How does a referee judge if someone is injured or not, as said previously saw them do it against Leigh a couple of games last season, but I wouldn't want to be the ref who called their bluff and got it wrong

Yeah....so much so they came back to Headingley a fortnight later, 'schooled' Leeds 26-6 and then went on to win the Grand Final.

Not too much the ref can do during the game, but after games this should be reviewed using the video and action taken. It’s unsporting conduct and bringing the game into disrepute.

The disciplinary review all games, so it would be straight forward to look into "injured players", Greg Bird for instance gets injured every game and quite often makes a rapid recovery on the next play. Obviously you have to give benefit of the doubt to the player but some are very blatant and of regular occurrence, maybe the disciplinary could advise the particular club that the player should miss a few games for the "players welfare".

They used to move play 20 metres to the left/right and have another 'play the ball' even if the attacking player could not do so himself. Now PLAY IS STOPPED for about 2 or 3 minutes, and the defending teams know this.

This. The only reason play should stop is if there is a clear risk of the injured player being involved in the next play. Thats the way it used to be. If its the side with the ball its not hard to avoid them, and an attacking team wouldn't want to have play stopped by going back to where they are either. Now we've got trainers stopping the game whilst treating players miles away from the play.

If feigning starts to be a problem then penalise them. There are already rules against time wasting. If a player seems hurt but then magically gets moving once the clock is restarted, why can't the ref give the captain a team warning for time wasting and tell them the next player that does it will be penalised? As for a genuinely injured player being pinged, that's the lesson from Peter and the Wolf isn't it? Don't pretend to be injured and it would never happen.

Indeed - and referees half-heartedly telling the trainer that the player will have to go off for treatment, and the trainer blatantly ignoring him and carrying on whatever he's doing; tell them to get off the field *once*, and if they don't, penalise the offending team - easy.

Completely disagree. Myself and most others would feign injury, if we get a penalty from it, get a breather or are able to time waste from it. It will not stop until referees stop it from happening. Why would one team stop it? They would be putting themselves at a disadvantage.

People on this thread seem to have lost track of the basic news: Catalans Dragons beat Leeds Rhinos by six tries to four.

This means that Catalans will not be relegated and they are a candidate for the top 8 in 2018. What a turn around! What a great team!

Totally dishonest it is then seeing as Seb Ikahihifo did it against us the other week as we were about score following a breakaway with the game in the balance. He knew exactly what he was doing and he even smiled at fans as he walked off for his "concussion assessment".

It's rife though and blatant cheating but like someone has already posted how do the officials deal with it. 99 times out of a hundred it's gamesmanship but it's a Peter & the Wolf situation in the one time a referee waves play on because he's sick of the cheating you can guarantee that player will be seriously injured.

If that becomes epidemic in the game to halt a scoring opportunity then I would probably stop watching the game on the basis on whats the point of watching cheats have the upper hand.

A great team does not resort to the play acting that the Catalan players are employing.

Why they do this, especially Greg Bird is pathetic.

Save all the ameteur dramtics for the stage, or football.

Here are the highlights of Catalans famous win over Leeds: www.catalansdragons.com/articles ... talans-r4/ Kenneth Edwards has so far proven to have been an excellent buy for Catalans. He is a very aggressive back rower who makes ground and scores tries. If he can behave himself off field then he will probably stay and make a great contribution, along with Samuel Tomkins, David Mead, and Antoine Gigot, to Catalans drive for silverware in 2019.

Here are the highlights of Catalans famous win over Leeds: www.catalansdragons.com/articles ... talans-r4/ Kenneth Edwards has so far proven to have been an excellent buy for Catalans. He is a very aggressive back rower who makes ground and scores tries. If he can behave himself off field then he will probably stay and make a great contribution, along with Samuel Tomkins, David Mead, and Antoine Gigot, to Catalans drive for silverware in 2019.

Famous win??? underhanded win is more accurate