Excellent technique on show there. Lauitiiti round the ball and Bailey round the neck.

Bellamy went to all that trouble in a game he couldn't care less about (according to some...not me) what a coach.

I'm not even a Leeds fan but was gutted for them and their fans. I wanted to see a rugby game, not a wresting match!

My thoughts after the first few tackles was 'why is Silverwood reffing this game different to any superleague game of the last couple of years'. Was he under orders by the RFL to do that? We'd have had 4 or 5 penalties in the first few minutes normally, followed by a decent game.

Phil Clarke touched on it in commentary, but then the sky team backed off as though they'd had a warning not to 'detract from the occasion'.

Be interesting to see if Boots N All investigates tonight or whether we get the ususal sanitised drivel. Silverwood and Cummins should be asked to explain.

=#FF0000[size=200If[/size Boots 'N All has any purpose whatsoever it should be to analyse the WCC game with regards the interpretation at the play the ball.

Phil Clarke (not anyone else FFS) can explain the 'dominant' and 'surrender' calls of the official and compare the time taken to play the ball with those in the average SL fixture.

Lazy cowardly last man in the tackle cheapshot merchant

Funny how when DD and I posted that Super League was generally poor fare, viewing wise, last season because of the slowing down of the game, there were elements of the Leeds fans anxious to take that as an indication that Saints fans were bitter at the defeat in the GF

Now that Leeds have lost - under a return to the adaptation of the laws that were applied last season - the ref had a bad game.

Why am I not surprised.

If you genuinely thought that the speed of the play the ball on Sunday was similar to that of any SL season, you need to lay off the glue or stop watching games with your Sky+ slow motion on.

Probably because you are also confused and are trying to platt two different subjects into your very strange argument.

Poor viewing fare
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Different interpretation of rules for SL games & WCC game


Just to reiterate, I have not complained about the ref since sunday and IMO it was our inability to finish chances that cost us and nothing that silverwood did or didn't do.

Eddie, have you come down off the smack yet sunshine?

My post. the one you quoted, was about the issue of players talking to the media immediately after the match.

What does that have to do with the pathetic excuse making the fans of the "mighty S" have been making these last few years?

Anyway, as Andy Gilder has said, Sunday's game and the policing of the ruck bore no resemblance to any Super League game I have seen this year or last.

On Sky Sports News now, Senior has been charged with 'breaking operational rules' by the RFL

Do we know what happened to Daniel Anderson and Justin Morgan after their"opinions" were made public??

if i remember rightly Morgan was given a £4000 fine

Quote ="rhinoms"Do we know what happened to Daniel Anderson and Justin Morgan after their"opinions" were made public??'" www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... enior.html Just found out that Morgan was fined 4k with half suspended but no mention of Andersons punishment although i do remember Ian smith not reffing at KR for the rest of the season.

Quote ="rhinoms"Do we know what happened to Daniel Anderson and Justin Morgan after their"opinions" were made public??'" www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... enior.html Just found out that Morgan was fined 4k with half suspended but no mention of Andersons punishment although i do remember Ian smith not reffing at KR for the rest of the season.

Cheers mate i found a link as soon as i'd asked

not sure about anderson though would of thought be something similar to Morgan

Bloody hell, that was harsh punishment.

maybe we will get a similar decision that Silverwood cant ref a Leeds game

Silverwood's rule interpretations on Sunday night certainly looked very similar to the ones I had the misfortune of seeing last year.

This years comp has been noticeably better in that regard, and a major reason (IMO), why Leeds were bemused with the wrestle-a-thon on Sunday night. It was inconsistent with the opening rounds of this season.

Whereas DD and I were pretty straight as to our disatisfaction last year - monotony being just about the best word to describe the slugfests on offer - you were amongst the most bullish in your assertions that this wasnt the case. It was all fine and dandy in Sooper-dooper-league.

Leeds were out-bullied by Melbourne and sudddenly the game should administer greater attention to the play the ball according to some. Its laughable.

As I said, the only argument, and a pretty strong one to be fair, is that Silverwood applied a hell of a lot more tolerance to holding down than the opening rounds thus far.

As an FC fan I thought Silverwood was bordering on cheating in favour of the Storm. The amount of times he called "surrender" (therby giving the Storm the right to hold down for longer) when a Leeds player was tackled was ridiculous. He certainly didn't apply the same standards when the Storm players were being tackled. Still, you had the chances to win the game and unfortunately for you didn't take them which ultimately decided the result.

Last 2 of which you got your sorry sad asses whupped by a better team, Get over it, Silverwood reffed same for both teams which was novel, stop ya whinging ya starting to sound like your team, what with Sinfield, Peacock, Burrow, Diskin, Webb, Mcguire and now Senior at it.

ps we lost more recently than you in Challenge Cup Final if that's any help? nah nah na na nah hope we lose it before you do again

He had obviously advised BOTH teams that he would shout surrender and then Move and on the command move "Move" the player had to be able to play the ball.

You could argue that McGuire's try should not have stood as Delany who the ball came off was offside at the play the ball (Rules state that both feet of a player should be behind the try line, Delaney only had 1 foot behind the line) as such when the ball was kicked by him he was technically offside, no-one mentioned that one?

Silverwood was as good or as bad for both teams, it's over done and dusted the Storm have the cup. GET OVER IT!!!

Love this post, especially with the avatar, reminds me of the dog botherers.

Are you going to answer the question then?

When was the last time your boys had the chance to be world champions?

Errr We never had cos that comp wasn't around when we were winning the league!!! is that ok?

Your fking brilliant you are, you brought up last years CC final on the post above.