Another clean bill, considering some of the bans that have been dished out this year we seem to be doing a pretty good job discipline wise.
Hopefully with the better squad depth this year the usual suspects have realised being sat down by the disciplinary committee is a sure fire way of losing your spot for quite a while.

I looked earlier and we’re 9th for penalties conceded and are the only team yet to have a sin binning (or a red card). Add in no bans yet and we can be pretty pleased (and opposition fans can say it’s proof we get an easy ride from the officials).

Improvement since the first game too when James Child penalised us for breathing

Kiss of death thread.

“It’s full time on a sorry night for Wigan, 3 red cards, 4 yellows and a 68 points to 2 beating by The Catalans Dragons”

I'll issue a full on grovelling apology if I've jinxed us

Given some of the things that suspensions have been handed out for so far this year, I call it a miracle that anyone is getting clean bills.

I blame Powell

Darryl Powell? Me too!

If it happens, I'm blaming Richie "Bloody hell" Mathers.

OK so punches thrown.

Told you this thread would be kiss of death.

Bateman will surely be in trouble too?

Very likely.

Truth is I'm not sure we'd miss him.

Another one who's come back from Aus a shadow of his former self.

He had a poor 2021, which was much the same for every player but I’d cut him some slack this season. Yes he was poor last night (again who wasn’t?) but I think he’s had a really strong start to 2022 and has been much more like the Bateman we know.

Whoever started this thread wants locking up

He needs support imo. You look at the Canberra side that Bateman ripped it up in and it had big guys in there helping him out. If you've got lads punching holes and other options, then that gives Bateman room to get going.

Grovelling apologies, I take full responsibility for starting this thread https://www.rugby-league.com/article/36 ... QhrkV4rAeU

Grovelling apologies, I take full responsibility for starting this thread https://www.rugby-league.com/article/36 ... QhrkV4rAeU

Quote ="apollosghost"Grovelling apologies, I take full responsibility for starting this thread https://www.rugby-league.com/article/36 ... QhrkV4rAeU'" Ouch, both starting front rowers. So it’s 5-8 games by the looks of things for Ellis. That is a real blow. I can’t recall the Singleton incident. Time for Mago to step up and do longer minutes and hopefully Havard is back. If that’s the case we should be able to cope.

Quote ="apollosghost"Grovelling apologies, I take full responsibility for starting this thread https://www.rugby-league.com/article/36 ... QhrkV4rAeU'" Ouch, both starting front rowers. So it’s 5-8 games by the looks of things for Ellis. That is a real blow. I can’t recall the Singleton incident. Time for Mago to step up and do longer minutes and hopefully Havard is back. If that’s the case we should be able to cope.

Nothing for Bateman, then? He's lucky.

Didn't see him do anything untoward. Mcilorum squared up to him and he didn't react (to his credit).

Singleton out along with Ellis is a tough one. Mago just doesn't look fit enough to do long minutes and its asking a lot of Havard even if he's fit to play. Not good with Challenge Cup games coming up.

That's really poor and ties in with what we've been discussing on the other thread.

When is Havard due back? As much as I'd like to see him asap (and we certainly need him now) I hope they don't bring him back before he's ready.

Been trying to find the Singleton incident. From what i can make out from the discip minutes, it seems to be shortly before the punch-up, but I can't see anything.

He started full training in France according to one interview I saw with Peet and the aim always seems to have been this Cas game. I presume that was with a view to easing him in though, so losing your two starts is a nightmare on that score.

I can't work out the "OPTA time" it says the time of the Ellis incident was 1 36 39. It was actually 69:29 when it happened and that doesn't correlate with 1 36 39 at all.
Anyway, the Singleton incident was 1 25 25 according to OPTA so it's 10 mins before. If it's any help, Powell apparently does a late hit on a kicker at 1 24 21.