over the past few weeks ive noticed a new rule that has crept into our game without us all knowing,cast your mind back to the cats saints game.cats score a try from a kick which got ruled out cos a cats player laid a finger on a saints player.then last night joel competes in the air for a ball catches it scores and that gets chalked off.so there this new rule is you cant compete for a high ball with a saints player...so when did this come in

What did Eddie say?

One of the more pleasing aspects of last night, was the amount of times we broke through the line of the second best defensive team (as we were REGULARLY informed) in the competition. 4 tries, a couple chalked off, a couple of times where we lacked pace, a couple of wrong decisions. At times, we were sensational.

That Monaghan no try (it should have been given. I'd still say the same, if the boot had been on the other foot, and it had happened against us), looked like it was going to be pivotal. Stains scored within a few minutes of that, and started to exert pressure....we stood up to it, and we showed we had balls, against a big team.

At times, it was our best display, since the annihilation of Leeds in the CCFinal of 2010.
Let's carry it on.

Warrington are a class apart from every other team in SL when you turn it on. The one chance the rest of us have is that you can still bottle it in the playoffs. But it's a slim chance...

Briers was interviewed on pitch and stirred the pot saying they were playing the next match in 4 days. Hemmings said something like "Thats just silly, he knows its 5 days, thats just ridiculous"

I can not really remember the exact words, so if anybody has a copy of the game I would be interested. But he was certainly peed off, I thought his wig was going to slip over his ears.

Nice of you to say, but still a long way to go yet. I think the spur for the players will be missing out on the GF last year.

i think he also went on to say something like "playing Monday and Saturday is no different than playing Sunday/friday"

Yes, I remember that. Trouble is when you get to 120 yrs old, the memory is not as good as it used to be.

I think Eddie was being waaaay too literal.

By my maths (and it would be a realistic and pragmatic approach)

Play Monday night
Tuesday- 1
Wednesday- 2
Thursday-3
Friday- 4
and play Saturday.

4 full days off.

Edit: it would be foolish to suggest that they just get to the HJ at half four. They will have spent Saturday morning etc doing stuff

Plus it was a late game on Monday and an early on Sat; the opposite of a usual short turn around

Sorry if I missed any terribly-intended sarcasm but Meli was judged to have defused the bomb. Debatable though.

Adding 1 + 1 and getting 3, I have the feeling that TS had already had a go at Sky and Eddie was feeling rather tetchy. Just a guess.

Hemmings tetchy at Smith, never!

It could happen. Even a loveable ( or is it loving), knowledgable guy as Eddie can get irritated from time to time. He can't be perfect all the time.

His hair is always perfect.

I love the fact that Sky's two long serving Cretins are still massively in love with the "Entertainers"

. even though they are limping along playing house rugby.

there was so much sly juvenile stuff to come out of those idiot gobs it's sickening even to the point when Hohia's dropped elbow on Myler was quite clearly acceptable.

Tony Smith amazes me that he still has the grace to give these clowns the time of day. if it was me as soon as Bill Arthur put the microphone in front of my face i'd rip the spongey bit off it chuck it in the crowd and Tell Bill to shove whats left of it up wiggys backside, and walk off (holding in a smug chuckle).

That the radio coverage on GMR isn't the best,not when they kept going back for the football score.

Thanks for the replies. For me it is no different to playing Sunday afternoon to Friday, apart from the fact players won't have got much sleep last night. It is Championship players regularly playing Sunday then Thursday with only one training session and a full time job that I feel sorry for.

For me it was maybe an attempt at mind games with Briers knowing Wane et al would be watching, or more likely just a typical Briers sarcy comment. Smith has made his dislike for Hemmings pretty well known (the other week he said at the fans forum he dislikes him as a person) and is painfully blunt and difficult when interviewed by him, I imagine Lee's comments wound him up- he is only human.

As for ripping the microphone and all that malarkey, don't bite the hand that feeds you springs to mind.

what's it got to do with me???

That's very kind of you to say so. Monday night clearly had an effect on you seeing as you wrote this on the Saints board before the game:-



We're well used to being being two faced on here -Rogues and Odem in particular - but even by their standards that was quite a turnaround.

Thanks Ian. Later on he called it 'banter.' Lowest of the low for me.

Yes ,& how long did he hold Myler down for ? He should have been in the bin.

There were 2-3 Saints players that were clearly quite frustrated during that match. Probably because we had a vice like grip on the forwards for most of the game. But with Monas, Waterhouse, Bennie and even Higham tackling anything that moved it was hardly surprising. I think somebody has already said that defence won us the match and I think that is probably true. The backs didn't quite click. Atkins was rusty and his passing was off. I would assume also that Ratchford playing in an unfamiliar position might also have contributed some uncertainty. If Bridge is not going to play at Wembly, then perhaps we need to play Ratchford in the line to get the rhythm and timing sorted out in the backs.

Thought McCarthy played well tonight breaking the line and constantly getting quality offlads away. If he continues in the form he is in he just might earn himself a Wembley starting slot!!!!!

Man, I got that touch by McCarthy totally wrong, I guess I wasn't paying that much attention. It did definitely go forward, you can see it travel over the line on the ground.



That contested high ball was still rubbish, though. The saints player (Meli?) had his fingers on the ball when he hit the ground, but Joel had it securely in both hands by that point, which doesn't sound very defused to me.