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Sat 17th Feb: SL: Castleford Tigers v Wigan Warriors KO 5.30pm (Sky/BBC/SL+)

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John Drake
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Two people didn't read the above and have now been permanently kicked off the forum without further warning. Goodbye Wolfey Rovers and Bigboff. Zero tolerance for this sort of rubbish this s

JohnM
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Why? What have you done?  

Futtocks
Futtocks

Every first round of every single season, the referee cards someone correctly according to the rules as they stand. Every single time, a bunch of keyboard warriors post that "the game's gone".

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I'd support bans for those quoting every post they think is worth a ban, instead of using the report button!

As for the card situation, dropping someone on their head was the worst thing that happened in the first half, either the rules are wrong, or the officials have made a mistake.

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andyscoot

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Just now, Damien said:

Not the best of games and a scrappy first half. Obviously this is largely due to the terrible conditions. 

On the sending off for me it's not a sending off due to the way Dupree is dipping. There is some mitigation there for me. Watts doesn't help himself though by making no attempt to lower his body or wrap and he just leads with his shoulder. That probably saw him see red.

The ref alluded to such.

Ellis tackle early was low, with a player falling and contact with an arm that's wrapping. Watts is only slightly falling but no attempt to wrap.

The ref also suggested there was mitigation with the Smith incident but I didn't hear what it was. It seems whatever it was was sufficient to downgrade the red to a yellow.

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gingerjon

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Conditions look absolutely barbaric out there. Amazed we've got anything even like a game of rugby being played.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. (Terry Pratchett)

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5 minutes ago, gavin7094 said:

It is difficult to see for certain as it happened so fast but to me it looked like Westerman's initial contact was with Dupree's shoulder, which caused his head to bounce into Watts, who then barges into Dupree's head.

I thought it was pretty clear they both hit him in the head.

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Just now, Cheadle Leyther said:

What does a Wigan have to do to get sent off?

An entire town? 

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1 minute ago, andyscoot said:

The ref alluded to such.

Ellis tackle early was low, with a player falling and contact with an arm that's wrapping. Watts is only slightly falling but no attempt to wrap.

The ref also suggested there was mitigation with the Smith incident but I didn't hear what it was. It seems whatever it was was sufficient to downgrade the red to a yellow.

I believe he mentioned that the attacker in the Smith tackle did have momentum/diving slightly towards the ground. But I would have to re-watch it to actually hear.

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Just now, Hopie said:

Six nations ad, I'm turning this off 😛

It was very short, so I was able to unmute quite quickly.

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4 minutes ago, Hopie said:

Six nations ad, I'm turning this off 😛

Funny, saw that too and wondered, as someone who watches both codes on occasion, whether tonight's game had been trailed in the 6 nations coverage. Though I'm sure no-one will own up to watching 6N there must be someone on here who has Intel 'from a colleague / neighbour'

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1 minute ago, The Blues Ox said:

And a red coming up in the Cats game for similar tackle.

"All I'm asking for is consistency..."

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Just now, Click said:

Gosh, not sure if I have ever seen that penalty happen before in RL about "jumping into contact" But yeah, he definitely launches himself over the Cas player and into the other one.

Odd thing to do - it was a blatant penalty.

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Westerman clearly drops the ball forward, gets classed as backwards. So he feels he has to then drop the ball again 5 seconds later.

I am sure if Cas go onto lose this game they will use the cards as the reason, rather than the 10 dropped balls in Wigan's attacking zone.

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Futtocks

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Leeming down hurt with something ankular. Now he's up, but hobbling a bit.

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11 minutes ago, Click said:

I believe he mentioned that the attacker in the Smith tackle did have momentum/diving slightly towards the ground. But I would have to re-watch it to actually hear.

That was the explanation and it seemed a correct explanation based on what I saw

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Very neat by Marshal, good build up to.

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Forward 😀

With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

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