In my view Westerman would make a very good addition

Already replaced by O'Brien, I think.

Well at some point in a Super League season and it might even have been this century. Mind you there is a whole other debate about what whether that was for punishment for not performing earlier in their season or whether we merited it.

Westerman will go to SL

Why would we get a SL ref when we play in the championship? Maybe one that gets dropped due to poor performance.

Wasn't the case put forward, with the advent of the middle 8's, that Championship contenders for those '8's' be allocated SL refs, to prepare the clubs for the end of the season? If you get SL refs this season, you should be flattered - at least until you realise they seem to interpret the laws differently to Championship refs!

Robert Hicks was the referee at the Dewsbury v Toronto game. For some reason.

I missed most of the pre game chat, but their was something mentioned about the Batley game, and had i5 been a different ref, the result might have been different, not really sure how but hey.
So only summising but maybe the RFL thought the game against Dewsbury would be close so they made a decision to put an experienced full time ref on to stop the complainers, it actually worked in Dewsbury favour in this game.
What’s the problem? Ben Thaler goes out nad Refs community games!

Something to please Victor Meldrew. www.torontowolfpack.com/2018/04/18/rugb ... -8th-june/

Something to please Victor Meldrew. www.torontowolfpack.com/2018/04/18/rugb ... -8th-june/

Fast five flag Rugby is something new! I know try tag were at new river stadium on Sat, maybe they saw the potential of non contact participation. Will be interesting to see if they can turn participants into fans of the game.
Sadly it does not seem to be the case in London try tag community. Despite the efforts of the try tag management a lot of players still don’t make the link with try tag and Rugby league.

They've now signed Matt Russell from Wire. Where does it end??

Well we all know the aspirations. Salary cap question is brought to my nd again, and where the money is coming from and can it be sustained.

Booked my trip with Canadian Affairs. Out on the Thursday back on the Monday. Cheaper than I could get anywhere else with the inclusion of transfers and match ticket.

Hope they have got Lamport sorted for June. Canadian Affair to be honest are a pretty decent company, used them a few times.

Booked through Canadian Affair going out Thursday and fly home Sunday night. The Thursday date let’s me get at least 3 baseball games in aswell. On Wolfpack Facebook page there’s a comment saying “ see you June 9th at Lamport, so hopefully it will be there.

David Argyll, a Toronto-based Australian mining dude with deep pockets, is the man behind the Wolfpack. Seems like he's enjoying himself. He took the visiting Swinton fans out for a few drinks last weekend.

Photos on Twitter suggest the pitch is almost finished, so it should all be fine by the time London arrive.

Having watched some of the Swinton game this morning on TV. I am amazed that they were allowed to play at Markham. The facilities looked really poor.
Ground looked worse than SHU where Sheffield played.

Let’s hope the home ground is sorted for June

Appalling discipline against Wire, started well but will be lucky to keep it under 50 and keep 10 men on field at the end,

Nothing unusual considering the coach they have!

Think it shows their pedigree or lack of it, they don’t like it when things don’t go their way and get petulant, like a bunch of whining kids, and that’s an insult to some of the junior teams. It was good to see Ben taking such positive action with the dissent.

Agree re referee, thought their captain was lucky not to be red carded

Jack Bussey stamping his feet like a spoiled child.

And given his quotes of the BBC site he sees Wire as the aggressors.....



If they get promoted I would imaging a high profile Aussie will be brought in, because that style of play will see them relegated straight away.......I really hope the RFL are going to send strong referees to Toronto for their home games......

Rowley did the same with Leigh which is why they failed in play offs first time round, they tried the bully tactics against SL opposition. They got found out on sun, against other championship side they are not going to struggle as they did against wire to maintain the pace which is why they kept getting caught out.

see er agree on some things Northernman. Ben was brilliant oh for more of him and an RFL with the same backbone

www.rugby-league.com/superleague ... discipline Interesting article on the issues that arose from Sunday game. Ben Thaler can’t ref every game though.

www.rugby-league.com/superleague ... discipline Interesting article on the issues that arose from Sunday game. Ben Thaler can’t ref every game though.