You'd have thought the NRL would've taught Willie Tonga how to tackle.

In all seriousness though, hope he's ok. It's the kind of impact (along with spear tackles) that I worry about.

Haha. 12 seconds gone. You are talking them up as potential title winners. To justify that they need more than two decent players surely?

It goes without saying that I hope Tonga is okay, but that was dreadful technique for a guy with his experience.

Shut up Stevo, not a shoulder charge in a million years.

What the hell are the commentators going on about Greenwood leading with the shoulder for, of course he lead with the shoulder that's how tackles are made.

Get back to talking about how to grow a bushy beard you plonkers!

no try! farcical to claim he was tackled in the air!

Tackled in the air!? LOL! Great reffing in 2015 again, looking forward to it

That was a try. Stupid decision. I don't want us to win through daft decisions.

I can kind of see where he's coming from, Makinson would have taken it but Taia grabbed his arms. However I think it was an honest play at the ball and should have been a try.

Replace the Video Ref with a random number generator - 1 or 2 (Try or No Try). It will get more decisions right and avoid further embarrassment to the sport.

Decision given because of the stupid new rule?

Whatever the reasoning, its a laughable decision.

Good try by Vaea, but Catalans have the right to feel badly done to. I hope that's the last of the dodgy decisions tonight.

Is challenging for a kick the new obstruction.

The refs have found another rule interpretation they can stupify all and sundry with

can see the new rule over try/no try call from the ref to the video ref being the new cop out replacing the on report!

Well at least the terrible video ref decisions have evened themselves up. I said I could see the thinking behind the first one, not that one though.

I really don't like the ref's call concept. I think it puts pressure on the video ref's to find ways of confirming the on-field decision, rather than just assessing whether a try was scored.

I posted in the other thread, it should've been a try. But even if not in that situation it would have to be catalan ball if he hadn't grounded it correctly. Goal line drop out made literally no sense.

Nah the goal line drop out part was fine. Escare knocked on first.

This. Escare knocked the ball onto the Saints player.

Saints seem to be getting away with a lot of niggling in the tackle

This is hilarious.

finally bentham found his balls, sorry card!

Saints are dumb.they can blame the ref all they like but they were all penalties

Well done to Bentham!
Utter stupidity from Saints. The offsides were ridiculous.

Saints discipline is atrocious. They are lucky it's only one in the bin.

Indeed. The Saints chants of "You don't know what you're doing" post offside decision as the replay showed Percival in line with a Catalans PTB 5m out were an early season comedy moment. It joins James Child's entire performance from last night in the joke stakes.