daz39

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Really ?

Harry Potter is a Giants fan

No it encourages on field officials to use their own judgement and make their own decisions and back them, as used to be and still has to be in 4 out of 6 games every week !!

They'll be telling us next saints 'earned' the right to choose the Ref for being so good !!

Watch the 2009 final and see if you thought Huddersfield were hard done to in that game, 99% of our supporters and club officials thought so but we moved on, had to accept it and didn't bleat and moan about it. All teams have bad calls go against them and this wasn't even a bad/wrong call it's just been perceived that way since Mac had his sour grape rant about it.

So why don't we just do away with on field officials and stop play after every potential try/penalty/knock on and ask a man in a van to decide, the VR is there IF a referee is not sure, why the hell would he use it if he's made his decision, that's what he's there for in the 1st place - to make decisions !!!! your argument is daft and you know it but you are looking for bites.

He played on as he was given the all clear, and unfortunately got injured again at the next tackle at which point the Salford fans booed when he went down, i presume as they suspected he was 'pretending'?

You do know why he threw the ball at him don't you and if so do you not think the Salford players misdemeanour was worse and deserved a yellow too?

I've been going to Perpignan for 12 years now and i'm still discovering new bars and restaurants as well as our old favourites, and not once have i seen any Fartowner throwing a punch at a local !

Bang on, i'd rather spend post match in Perpignan with 30-40 rather than the hundreds who pop up for a game during their pi** up, sorry holiday. Would hate them to hang around in the town and spoil it, mind you 99% of them think Perpignan only has 1 bar and that's in 'the square'

Think you could have chosen your title a bit different then to maybe something like 'alternative England team containing 1 or 2 new faces' rather than fresh blood

half of them are already in the team ??

As i say, most who stay in Perpignan respect it, never stayed in Lloret as that kind of thing doesn't appeal to me or my group but i can imagine what kind of place it is and the people it attracts, maybe that's where the idiots were staying, or it could be a coincidence the trouble left when the 'beer buses' did.

Not all, some of us stay in and respect the city of Perpignan, it's people and it's cultures and have no thoughts on commiting acts of violence - and yes we drink all day there too sometimes. Maybe it''s just the mentality of the individuals involved ?