Bad 80 in all areas for the lad but if he scores the winner next week it'll all be forgotten.

Plenty of others were absent tonight, in particular Flanagan.

I am sure they are behind the scenes.

Indeed. KC's comments last week make it difficult for him to be too visible with his views on the incident:

"It's unfortunate that it's happened and it's happened to my players this year, I just don't go into the press (conference) whinging about it.

"It's rugby league, it's a contact sport."

Well, you can get mad or get even. They clearly went out to rattle him and put him off his game, I imagine the sledging was pretty intense too. The lad who hit him late and high should have seen red but the ref let us down , that aside Burns best way to shove the attention back down their throats would have been to turn our forward dominance into the comfortable win it should have been.

I don't disagree, my point is just that it's easier to react in the way you suggest when your head hasn't been scrambled and you're not checking your face every few minutes for cracks.

Very true, his face looked a mess at the end of the game anyone would have thought we'd just played Wigan