Clear as day , should get a long ban .

Our great sport has no room for thugs like him

Nothing will be done.

Sums up the culture at Toronto tbh.

The coach wants banning, track record of coaching thuggish tactics at two clubs.

Paul Rowley's house tactics on show to the world again.

Bussey was a complete house when Toronto played Halifax. Was coming in 3rd man with cheap shots regular, the ref just let him get away with it.

He does it regularly . A proper grub that needs his comeuppance

give over no coach use this as a tactic, its the player himself to blame

give him a heavy ban

bussey has always been a bit of aKn** before paul got involved with him

Agreed that no coach is going to tell one of their players to supplement their diet with a piece of an opponents body, but Paul Rowley (despite coming across as a nice individual if you meet him face to face), does seem happy for his players to rough up the opposition if it helps them win the game. McNamara similarly (in the past at least), who's overheard comments down to the touchline last season in the M8's at the Shay weren't quite encouraging sporting play.

Back in 2014, the behaviour of the Rowley coached Leigh team at the Shay, which saw Sam Barlow being sent off and then head-butt a Fax player as he was leaving the field, unfortunately resulted in the Fax team seeking retribution back at the LSV. Dane Manning totally lost it, and ended up putting Sam in hospital. A sad affair with a deserved 10 match ban for Manning as a result.

Biting is one of the worst offences (imo) in RL as in most cases it's a deliberate action, albeit there have been incidents of players having arms forced downwards on to their face (meaning they can't breathe) where doing anything to defend your position can probably be justified.

A heavy ban indeed is justified and expected.

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It was pretty clear on TV.....I'd say his season is over and rightly so.....Rowley's comments are laughable......


I'm starting to hope Widnes spank them this weekend and that then they need to beat Leeds to stand any chance of going up...the wheels falling of the beer tent bandwagon would be quite funny. Their pseudo fans on here and other sites are proving to be as myopic as any fans of a heartland club.....and yet another attendance" figure as far removed from the truth as is possible.

I understand the worries about Toronto’s underlying finances/stability and sometimes the style of their play. However I don’t understand why you’d get annoyed at the club because of some idiots on here.
I don’t understand the dig at the crowd either. I’m sure I saw a figure announced somewhere of just under 8,000, which from what I saw during the game on tv wouldn’t look outlandish.

If you/London want SL,this is a fantastic chance to do it.After watching TW ,You have a golden opportunity. If you meet them in the MPG, due to recent biting behaviour,i believe they will be fitted with Hannibal Lecter style mask.

Force of habit being a London fan

6k there at the weekend, maximum....but Toronto hand out freebies (as do the local breweries) like confetti and count them all regardless of if they are used or not.

With out current owner, current ground and current squad, I wouldn't want us anywhere near SL thanks.....but that said, we would offer more VFM for both our Broadcast partner and our main sponsor than the other 2 teams will......
.....If we are to make the MPG v Toronto, let's hope Halifax and Leeds have knocked lumps out of them first, the RFL appoint a credible referee and SKY have a Video Ref in place (and they feed the mancanadians before KO)

This keeps on coming back, but the ground capacity is 9600 and with 8000 in there then there wouldn't be many gaps to be seen at all - but it still looked pretty sp in places. If, as has been said before, a lot of folk are in the beer tent then that says it all as well. A game of this enormity and they can't be @rsed to watch the game?

7,940 was announced.....not a chance

The ground's legal capacity (fire & safety regs) is set at 9600. That doesn't necessarily mean that every seat in every row in every section of the stadium would have to be filled in order to reach 9600. That's the maximum number allowed in.

There are anywhere from 500 to 1000 people in the north end beer garden and another 200 or so in the south end where there are more tents and the VIP tents.

I was at the game (were you?) and believe me, people were rivetted. It was the closest home game we've ever had at Lamport and an absolute nail, er, biter.

cool story bro......still nowhere near the 7940 announced in the ground, riveted or not.

Up to 1000 folk who couldn't be bothered to watch your most important game of the season 'cos they'd rather have a beer? Wow, the Canadian public are completely riveted with RL.

It's a relatively small stadium, and 9600 looks realistic for every seat occupied. You can believe what you want, but a body count wouldn't be anywhere near 8,000.

If you do get promoted, and get tonked every week and finish at the bottom of the pile next year, let's see how many are turning up then (turning up, not been given free tickets).

Oh, and if you are in SL next season, then you'll need to get the TV deal sorted so we can have video reviews for dodgy tries. The other SL clubs aren't going to accept anything less.

Interestingly & not to defend TW's smoke & mirrors/lies, I read an article in the Metro (now last week) that several Premiership Clubs are announcing 'official' attendances higher than the council/police are reporting, this is apparently due to the fact these Clubs announce all tickets sold including ST's & not the 'actual' number in attendance, Man City & West Ham are 2 of those named.

I would imagine that TW announce 'all tickets' given away free/sold/ST's regardless of how many in attendance. I defy anyone with eyes to claim TW have ever been anywhere near their 'officially stated' attendance figures.

'Seats' they isn't a seat in that ground

Well that's really my point isn't it. The seating is benches.

Talk to Sky. It's up to them. Currently, Wolfpack pays a local crew to do the filming and the Sky pundits comment on the live feed.

Says it all mate, local crew and shouldn't be allowed into SL (or the Championship either).