TODAYS CHALLENGE CUP MATCHES!

GENERAL CHAT ABOUT THE GAMES, BUILD UP, THE ACTION AS IT HAPPENS AND AFTERMATH BELOW.

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GAME ON : Salford Reds Devils v Widnes Vikings - 12:30:00

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GAME ON : St.Helens v Leeds Rhinos - 14:30:00

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GAME ON : Catalan Dragons v Wakefield Trinity - 17:00:00

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GAME ON : Featherstone Rovers v Hull FC - 19:00:00

Hopefully a comfortable win for Salford as we need a bit of a boost.

Not expecting the game to be anywhere near as entertaining as the KR-Cas game last night though.

Shame it wasn't on tv last night.

seems like you are already right lol.

A minutes silence for that bigoted elitist racist scrounging immigrant.

Steph?



Comfortable win in the end. Not the greatest performance and still a few issues to iron out but in the cup it's all about getting through into the next round.

Looking forward to the other 2 games. Too many sports clashes this afternoon though with 3pm footy and the Grand National!

Good job RL is not like horse racing otherwise about 10 Leeds players are about to get shot in the head.

How anyone can watch a sport with no regards for the lives of the athletes that exists only so some bookies can get rich is disgraceful.

Hypocrisy, take an knee stand against racial injustice, after a minutes silence for a known racist bigot, couldn’t make it up.

Warmsley is a Smurf

Did Roby not score earlier? And the ref completely ignored it?

Wigan or Hull would have been up by about 26 points if they were playing us!

What?

Deserved that red. Got away with it in the first half

Disgraceful decision hardly even a penalty , thage milked thst he looks up at the ref looking for a penalty

Shoulder charge to head is a red card all day long . Awful challenge

Bollox slightly late at worse, no contact at all with the head and not a shoulder charge, ridiculous decision that happens mist weeks and no sending off. Thaler should be reffing under 13’s

Why didn’t Mellor try to catch that ball ?

I think the fact there's no one supporting your thoughts shows it was the right decision and may deserve further action

If thats a red we may aswell just start playing touch and pass. And maybe not on this thread but plenty on others saying the its not, some saying it is as well but it’s certainly not cut and dry, that will happen in others fames mostly weeks and won’t be a red and you know it.

So we are looking to see for a forward pass now

For the referees out there: what do the laws of the game actually say about one player knocking the ball out of the hands of another player when both players are contesting the ball in the air? I'm curious about the factual accuracy of comments just made by a video referee. Note this is definitively not a tackle in the air, it is a contest for the ball in the air, when both players are in the air. Is there a law that prevents a player from knocking the ball out one on one, or has the video referee just made that up?

I see someone has edited out your racist comment.

You can say the same about a player attempting to pass the ball backwards, clearly the ref didn't call for a knock on but asked to see if the ball went forward in which they can't look for a forward pass, video showed no knock on but no evidence to prove it went either and had to go with the call of no try

It's these discrepancies within the game that infuriates fans on what they see

Deffo Sam Tompkins has upped his game

Thing is the video referee specifically said it wasn't allowed for one player in the air to knock the ball out of the hands of the other player in the air whilst both, by his own acknowledgment, were legitimately challenging. The video referee's rationale was not that it was a forward pass (which he cannot adjudicate on) or a knock forward (which it wasn't, and he never claimed it was), nor was it a tackle in the air. I have this funny feeling that the specific rationale for the decision given by the video referee simply doesn't exist within the laws, that's what I'm actually curious about. I know we have people in this board who are more familiar with the laws than I am, so I'm genuinely interested to know if this is a real law or if it is an interpretation that isn't directly supported by the laws?

Funny that on a day when 50 RL players take legal action about concussion that a. Leeds fan argues against a red card for an absolutely shocking challenge
Then we get inconsistency in the Cats game where another shocking challenge did not even get a sin binning.

Contact with the head without mitigation ( ie the player falling etc ) should be a red card all day long.