Thinking more that BM is trying his hand at rotating Burrow and Sinny OR another at 9 and keep the bench more for utility with Keinhorst than bring in R Ward. I don't think that is such a bad idea as Burrow could play 30 minutes a half and when he is off we tighten up the game a little in the forwards.....yes not ideal but I think still a solid option with a stronger bench and cover

Just watched my recording of Friday nights match. The push on briscoe should have been penalised and the try disallowed.
Halls try also should have been chalked off, Sinfield clearly knocked on. So the end result stays the same.

Yes I think it's quite generous by the ref not to say Sinfield knocked on. The Briscoe push is annoying considering the same ref combo (Silverwood on pitch and Bentham as VR) ruled out Briscoe potential match winning try last year vs Hudds for that brush of shoulders with Brough when racing for the ball.

I disagree on both. The hands were on Briscoe but no pressure was on him. For me it had no affect on the ball being spilled.

As for the Sinfield knock on both ref and touch judge ruled it back in real time and no angle from the video replay suggested they were wrong

Indeed. Very generous to say that the ball was thrown or knocked in any direction other than towards his opponents’ dead ball line, when that's what happened.

A good tough hard earned and well deserved win imo.
Re-Sinfield in the build up to Halls try at worst the ball goes sideways so it's still not a knock on.
I can understand Mc'D's point re-the last 20 minutes the game was won and we just had to grind it out out but they'll learn from it.
Sinfield M.O.M but Hardaker must have been close as was JP imo ,i thought Stevie Ward had a very good hour considering he's been out a while & once again Garbutt was solid.
Onto teh cod-eads now and tbh i'd look at resting Cuthbo ,Hardaker Sinfield and Watkins yes i accept it would probably cost us the win but results have gone our way and now imo the focus has to be Wembley.