The Blues Ox

By the sounds of it Leigh only turned up with 14 players for this game despite naming a full team. Not sure why the game was abandoned when Leigh dropped to 12 for player welfare concerns, I can only imagine it makes no difference for either teams league standings.

Exactly as WR says. Those points sound good but in the wider context it won't be enough to take York in to the top 12 on the IMG rankings and who out of the bottom 2 is the chosen one to be relegated will not be decided on points so its largely irrelevant.

I don't agree its as unstable as P&R simply because the RFL get to cherry pick who they want in and get to pick who they see as the worst of 2 clubs to be replaced by their favoured team. Yes its a complete shambles for the unlucky team but its not as random as promotion based on a grand final. A lot of the problem stems from setting the bar so low for the grades. When a club like Cas can manipulate the criteria to achieve an A grade then its a problem. Nothing against Cas but they are nowhere near the elite in our game and that is what A grades should be reserved for.

Again though there are 2/3 A grade clubs below them in the table, and Bradford who we know won't be removed so although it isn't nothing, it is almost irrelevant.

I'm not the person to ask. I agree its ludicrous but that is the talk in the game. London make it in on the panel review which means one out of the bottom two teams in the rankings will be replaced, York will be one of those two and at a guess Toulouse will be the other. Is it realistic to think Toulouse get the boot?

It is when the players start replying with "Who is the video ref?" that we need to start to worry.

Especially one whose team has just been promoted to the big time only recently.

It also begs the question as well, with it likely York will be coming back down, how will they approach it? Where does it leave their reserve team, infact where does it leave them anyway if new owners do take over. Presuming they are not in the top 12, how will they ever break in to that?

Begs the question regarding player welfare when a number of teams are physically and mentally not up to playing at this level. Not sure what the answer is but it also becomes a health and safety issue when players are clearly out of their depths. Split to 4 teams?

Hahaha how on earth does he get over to PLT? He needs to then get through his team mate who is also sliding. There is no obstruction there.

How is that play the ball much different from 9/10 that we see. The rules of our game are a mess at the moment or at least the way they are interpreted.

Lack of common sense in our game.

Yeah totally irrelevant if its a loose carry or not, it went backwards. I hate this about our game where every dropped ball is seemingly a knock on and its a decision that could have cost Cas any chance in this game. If the ref had played on I think Cas scored as well.

No knock on there, ball comes out backwards and Leigh players hand sends the ball back towards the leigh line. Should have been play on. Not sure of the point of the CC when they can get basic ones wrong like that.

New interpretation of the tackled in the air rule there. You can now put hands on a player in the air trying to catch the ball.