Seems our friendly neighbours are getting restless again! Cheating and having the french ref in our back pocket! viewtopic.php?f=33&t=461798

Seems our friendly neighbours are getting restless again! Cheating and having the french ref in our back pocket! viewtopic.php?f=33&t=461798

Gawd bless 'em.

You know I have always argued that Maurice had it right when he suggested that only one Calderdale team should have been admitted to Superleague, he suggested an amalgamation of Castleford, Wakefield and Featherstone and I could see nothing to argue against in that.

Now I'm not so sure.

Can you imagine how bad the bitching and whining would be if all of those supporters stood on the same terrace under the "Calder" banner ?

Jesus wept it would be like having 3000 pre-menstrual women in your ear every week.

who they going to blame when they loose thier super league licence

Leeds of course :S

Would that be the incident right at the end where the less talented Gidley brother MOVES OFF THE MARK by stepping forward over a flat-out McGuire and then rolling the ball on to him ?

Steve went entirely overboard there. The time left in the game was such that Saints wouldn't have had time for a kick to touch, and even an immediate tap left them no better off.

I agree totally. Gidley should have been penalised for moving at least a metre forward of the point of the tackle. Had he stayed where the tackle took place McGuitre wouldn't have "interfered".
Moving off the mark to obtain a quck ptb is something Saints over the years have developed into an art form & they nearly always seem to get away with it.
My other bugbear with them is a complete failure to be square at the ptb, especially if the FGB has been involved in the tackle. Silverwood penalised them for it once early on in the game then totally ignored even more blatant instances throughoutb the rest of the game.
We are not blameless in that regard but last night we did it much less than saints.
My seat in the Carnegie stand means that this offence is one of the easiest & most obvious to spot.

Quote ="darwoo11"Seems our friendly neighbours are getting restless again! Cheating and having the french ref in our back pocket! viewtopic.php?f=33&t=461798'" It doesn't take much to get a thread locked over there now does it?

Quote ="darwoo11"Seems our friendly neighbours are getting restless again! Cheating and having the french ref in our back pocket! viewtopic.php?f=33&t=461798'" It doesn't take much to get a thread locked over there now does it?

If that were the case, the same pairing of Silverwood reffing and the halibut video reffing at Odsal disallowed a try for a push on Donald by Nero. Now, look closely at the first Stains try and see who got pushed out of the way??

But we arent moaning are we. All part and parcel of the modern game we all love.