Dave T

I'd say it if it's the other way so I'll say it, but it's poor of the BBC to have a current Wire player as a pundit.

We were very slow to get organised after Thewlis break. Heat taking it out of them.

Very good Wire. Pretty dominant outside of that first minute.

When is holding down a 6 again vs penalty?

Vaughan just taking charge of this match!!!!

Vaughan with a couple of nice offloads so far. Great from Thewlis and Tai.

Well, this isn't the fairytale return for Sneyd yet!

Need to be careful we don't try too hard to make up for that start. Stick with the plan.

Ffs, losing to a team with a 0% possession stat!

10 minutes bigging up Sneyds kicking and then he gives an assist to Leigh with his first kick!!!

I tend to agree. Although this often happens when people dare disagree.

Nobody doubts that Australia are better than England. Again, you aren't telling anyone anything they don't know, you aren't some wise old sage. But what is telling is that you use an example of what you see as a 'minnow' beating England as a way of bashing them. In reality, Samoa and Tonga are up there competing nowadays. Tonga have beat GB, Aus and NZ in recent years, as well as England beating them three nil. Your refusal to acknowledge anything decent in England isn't you being wise or edgy, it's arrogant nonsense that is just rather dumb.

Well done KR. Pretty good semi final showing.

Whitehead is just a bit of a tool isn't he? He'll be lucky not to be binned for the way he's speaking to the ref.

I would say, that's been trimmed. That ball isn't on the ground at that point.

Yeah, I seemed to recall it from a Wire game, thought it was the Saints one tbh. And I thought it was right to be chalked off. Inside shoulder is still the tackler. It should be used as an indicator not a black and white rule.

Maybe, however it was only 15 minutes in and only one try. And now Catalans have now scored. It is game on in a semi final.

It seemed to be a way for him to get out of a tricky read. Terrible call imo.

There was a recent decision where the video ref clearly explained that the inside shoulder thing isn't a defence if the contact is substantial. That was substantial and he was four or five yards ahead of the ball. He doesn't have to be there. Crossing and defused by Catalans. No try on two counts imo.

I'm not sure why he couldn't work out whose hand that was!

The hand with no wrist tape puts that down first.

Hmm. Not sure on that read from Thaler.

And there we have that Aussie arrogance coming back to the forefront, looking down their nose at the likes of Samoa (despite apparently developing minnows in the RL world). The mask slips. Also completely ignoring that Tonga have beaten GB, Aus and NZ and Fiji have beaten the Kiwis too.

Correct. It was purely on the back of sustained bad behaviour at Old Trafford. They may have calmed the stance down now, but it was broadly a good change tbh imo.

Yes, everyone is aware of nostalgia.