It was an exciting game.

Why were St George in the comp? Its probably been answerd but I've missed it?!

They volunteered

Well done Wire and St George. Great friday night viewing. Looking forward to Wigan v Broncos tonight. Just wish Tez O'connor and Gordon Tallis were playing


Hopefully next year the Mighty Rhinos and Sea Eagles will be joining the party.

Great entertainment but a sadly familiar result. I thought Thaler reffed much better than he would have reffed a SL game but let's be clear as to the reason. It's the usual Aussie appeasement we have seen so many times before. Whatever the reason, it led to a much better spectacle. He should have carded the first high tackle and imo would have done had the situation been reversed. Finally, well done to both victims for immediately getting up. If that was football they'd still be receiving treatment.

Both Penny and GOB shot straight back up to their credit, the first one, if Penny had milked it would have resulted in a Yellow, the 2nd was the right call everyday of the week for me

Unlucky last night fellas.

I thought you went well, held your own and could have won the game. As in the past, you made errors that killed you and I also felt you lacked direction from your halves. Their kicking, in particular, was way ahead. Still a good effort. They were too clinical for you.

On Thaler. Thought he provided a benchmark for how the game should be refereed. Allowed it to flow, didn't overreact to a couple of grabs that looked a lot worse than they were and pretty much stayed out of it.

Pretty much my take on it, people making out our players need protection...yet both players jumped straight back up with zero injury, i thought the first was a yellow personally one for high and two because he breaks the line, he doesn't get hit and i think he'd of run through and scored.
Imagine if last night had been officiated by James Child, he penalises everything, he has no thought for the fans and just letting it go.

It's about consistency though. If that is the default way that RL is to be officiated in this country (when relating to high shots) that's fair enough. Ah Van's punishment should be recinded. Let's see what happens over the other two WCC games.

This makes pertinent reading - www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sport/1180 ... er/?ref=ar

This makes pertinent reading - www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sport/1180 ... er/?ref=ar

What I feared came to light.
An excellent running and tackling game where the difference in class of hb was all too apparent.
A master class of a kicking game from St George and utter pathetic from Myler and GOB.

Myler put only one decent kick in the whole game otherwise he just fed the ball down the throat of a winger or fb.

GOB needs to practice trying to get snow on every high bomb AND KICKING INTO TOUCH!
Give the opposition something to think about when the ball hangs in the air.

That might pee a few off on here but it was the difference between the two teams.
We lack a footballer at hb and I'm feckin sick of hearing myself say it as well as you lot. One of them needs to make way.

As for the head shots, it was a friendly and sending a player off would only contribute to detract from the spectacle, no team gain from having a tribunal only the test of the teams in either the NRL or SL.

If I'd seen a red last night i would have be throughly p'd off, we created the sin bin and reds should only ever be used in the absolute worst of circumstances.

Why isnt he mentioning westwoods high tackle against salford?

We've all slept since then, why didn't he mention Edwards on Bradley Clyde or Mathers on King?

If the officials had stated that high shots would go unpunished at the start of the match, the next 80 minutes would have made interesting viewing. I'm all for watching 13 v 13, but not at the cost of a serious bleedin injury!

I think if your going off incidents this season then the first one was a yellow card. We just want consistency. Ah vans was very harsh

It is a fair point to say both players got up straight away, but on another pitch on another day, someone won't get up & won't be able to play again. There is another 90% of the body that can be tackled to stop a player & it is those techniques that should be getting coached. Cynical & potentially dangerous head high tackles need to be outlawed full stop.

One other thing that ed me off last night, kick chasers being interfered with, it was a ing joke. Just watching the first half, Marshall has just took Evans out with a blatant body check

Most enjoyable game I've watched this year. I think the way the game was officiated was the main reason for this.
As for aggressive shots and wreckless tackles... Why didn't Warrington give some back. Thaler had set his standereds through the game. Warrington should have jumped on board.

Not fussed over the first two warm up games but this was enjoyable. Warrington will do well this season and this game won't hurt there confidence, only improve it.

On the other foot, St Georges kick chase, and example to most in the SL, our kick chase is NRL like but plenty in SL look like they can't be bothered.

Too right Yed.
The high bombs from GOB where not high enough, not allowing time for our players to create a presence and give their fb something to worry about.

At one of those bombs a only Wheeler tried to give chase. He is only half the size of their fb and wingers!

Every high bomb ought to be chased by ALL of our tallest players and some.

At first sight the tackle on Penny looked like a red card. But after watching the replay the tackle hits him on the chest and comes up. What made it look worse was the St. George player had both feet off the ground so there was potential for the tackle to go wrong and maybe a sin binning would have been appropriate.

I though Laithwaite was outstanding and got through a lot of work for you.

Back to one of my favourite topics, I honestly believe that Wire lacked craft from dummy half and half back. Had Michael Monaghan and/or Lee Briers played you would have won that game.

Ref had obviously been told to officiate the game as though it was a friendly (ie, keep your cards in your pocket) which was a real shame as it took credibility away from the occasion. Penny's was a straight red, which I could forgive Thaler for not seeing but what really got me was the holding down after a break in the second half. As soon as the penalty was awarded it has to be ten minutes, that is mandatory. Folks in the North Stand paid £40, presumably to see more than a friendly. Both teams certainly went at it in a fashion more than a friendly. So why was it refereed as a friendly?

If you don't think that was a red card it would be interesting to know what you think does deserve a red card, perhaps we should rewind a couple of years to a game at Huddersfield and Chris Bridge's contribution?

I've seen less given a red and far worse ignored. That's RL. For all you having a winge, think of Briers punching Ablett in the back of the head, a true coward act, never in a million years should it have been just a pen. You win some you lose some. wire fans should be more concered with multiple knock on's at the play the ball.