Richie Owen only got a 1 game ban.

Surely the RFL won't want Leeds getting to Wembley again with all those empty seats in their section.

He shouldn't have thrown a punch, simple.

if some one elbows me 3 times be it unpro,, or in the street,, there getting one back,,, and i wonder how many wouldnt do the same... outta 100 ??????

Regardless, he cost us the game. He shouldn't have done it.

Agreed, though if we'd been playing anywhere near a decent standard, we'd have been too far ahead for it to have mattered.

Had the ref not had such a shocker at the end of the first half and gelling had taken his chance, we could have been 12 points up at half-time. We scored first in the second half. We would have seen the game out even with the sending off.

I can see why he did it but he shouldn't. A knock on effect is that if teams feel he has a short fuse they will target him and wind him up.

They've targeted him for two years - this is the first time he's reacted with a punch. Mostly he crunches the guy in the tackle.

It was another poor decision by the ref - one of MANY. It's a yellow at worst. No problem with McIlorum standing up for himself though - house tactics by Elima.

Awful refereeing resulted in him being red-carded.

There was a lot of confusion around us in the East stand, the card looked yellow, and we were wondering why he wasn't back on after 10 minutes.

We thought it was a yellow card in the West Stand.

There was a lot of niggling all match, seemed like part of their game plan and it worked. They were at him all match I listened to GMR commentary and Phil Kinsella said Micky Mac's kick was a poor one - he failed to mention that someone had just taken his legs from under him. Was waiting for Gaz Hock to explode in the first half but fortunately he didn't. Apart from being in his face all the time I was pretty sure some of the Bradford players were concentrating on pulling his shorts down which was just nuts but I suppose if you want to niggle someone you'll try anything and others will try the same so the team need to learn to rise above it or it will cost us again.

I'm in the you defend yourself camp. Yes it was another contributing factor to our loss but it wasn't wholly responsible.
I very much doubt many on here would sit back and allow themselves to be elbowed without reacting, whether playing in a rugby match or not.

He always been a niggly git Elima.

I sent my mate a message saying he'd been sin binned I thought it was yellow from east , then he messaged me saying it was red and he wasn't at the game haha

Lost us the game today. If Elima did elbow im on the deck he should of replied to it on the deck, instead of standing up and giving him a smack right infront of the ref. With him on the field we would of won, no doubt, today

Sit in the middle of the west, it looked like yellow to a lot of us as well.

We were our own worst enemies tonight.

I rate McIlorum, expecially amomgst the Roby obsession, but the Elima reaction was quite ridiculous. Biting to a few feeble digs, futile.

In saying that I recall McIlorum in a game v Leeds at DW saying to Sinfield "f*€$ you, who" then, "who the f*€$ are you?", this, to a multiple GF winning legend and SL skipper. Give the lad credit, he has nuts. But if you play the line, you tow the line. He didn't.

One match max. No biggie.

He has a point though, Sinfield is bang average.

That was a comedy moment when he said that to Sinfield.

Eorl Crabtree couldn't stop laughing when he got sent off because of how obvious it was' had me chuckling.

Yeah, but what's it like to be perfect?





Rock 'n' Roll.

Crabtree was great fun to listen to on BBC Leeds, sounds like a really decent bloke who likes a laugh.

Didn't see the incident fully as was at the other side of the ground. Saw Mcllorum throw a punch but thats about it. It was stupid play really.

Thought the referee was awful. Somecomments here about Elimas rection been a footballers, everytime a Wigan player dived at the ruck it was a penalty. It became laughable. There were times when a Bulls player wasn't anywhere near he blew. Think one time Hock actually asked for a penalty and then he have it!

I though the penalty for our first try was harsh on Wigan and said at the time he gave it just to give Bradford a few penalties. Think it was Lulia's try i thought we knocked on.

But then the ref gave us nothing all night and seemed to give you a penalty every chance he got.He only seemed to watch one team at the ruck. The Pryce sin binning i thought Goulding dived IMO.

But thats enough about the referee. Think the better team won in the end.

It comes with a lot of expectation, but I get by.

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