Mystified at no max. He showed himself as far and away our best full back last season.

Mickeymousekas owes us more than that one. He's cost us a lot of points in his brief tenure

Why are you mystified he’s still in rehab from an injury. It’s common knowledge so not sure why you’ve raised it tbh.

I think he's more effective in the second row, but the team would be stronger overall with him at prop. At least until Battye is back.

Not for me, I thought Green looked okay and Tangata didn’t seem to have much of a chance? From memory? I’d give em another game at least and just make sure we get Tanginoa the ball running wide a few times rather than one out rugby if we’re worried about the forward battle (seems some are questioning Wigan’s pack anyway? I’ve no idea either way).

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Well pardon me for not knowing that. Ever thought of just explaining that in a pleasant manner. Funnily enough the Beverley guardian didn't cover it

Also not that common as at least one other person mentions his absence on here and doesn't appear to know

I'd change your paper to the Cottingham Bugle

Chester did say after the Leeds game, that Jowitt,K Wood. And Battye, would be back for the Catalan game

No rudeness intended. Just telling you. There are more places to get news than the Beverly guardian, it’s been everywhere for weeks. Hence my surprise.

I to was hoping Jowitt would be back but I’m not surprised that’s all.

He did indeed but clearly they are not so the only logical explanation is they are not fit. Annoying because all three would get the nod from me. What I’m not is baffled.

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Apologies, didn't see that but the points the same, they will be back when ready.

Agree ,but if players are out rumers star spreading .about fallen out with Coaches,going to Catalan .That's one of the good things about Mr Carter having a zoom meeting every month it helps out there to bed. Interesting to ear J Westerman on about how much the culture of the club as change in the close season .And is in a far better place than last season

It was worse than that. If you watch the footage, he doesn't just tap it 15 yards away from the mark but actually runs away from the mark because the Wakey forwards were lined up in front of it and ran into the gap. Disgraceful.

From that description, with his free hand touching the ground, Tom would have been allowed to off-load it, so not completed.

It's very good for quashing dissent though, because the ref just asks them if they want to challenge it and they shut up.

The problem being that two or even three tacklers can be involved. One stays on his feet and clamps the ball and the others wrestle the player to the ground with the ball carrying arm still held up by tackler 1, who then gives the nod for the others to peel away before ripping the ball from the grounded player. Its a terrible rule and it looks awful.
I doubt that this was the intended outcome from the rule change, but that is what it has created.

Think the Captins challenge is ok ,changed two teams result from a loss to a win because it was used right

I always say it, captains challenge is probably the only positive rule they have brought in in the last 10 years and ironically the only one we haven't adopted over here.

It's interesting to see some on here call it a gimmick when as you say alegend, it is used quite successfully quite often and quite often changes games, I've heard the majority of coaches over here would prefer to have the rule, I know Chester certainly is in favour of it but the problem we have is not every game is televised so we then get into the unfair advantage at televised games (which I think we have anyway with the video ref!!).

I dont see how the new stripping rules improve the game at all, just another thing to be interpretated by the refs, funny how we adopt these rules from Aus but our refereeing standard's are no where near there's in the amount of resource each game gets, maybe a good idea in theory to have the same rules throughout but implementing them and judging them correctly is a completely different ball game over here.

We have now got the point where there are a set of new rules every year, its all getting a bit silly for me.

Though the OZZ ball strip rule is not in use this season .Could be wrong. but have not seen it so far.Think it should be kicked out ,Think the big clubs get the 50/50 calls as it is without refs calling that

But it isn't a new rule. It's an old rule added back in.

That's as maybe, but it's still sh*te.

Sort of. Always been a contentious rule and this variant is more subjective than most and is doomed to fail the moment a big team loses a game due to it being applied against them instead of for them.

I actually feel for the ref on this one, why create a rule so open to interpretation as to be ludicrous. The ref in a split second has to decide, are there two or more in the tackle, has the tackle actually been made, was the ball-playing arm touching the floor and if so is that a completed tackle or is it still live.

Stealing the ball as with reefing it in the tackle should be made illegal, if a player loses the ball in the impact that's his fault and a handover should take place. Ball stealing IMHO adds nothing to the spectacle of the game, it's a cheap trick, it's petty and a bit RU for me. Keep it simple, you get tackled, you get up and play the ball.