And Dureau should have been back to 6, so Catalans would never have been 6 down anyway, maybe 12 down as, by your own logic, Leeds were pressuring the Catalans line. You can't say 'it would have changed the complexion of the game' as if that means the result alters, and while ignoring other, similar events.



And that decision's a joke, Fakir clearly raises the elbow as he enters the tackle, he is looking at Delaney's face and he guides his elbow in. It was a disgusting piece of play, not an attempt to fend or make a tackle, but to prevent himself from being tackled by injuring the tackler. No binning, let alone a ban, an absolute disgrace.

I'd also add that it was Fakir that, 30 seconds later, dragged Burrow down by the throat when he was otherwise through & in for a try. So that might have 'changed the complexion of the game'.

If you want to be harsh on-field, you've got to be harsh everywhere. The end result is that Leeds & Catalans both have a try chalked off, and are both a man down with 20 minutes to go.

Whilst this desciptin of events could well be true and paints a different scene than the one of Wane jumping on the microphone to demand his opposition players are banned, don't we remeber the day when a coach would have said something like
"We're concentrating on our own game, not on Danny McGuire."
?

"I dont think Danny should have faced any games - just like Micky shouldnt have faced any games. But once The RFL have gone down that avenue like with Micky, they have set a precedent."

He remains firmly on-message, in that the myth being peddled is that both players committed identical offences, when any fair-minded and vaguely sentient person can see that they didn't.

Hey ho - to use a few Stevoisms, it should be a 'humdinger' or indeed, a 'wow of a game.'

What myth? All that's being said is that neither player should have faced a ban, there's no hint of the same or even similar offences.

Just like the myth's that can be read in the last week about Wigan, on this very page there's the myth of Sean O' not tackling below the neck for example.

Can Burrow actually play the ball without crawling forward out of the tackle?

i hope the wait was worth it.