield stuffed Leigh the other week then lost to them the week after. I'm sure you're aware things change week-to-week, but your judgement is clouded whenever you speak of your own club or your rivals. When it's both clubs, man we get comments as ridiculous as "we'd have stuffed them if they had all 13 instead of 12."

That absolutely infuriated me. We had a great spell of momentum, we'd just pinned them in their 30 before the kick. I even clocked Asiata was gonna go for it. He barely even hit him, but it was still enough and I've no complaints for the ref calling it. It was absolutely dumb play that drained all our momentum, cost us possession, have them a set of 6 in our 20 and ultimately led to a try. The difference between the teams was ultimately discipline. There were things that we did that were far better than what they did, and things they did that were far better than what we did. Got a lot of hope for the rest of the season compared to the start. We are not far off already.

Yeah, ok

We've won the same amount of trophies too.

Why? Other sports don't. Rugby union manages.

Again, I'm not suggesting all of the games are played at the same time, so I'm not sure how you'd need 6 starting lineups worth of players. If the NRL doesn't shut down for Origin involving 2 teams playing, why would it shut down a couple of weeks later for a different 2 teams?