Indiscipline, like losing, is habit forming.

It's much easier to get it right from week one of the season and stay on that path than it is to suddenly try and put it right when the important games come around.

this has been the straw I have been clutching at for a few weeks now, if one of the statos could bring together the penalty counts from the play off games for the last 2 years compared to the averages for the main season ones produced yesterday

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Not from the pictures I saw. The sarcastic clapping must have been off camera.

A thank you thumbs up gesture is what I saw from Tomkins.

Ganson is a law unto himself. He bins Tomkins (from Wigan is he?) for less than nothing and allows Jones-Buchanan to erupt in front of him late on at Wakefield and does nothing.

I used to think that and although it probably still applies for many mid-lower table teams I'm not so sure it's the case for the top ones. It seems to me that the better teams are focusing more & more on the playoffs, both mentally and physically. This goes right through the team's performance, from discipline though to commitment and fitness and has given the (in my opinion) erroneous impression that the league's becoming more even. Anyway, we'll know one way or another come the end of the season whether this theory holds water. I fully expect Leeds and Saints to be the main players, both having cut out disciplinary shortcomings and other frailties evident during the regular season.