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We can see how one eyed Rovers fans are. Booing a brilliant try.

Awful defence and poor goalkicking by Leigh, but also extraordinary performance by Kendall with a try given to Holroyd after using his own man as a shield and Joffa having the ball ripped out given as a knock on.

David Cain on the podcast Rugby League Raw is organising a trip for all his members to sit together at the Grand Final. However, there is a problem in getting all the Superleague teams represented. St. Helens are one of 3 teams not represented as members. Could one of you help him out? By the way did you know Warrington have got a few injuries??!!

That decision on the ball steal was as clear as day with the Sky cameras, so your comment is irrelevant.

Except in this case the way they check whether a try is scored is fast superior and quicker than what we do.

In Aussie a try is automatically checked, as it should be here.

Why did that need a captain’s challenge?! It should automatically checked by the video ref.

Report this morning in the Mirror that Lam may bring back O’Brien next week. Please don’t!! Ben was MOM with 2 exquisite inside passes resulting in 12 of our points. He deserves to keep his place and play for his dad next week.

He threw the first punch ev n though it missed

Why has Minchella got off Scot free?

One of the more ironic happenings this season is the now almost weekly moanings by David Cain and Reg Nixon about Warrington’s extensive injury list. Last season all we heard from Reggie in particular was a regular comment saying something like ‘oh have Saints got some injuries, I’ve not heard anything about that!’ What a change around this season! They routinely name every injury when reviewing Wire matches now. No wonder all the members put up for podcasts like final whistle never include Saints fans!!

Move the women’s match! We all know it’s going to be Wigan winning it by over 40 points for the next 10 years!

Should Sneyd have been given the Lance Todd Trophy? Yes his kicking in general was excellent, but that near the Rovers line on the 5th was generally poor. The old adage of coming away with something even 1 point was never more evident in this game. He never once attempted a drop goal during the full 80 minutes. Can you imagine Alex Murphy declining to do this or Lee Briers? 2 drops would have at least secured a draw, while even a 1 pointer would have put immense pressure on that final Lewis conversion.

We loin says only an attacking player can ground the ball with his torso/ hand -is this correct?

Panic over! Managed to buy it at 5 o clock!

I have been trying on my Our League account to pay to watch tomorrow’s Giants v Leopards game before it increases in price tomorrow. However it still has a padlock on it and only allows to buy a season pass. why is this?!!

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This morning was a shining example of how to speed up video ref decisions. In the Raiders v Titans, the referee gave what he thought was a try to the Titans. But just before the conversion was taken, the bunker had detected that the player had bounced the ball over the tryline - all done within 2 minutes. Meanwhile we have to go through watching even obvious put downs from all angles in order to have a reason to disallow.

Why have we got a well known union commentator Rupert Cox calling this match?! He’s already called an HIA as HIS for some reason!

Hughes saved a certain tryjust before the break, forcing Thewlis a winger back inside.

Why is this not on Sunday instead of Friday? Leigh with a 5 day turnaround after a bruising semi final while Wigan rested for 2 weeks.

Almost every week the League Express reporters on every Superleague game are being criticised on the Rugby League Raw podcast for their 3/2/1 selections for the Albert Goldthorpe medal. Chief ringleader David Cain basically claims the reporters only give the 3 points to the gloryhunting half backs rather than the grunt from the forwards who lay down the opportunities for the backs to exploit. To be fair Herman Ese Ese is 2nd in both Man of Steel and Rugby League Raw lists, but is only 8th on the Albert, with only 7 points. Additionally, all the top 5 of Connor, Field, Sezer, Lam and Lewis are all the star players for each team they play for. So has Cain got a point, and has Martyn Sadler got an opinion on this?

Oh no he didn’t

Agreed wholeheartedly, Bailey should have been full back and Armstrong centre in place of patently unfit Hanley.

Memo to Adrian Lam-you don’t win big matches without a recognised goalkicker. For 2 seasons now we haven’t had one. We need a goalkicking half back desperately. What disappointed me yesterday was the Wire players constantly throwing their hands up when one of their players was being tackled. Also not one 6 again was given against them when Leigh were getting on top 2nd half.