You think it should be deemed as tackle completed when they touch heads? What?

even though he's retired, Briers is still your best go to man!


how does he get away with being on the pitch so often and so long?

Too angry really to post anything sensible but, I'm fed up with a team that is full of losers ,get rid and get players that know how to win or it will never be our year

He's on the floor with an opposition player touching him. To me that's play dead. But if it has to be a hand, which has never been specified whenever I have watched other games then play on I guess. You can ground the ball with your stomach these days so who knows.

if only sport were so simple eh?
i assume you've been spoiled by success?

tackle is deemed complete if defender has hands on the attacker, ie, holding him or any part of him
it was a correct call and 100% a try.

Might be next year !

They ran harder, tackled harder and in better numbers, played the ball quicker, slowed our ruck down better, had better communication and leadership especially on the 6th tackle, had a miles better line speed and an infinitely better kicking game.

A totally deserved win for Rovers.

They did have a lot of "injuries" when they were ahead to take away momentum and atmosphere from the game and I noticed that about them when we played them away as well. Ian Henderson eat your heart out!

But we were garbage and deserved a good hiding for that limp display and thankfully they didn't give us one!

They had more injuries than World War 2 and yet we were the ones that finished with 14.5 men.

A similar try will probably be chalked off next week, such is the inconsistency.

We looked lost as soon as Sims and Hill were spelled. And I just can't fathom the reason for playing Wheeler in such a big game.

shocking decision that backfired massively.

Just watched Lunts try again. Sam Wildes hand is on Lunts hand as they are both on the floor. Doesn't matter now, shouldn't have come to that but if you want a hand on a grounded player then its there.

As held as Harrison was in Newcastle.

On the plus side we have no distraction of Wembley when we face Wigan

I guess nobody did their homework. Dixon is absolute garbage under a high ball and yet he was only tested once as far I remember and spilled it.

Also on the plus side, I thought the burgers at the ground were really good.

Catering better than warrington ?? That's not really hard

If only it were a case of doing our homework...

I really don't understand your teams tactic of keep unloading the ball at every opportunity.
Without this kamikaze tactic you would have won today.
I think Tony Smith is under enormous pressure now to win the grand final.

Tony smith likes his players to off load seems to work for Leeds but, some of our players are not good at it and obviously feel under pressure to try it from the coaching staff ,Aussie props are not used to it and cuthbertson at leeds is an exception to the rule

Six hours later, and I'm still absolutely seething. Normally, I'd've forgotten about a defeat by now, but this was a CCSF, and we approached it with all the intensity of a Monday morning training session, FFS. Countless times we moved the ball across the pitch, with PEDESTRIANlike "speed". It was like torture watching it, such is our slow passing. We're facing a full back who has an aversion to taking high bombs (and it was raining heavily). So what do we do? Bomb an inform winger, who is assured in these situations. Pityful tactics.

Like my golf later in the day, it was mistake after mistake. Poor options, suicidal plays, and poor execution. Someone please stop those "loving" chargedowns, too. They cause more trouble than they're worth.

Wheeler. Why was he ever given a jersey today? What did he do, apart from get injured?
Monaghan caught by a prop. Deary me.
The waste of skin in the 15 jersey. Should have occupied the warm seat on the plane, that Sandow vacated 24 hours earlier.
Myler. Showed his undoubted class, but again, hardly took the HKR line on.
GO'B. Just go. He has a hole in his bottom. As long as he has one of those, he'll never make a SL standard halfback. Simple as.
Sims. Duckie hit the nail on the head, months ago. He's simply not big enough to be a "driving" prop. At least another stone and a half, but don't lose any aggression.
Dwyer. Shame really. His poorest game since his return. I'm a huge fan.
Atkins. The most frustrating player in years. We saw what he was capable of, within two minutes. The less said about the remaining 78, the better.
England. Stick to spitting, lad. Like GO'B, you're out of your depth at this level (though he does have a few years on GO'B's level of non achievement).

So there we have it. Another SF blown, that was there for the taking. It was just like being in the pub, and Susanna Reid's been giving you "the eye" all night. You walk over, stumble, and spill your pint all over her. AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH

It was strange mantallato is 6.5 and catches everything Dixon is 5.3 and drops everything it's not rocket science to pick one to bomb at the end of every set

don't think either of out halves backs can get a bomb over 5ft 3 anyway.....

Briers spent more time on the field than Asotasi.