I can't believe silverwood bottled the red card. Sending off all day long for me that one and no doubt other teams will benefit when he cops a ban. I hope it's a lengthy one

Doubtful. Although it wasn't Dave Taylor, so who knows.

Did campese try gauging Shaul?

Didn't see anything, but sure if he did it'll be cited.

Apparently in the scuffle after krs 2nd rower dragged our halfback about then dropped on his face! Didn't go near Ellis & co though did he.

He punched him by the look of it 19.00 minutes gone

straight red for that spear tackle, of course he scores when he comes back on!

thought silverwood was awful but will watch the game tomorrow again

joke decision of the match to put scott taylor on report for something that was completely accidental and he had no chance of avoiding once the rovers player slipped going into the tackle

On the spear tackle Lunt should have been shown Red by Silverwood as Lunt not only tried once but then when he failed with his first effort then tried again and succeeded. Lunt should quite rightly see a ban for at least 2 games for that.

As for Scott Taylor thought fair enough for the penalty even tho not a lot he could have done but to then see him put on report is a joke. Shane Silverwood missed the selfsame tackle on Yeaman later in and didn't even give a penalty.

Lunt should have been sent off. Hopefully he'll cop a ban and I'll look forward to the meltdown from their fans.

Allgood was lucky not to be binned for dissent.

Probably confused how Silverwood could miss the blatant forward pass he was moaning about.

Momentum

Just thought Allgood was being friendly and giving Silverwood a pat on the back.

Best team won on the day, no complaints from me BUT do one with that momentum bollox

Just seen a video on youtube of campese punching shaul while someone is holding him. Wonder why he didn't try it on tala, fonua or one of the forwards? Hopefully he won;t be banned and dave taylor can trample on him next week

To be fair, his hands and the ball are facing backwards when he releases teh ball

I think he made about 15 of his 24 metres that he made all match running to silverwood

Nowt wrong with that pass.

Not a great tackle that one and he will no doubt cop a ban but the inconsistencies are getting worse, that was probably the 5th spear tackle of the day, there were two in two plays in the previous game (or maybe the one before) yet only penalties given. The rule needs to be clear, is it a red, yellow or a penalty.

Thought Silverwood did ok to be fair, the ref in the Hudds game decided that forward passes didn't exist, Silverwood seemed to ping most of them. The one thing he should have got a grip of was the goading of the other players from each side, he needed to stop the constant 'congratulating' opposition players for mistakes made if they want to stop the inevitable fighting.

The rule is quite clear.

It's a penalty if a player's legs go above the horizontal but he isn't driven into the ground or dumped onto his head/neck. It's a straight red if, like Lunt, you bring the legs WAY up and drive the pplayer into the ground.

Lunt should have got red. Silverfish bottled it. Simple.


Of course you did. His at times bizarre decisions helped keep you in the game.

He should have given campese 10 minutes for whining at him all game.

As for spear tackles, there are degrees of danger with these. Some are just players going over the horizontal where there is no real danger but others see the player being forced head down into the ground. The one from lunt falls into the 2nd category and he should have walked for me. If one of our players had done it and seen red I'd have had no complaints.

Take the black and white specs of for a while and re watch it. Better team won in the end by a score that reflected the game but to say silverwood kept us in it is laughable.

Thought he did OK, missed a couple of things for both sides, some fans just love to moan about the ref.

By the letter of the law, its a red card. It's an very dangerous tackle. There was nothing else even close to it in the rest of the Magic weekend. However, in the reality of the situation, I didn't think it was deliberate and more careless as a result of body position, so while very dangerous I was happy with the yellow.

Well, if Lunt hadn't have been on the field, you wouldn't have had a chance. By the letter of the law, that tackle is a red.

He should have sent Lunt off for the spear tackle. Taylor was never a penalty and he failed to penalise an identical incident involving a Rovers player. His control of the ruck was terrible - some of the slowest PTBs of the weekend. And that's just off the top of my head. On the plus side I thought he handled the punch-up well.

Not the worst performance by a ref but hardly what I'd describe as a good one. But then some people just want to avoid criticising bad performances by officials so that they can sit on a high horse I guess.