She has the best side step I've seen for a long long time.
Great to watch her play with such enthusiasm.

The centre position needs urgent attention. I look at Huddersfield and for 2023 it’s likely they’ll have 3 or 4 senior centres in their squad from a list of Cudjoe, Leutele, Wardle, King, Naiqama and Bibby. As things stand for 2023 we have Thornley and that’s it (plus Halsall but I’m referring to senior options). We need at least one centre for next season and ideally two (certainly if Halsall continues to be overlooked). I must admit last night put a pin in my preference of going for Thompson at the expense of other signings. We have to fix up the issues at centre first before looking at anything else.

You'd think that after last night if Halsall doesn't get a run at centre soon there's not much hope for him, only other explanation is the staff have decided stopping at Newcastle rather than dipping in and out of the first team is better for his development

He shouldn’t be dipping in and out of the team. If he is not considered a better centre than Isa and Bibby then the club need to show him the door. Personally, I think he should be in our 17.

I do wonder if they'll go after Bibby if they can keep hold of Leutele to be honest I don't think they will

Bobby has already signed for them.

Isa seems to have a bad game every week, like Clubb did, like Burgess (both) but for some reason they are un-droppable. Sean O'Loughlin towards the end had quite a few bad games, Handling errors and high tackles and it was clear he was slowing down but with Lockers, you knew damn well he wouldn't have a bad game the week after and he had more than earn't the right to have the odd bad game. Powell to me is different though. He infuriates me to watch but it might not be entirely his fault. There was a season under Lam (can't remember which) and he decided to throw his usual game out of the window. He was scooting, he was charging at the line and he was throwing long passes and he was brilliant. That's what infuriates me, he has it in his locker so why doesn't he play like that all the time? He get's it from dummy half and throws a 5 yard pass and that's him done in terms of attacking. It can't be the coach (can it?) surely because O'Neill was the polar opposite when he got a run and was exciting to watch, now Partington has took his place in the side who can't make a yard. Saints have had the best 2 hookers in Super League since it's inception and both of them play the way they want. Cunningham and Roby both brilliant in their own way. Roby for me is much better than Cunningham was, not to say Cunningham wasn't good because he was outstanding in his own right but Roby, even now strikes fear into the opposition defence and will tackle you for 80 mins. Just let the shackles off Powell and make him play like a hooker should play, there needs to be some invention in the opposition 20. Other sides must know as soon as he gets the ball a flat pass is going either to the left or the right and Farrell or Bateman will be running onto it. Mix it up a bit.

Anybody with any Knowledge of RL will be querying that decision, its unbelievable that 2 SL officials thought that was a try, even as a fan who's team benefited from it, its disturbing to see, between officiating and the Disciplinary, they're ruining our game.

The 'late' hit on Oledzki was another, absolutely bonkers decision, the Wigan player barley grazed him with his hand.

Games fu*ked if something dosnt change quickly

Yellow cards for pushing each other in the game last night as well.

In terms of officiating the season can’t end soon enough. It’s been the worst I’ve ever seen and they need a sit down with people around the game and a reset in time for 2023.

Add to that the "tip" tackle by French!!

It'll be interesting to see the referees appointments for next weekend?

I've heard the growing rumour about Thompson too and like yourself for me the lack of any quality centres (Halsall hopefully longer term) is quite stark and needs addressing with some urgency.
Maybe if the Thompson one is true Mago or Ellis may be returning home after the current season?

Yes.

Worse than Grace’s 'Try' against Leeds?

I didn’t think so

2 wrongs dont make a right,if it is wrong it is wrong.

It’s much better officiating in the NRL but Christ Wests have been badly done to today. Absolutely horrific decision by the bunker after a captains challenge that took place when there was no stoppage.

He escorted him off the ball so was a penalty all day. The captain has 10 seconds to challenge a decision regardless.

Not a chance. He wasn’t even looking behind him, he was running towards the ball. How can you challenge when it’s in play?

You literally cannot challenge something that hasn’t been called. Otherwise players could challenge at every play-the-ball, something the NRL have been adamant all season cannot be done.

That’s how most escorts tend to work via a touch of deceit. It was a penalty as I saw it however I didn’t realise that the referee hadn’t actually blown for anything so on that aspect of it your right… unless he got the nod from the bunker!

Some absolute shockers atm. Never an obstruction in the Wests game and yesterday Huddersfield were robbed of a penalty in the last minute (Catalans drop goal attempt off the post - Fages picks up and is tackled by offside players in front of the kicker).

Nothing will change until
1 - fans stop blindly agreeing with decisions when they go for their team, or against a rival. If it's wrong, then call it out as wrong.

2 - the owners of the clubs come out and say something publicly. The TMO decision on Thursday was absolutely atrocious, but nothing has been said by the club. It doesn't help anything. Call it/them out for it, go to town and put them in their place.

I've said it a million times, McManus was right with what he did after the CC Final. Sadly he was pillared by opposition fans, who simply didn't care, as it was an easy shot to the take at Saints.

Things would change and improve if the TV commentators and more so summerisers were critical of wrong decisions made by match officials.
The try at Leeds scored between the legs of the Leeds player playing the ball was ridiculous. So why didn't the tv folk call it out as wrong before the decision was made. Same with the "Spear or Tip" tackle by French. The phrase "a bit harsh" was nonsense. Why didn't they ask which part of the Leeds player was lifted above the horizontal?

If the match officials were called out live on tv their seniors would soon sort things out and standards would improve. That includes the logic, or lack of, a referee going to the VR and saying I think it is a try or No try. Just allow the VR ton make the decision, he's a full time referee and as capable as the match referee for giving the correct opinion.

Things would change and improve if the TV commentators and more so summerisers were critical of wrong decisions made by match officials.
The try at Leeds scored between the legs of the Leeds player playing the ball was ridiculous. So why didn't the tv folk call it out as wrong before the decision was made. Same with the "Spear or Tip" tackle by French. The phrase "a bit harsh" was nonsense. Why didn't they ask which part of the Leeds player was lifted above the horizontal?

If the match officials were called out live on tv their seniors would soon sort things out and standards would improve. That includes the logic, or lack of, a referee going to the VR and saying I think it is a try or No try. Just allow the VR ton make the decision, he's a full time referee and as capable as the match referee for giving the correct opinion.

They did say the try shouldn’t have been given.

Yes they did, only after the decision had been made.
An opinion like "They can't give that, it's just illegal".

I just watched the Wests game. That was a shocker, that literally atole the game for the Cowboys. Wasn't the only bad decision in that game by any means, though.