Fri 3rd May: SL: Huddersfield Giants v Salford Red Devils KO 19:45 (Sky/SuperLeague+)

[Padge]

Rowley only coaches running, passing and tackling. He doesn't seem to coach bird impersonating, 

It seems to work well.

[Just Browny]

Garbage decision. Nothing in that, and anything there was was instigated by Lafai.

[StandOffHalf]

Pretty harsh to march young Wallis for rubbing his forehead into Lafai.. It wasn't a headbutt.

Just a penalty IMO. That's killed this game off.

Edited May 3 by StandOffHalf

[Andrewj]

Bit unfair that one..

[Padge]

3 minutes ago, Just Browny said:

Garbage decision. Nothing in that, and anything there was was instigated by Lafai.

Retaliator etc. etc.

[doc]

Refs need better pockets to pull cards from.

[Just Browny]

Just now, Padge said:

Retaliator etc. etc.

Yep, we reward head-rubbing, gloating gobsh*tes.

[StandOffHalf]

Somewhat less questionable than the obstruction in the first half, but I think that's a call that Hudds can feel went against them..

Bodies across the field and Lolohea ia allowed to be there.

Play on, for me. Marsters stepping through the bodies up the middle.

Edited May 3 by StandOffHalf

[StandOffHalf]

I thought they were going to disallow that for Lolohea, but probably just about enough to ground the ball.

We might have a comeback on. They need to move the ball to their edges.

[Futtocks]

Huddersfield having a go at winning it in the last 5 minutes.

[StandOffHalf]

A bit like the Tongan comeback versus England in 2017, if Hudds can get one more this set?

[Just Browny]

It's a bit of a shame Swift couldnt BA to try to run a bit further towards the posts when he scored, would be game on.

[Futtocks]

All of a sudden, it's 14:18.

[StandOffHalf]

One set for Hudds to go 100 yards and win the game. Give it to Tui.

[doc]

Certainly picked the best game to watch!

[Futtocks]

What a conversion from Connor! A minute to find 2 points for the Giants.

[Padge]

Just now, doc said:

Certainly picked the best game to watch!

Seconded.

[Futtocks]

Salford got a massive scare at the end, but hung on.

[Henson Park Old Firm]

Salford white shirt seems to be a good omen

[StandOffHalf]

Excitement but Hudds needed something a little better on tackles 3 and 4, rather than firing a wide ball on tackle one. Not the way to address an all-or-nothing set at the death.

Salford deserved victors, despite the Hudds excitement in the closing 10 minutes.

[sentoffagain2]

        A minute left and Huddersfield play as if they are in front .They needed to throw the ball about after the first tackle to have any chance of scoring.Salford deserved it by more than 2 points.Disagteed with both obstruction calls on the disallowed tries.

[MZH]

Just seen the red card incident. Ridiculous. You wouldn't even get sent off for that in football.

[JohnM]

1 hour ago, StandOffHalf said:

Pretty harsh to march young Wallis for rubbing his forehead into Lafai.. It wasn't a headbutt.

Just a penalty IMO. That's killed this game off.

But....but.....did it? 

[StandOffHalf]

2 minutes ago, JohnM said:

But....but.....did it? 

I enjoyed the attempted comeback, heehee.

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

All teams - yes, including those I support - seem to think it is acceptable to try and wind up an opposition player who has just committed an error, such as a knock-on.  It was this that led to the sending off at Huddersfield tonight.

On another thread, I recently said that, of all the sports about the rules of which I have a reasonable knowledge,  RL is unique in being the only one in which some laws are just arbitrarily ignored.

A player is guilty of misconduct if he  "behaves in any way contrary to the true spirit of the game."   If refs routinely enforced this by penalising the wind-up merchants, the problem would soon disappear.  Why don't they, I wonder.