Vinty "blew us away" really?? Go on I'll bite



Well deserved win for you guys no doubt, early doors we had enough possession to score, but, didn't well defended or poor attack probably a mixture of both and the score just before half time gave us too much to do in the second half, although Ormsby keeps hold, or Russell takes the pass and we complete that set, or England goes over errmm we are back in it, hardly a shallalacking



I won't comment about the plastic pitch, TS resting a few, video reffing or not as the case may be blah de blah.....a deserved win for you WELL DONE as you were up for it and took your chances, but, "blew us away" not this year IMO

It is too sanitised.



Too many players are taking offence to getting hit hard. It's like a big hit means you cry and moan at the ref that it should have been a penalty or there'll be push'n'shove handbags. It's a collision sport, sometimes you're going to get creamed; take it. This is not football.



The shoulder charge rule is ing ridiculous. The rules were right as they were - late or high, or dangerous of any description, shoulder charges were punishable offences anyway. Now there are half a dozen perfectly fantastic, should-be legal, smashes penalised every week. Look at the shoulder charge rule, then look at the way players run in with the ball - players running into collision are shoulder charging the defenders in exactly the same way that defenders do when they get penalised. The only difference is that they have the ball. What's that about? It just shows that the shoulder charge rule is a farce.



A little bit of fisty cuffs results in suspension. If someone wants a scrap, just let them go at it for a bit then sin bin the pair and leave it at that. The crowd love it, many of the players used to love it (although some of today's players might go and hide behind the ref)...punish the dangerous and over zealous stuff, but if two lads just want a scrap; let them have it!



The game's gone soft.



It isn't boring though. There are still some epic games. Just not enough biff.



The coverage of the game doesn't help. I think Sky have an agenda to sanitise the sport. They make a big deal over absolutely nothing at times. Luke adorn had the Sinfield head shove right in his list match interview "these things happen, no hard feelings"...yet Sky made it seem he actually head butted him and broke his jaw or something. They completely overreacted. They also overreacted to how Catalans played against Wigan the other week. Yes, they were overphyscial and crossed a few boundaries but Sky made out they were a disgrace. Then you had Crosby taking offence to a completely non-dangerous tackle from Elima which was just a symptom of my first point about players not accepting getting smashed. There's too much of a big deal made of nothing incidents.







On another note there is too much aggressive swearing at the officials that goes completely unpunished every week. Two lads can't have a scrap, even if they both want it, but you can scream in the refs face calling him a ing twunt and nothing happens unless it's homophobic. That's wrong.

Not trying to wind anyone up Rico or troll either - just that the previous poster and his/her ilk really wind me up by their ignorance and arrogance. Maybe "blew you away" was a bit OTT, but no more so than he/her saying that you are miles ahead of us and nobody in Warrington cares when we beat you. Re the plastic pitch, most teams train on something similar, always makes for a good fast game, and at the end of the day, it's the same for both teams just like a muddy pitch when some teams adapt better than others.

RE Video reffing - all correct apart from disallowing Marsh's try for a non existent obstruction. Owens got away with one admittedly, but that was given by Bentham, not the video ref.

He sounds more excited than that to me.

As I see it, there is only one team playing rl from Cheshire and that's Chester wolves.

As you asked, no I don't. I only had Sky Sports for RL and I've cancelled it now.

Darts on tv ......now that is boring. A pub game turned into a sport by sky & a promoter. What next fishing contests & a Super 9s domino contests with action replays ?

TBH you have golf, snooker, test cricket and darts, all boring to watch but hugely popular on Sky as the media are all over it and thats what we need to do as people are sheep and fickle and will follow whatever the media tell them to follow!

I think you're right ha ha

I often agree with your posts but you and nine arches are wrong IMO I think it's a case of each to their own and I don't think people are that daft/easily led. One man's meat is another man's poison.



I love watching golf but that's because I play it, unfortunately badly, so I can appreciate/admire the skill. I wouldn't expect you to sit through it and gain the same level of enjoyment if its not for you turn over.



Darts on the other hand do me a favour......boring since the days of the crafty Cockney and Jockey Wilson etc proper characters playing an un-sanitised game glass of beer in one hand, fag in the other.



Perhaps this change is a reflection of society as a whole and partly why we've ended up with the game that we have in RL? You can't just blame Sky