Absolutely, the handling was shocking and the completion rate amateurish but I've already made a 24000 miles round trip this year to take in 2 Leigh games so a chance to see England 20 mins away from my house I wouldn't class as shelling out for nowt.

I was curious to witness that, in the light of Jamie Acton's much publicised (and dangerous) foul on Bird. To my mind, the PNG guy's follow through on a seemingly unconscious player, was just as dangerous - if not identical. The initial injury to Brown was caused by an unfortunate clash of heads, but what happened next doesn't even seem to have even been reviewed.

Completely different to Actons actions. What I find astounding is they required (not available at the time) video playback to see what injury has occurred! What sort of a doctors that?

As I said, "not identical" but, in my mind, just as dangerous - and unnecessary.

As for the medical "efforts", thank goodness for social media, and a non-playing member of the squad realising what had happened!

Yes as you said Alan "If not identical"

.. Lots of technical rules have been ignored in the WC,but ignoring a players welfare both on and off the pitch is diabolical.

Bang on, Atomic. It's a roughty-toughty (rufty-tufty?) old game and that is part of its attraction for the spectator. However no genuine contact sports fan wants to see a bested combatant subjected to too much punishment (whilst we may admire their bravery) and possibly incur life changing (or ending) injuries.

Bongser recalls an heavyweight champ fight betwixt, he thinks (he is happy to be corrected if anyone recognises his nebulous description of the bout in question), Larry Holmes and Smokin' Joe's lad (Marlon? Marvis? Marvin ("Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to send an email to some dwork who's forgotten his password"icon_wink.gif?) Holmes battered his opponent into submission unto the point where Frazier Jnr was on the ropes being mainly supported by an extended left from Holmes, who repeatedly beckoned the idiot ref to stop the fight. Each time the ref "sat on his hands", Larry would put another, practically undefended, bomb into Frazier's head region and then beckon the ref again. This went through two or three repetitions and had Bongser screaming at the tele for the berk to stop the fight. Finally he did.

Frazier hadn't gone down. Guts! Brown got up and played on. Guts! Laudable from the pair of them. Sometimes, however, gutsy b'stards need protecting from themselves.

Bongser will now dismount his hobby horse in the manner of Dettori. He hopes somebody will catch him.