Totally agree about Batchelor. He is showing some great form and I can’t believe he’s still only 23! If we don’t try tie him down for a few years it would be silly. He is ready to make that right SR spot his own if not this season then most definitely next season.

I agree about Batch but I still like Pitts.

It is surprising that after NRL ditched the two referee experiment, Messrs Tomkins and Pearce were allowed to reintroduce it for our match with Catalans when they played puppeteers to the marionette in green. Tom Moore will be squirming in embarrassment when he sees a rerun of his performance on Saturday and should have several weeks to reflect upon it whilst conducting matches in League 1.

As ever, it wasn't the decisions he gave , though several would have bordered on bizarre if he had been solely responsible, but the total lack of even handedness and downright disrespect for the Wakefield players. We should have no problem if players are pinged for an incorrect play the ball, but if the ref is to call one, he calls them all and should be so certain that when we have the benefit of a replay, the viewers and commentators can spot an infringement. Certainly not the case on Saturday and concerningly, all in one direction.

Similarly, ball strip and lost possession, defenders obstructing at a high kick and players taken out off the ball are two sides of the same coin that always came up heads for Catalans. Defending on the line is a minefield of arbitrariness and that's before the number of genuine tackles that became six again whilst the second and even third man flop seems to be ok again.

This season is rugby league's big chance to showcase the game in its best light and we get this kind of nonsense destroying the fabric of the game. Nobody can have the slightest qualm about heavy penalties for foul play but the level of pedantic wrong calls is something that the game cannot survive.

Both would play for me, pitts in second row and with how well hes been going in middles v fev and hull i would have batch at 13

So it was just an error then, not a schoolboy one. So the term 'schoolboy error' does not apply here, because if it did every error would be a 'schoolboy error' rendering the term even more useless than it already is.

An unforced error would be the correct term if you really must pursue this.

Ask him what's the difference between an ordinary mile and a country mile, also why should there be a shadow every time somebody has a doubt

Tom J received a caution

Case
ON/258/22
Tom Johnstone Wakefield, 2
Catalans v Wakefield
Super League, 19th February 2022 MRP
Late hit on passer at 1:27:15 Caution
Law 15.1(i)

just about sums it up error school boy error what ever, today I had an hob extractor collected and was told it happens in which I disagreed, I told him had others taken care when it was in their hands it wouldn't of happened same goes with billy bollard its not like its difficult to bend down and play the ball is it even with his sausage fingers, I expect nothing else from him championship player at best

What are you on about?

Championship players should still be able to play the ball.

BUT despite his error,
he made 27 tackles, missing none. Only Crowther, Ashurst, Hood and Kay made more.
And took 14 drives, more than any other player in the team.

So he may not be perfect, but you can't knock his effort for the team.

I live in the country… and also did for a while in the UK and I can verify an accurately measured country mile … is a fricken long way!

Please do not start a pick on Batty day for not playing the ball.Can we stop calling him a championship player, Though is performance was one of the best I have seen from him in a Wakfield shirt, and he looked like a forward who is going to have a good season .Seams like W P Is getting far more out of these players than Me Chester ever did.

I agree about Battye. Some don't like it cos he isn't built like Sam Burgess but he's effective and he gets his job done. I like him.

Ah but is it longer than a normal mile though.

It's a mile away from the Catalans Away Match Thread

Guilty as charged M'lord


Not like you to crack a funny though.

Man of Steel points for Saturday's game,
Sam Tomkins. 3 pts
Max Jowett. 2 pts
Brad Walker. 1 pt

How on earth did Tomkins get that , on Love Rugby League.com it said he kicked 4 goals unbelievable.

His name and past reputation. He didn’t have a terrible game but MOS never.

I hate rat boy as much as the next discerning human… but he was Catalans main creative spark and they did win the game!

I agree

we are competing no doubt but the fact is we are 0 from 2 and about to be 0 from 3 .

can the first win come against leeds?

Doesn’t make him MOS though.

I’ve no axe to grind for Jowitt but if you think on the day Tomkins was the better FB then you saw a very different game to me.

I observe through many lenses…