It was surprising to see Washbrook (was he captain tonight?!) Take his knee to the Fev players head at that stage. Worthy of a ban. And how did Hock and Griffin not get binned for trading punches?
And yeah regarding posters on here not playing, it's not like Rovers have a clean bill of health. Im sure a few fans of both sides on here would show more discipline? It wouldn't be so bad if it was proper real tough players going head to head but you've got guys who feign a head injury to stop the game to milk a pen. Disgrace.

Could be a very costly victory that in terms of the season ahead.

Wtf are you talking about?

Connor picked the wrong man to wind up, he stayed a long way from Hock in the 2nd half.


Maybe he's not as stupid as some think.

Indeed.

The only stupid thing you can do with Hock is get into a conversation with him.

Dead set the dumbest bloke in rl.

It's definitely going to be a bit of a grind over the next month I think.

I think the referee had a repetitive strain injury to his card brandishing arm by that stage and he didnt want to risk further aggravating it.

We should have expected it with ramsay bolton in charge of fev

You were alluding to posters on here not the ones 'out there playing' to my original comment about Hull being a disgrace discipline wise, someone replied to you stating that it won't be long until you are with the injuries and bans, so I replied that Rovers aren't too far behind in that department (injuries anyway!) And that posters on here from either side would have shown better discipline than tonight..

How neither the onfield ref or Bentham deemed that just a penalty for 'a mistimed tackle' god only knows. That decision then set the tone for the rest of the game. Had Shaul not had his arms up to catch the ball he'd have likely had his head taken off. The ref needed to show authority at that point and failed. The yellow cards after that were a joke and made a mockery of the earlier decision not to use the card. No point throwing cards around like confetti afterwards either as it just fuelled the nigglely stuff. We got dragged into the scrap that Featherstone seemed to want late on, Faramino was dumb and needs to be smarter.

Costly win all round really.

If we can just somehow grind out a win next week (Rovers have plenty of problems themselves remember), Warrington is effectively a free hit and then hopefully a few will be back for the week after. We might just be able to ride it out ok.

Fingers crossed the disciplinary are kind to us and that a couple of the injuries arent as bad as they looked.

Radford's thoughts

[url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p066tr4yOn blunderside[/url

One of his better ones

Connor didn't have the sense to talk to him, Hock wouldn't have understood but instead tried to rough him up and gave him a facial. I think Radford advised Connor to stay clear in the 2nd half because he certainly did.

Fantastic interview!

you cant say radders doesnt tell it as it is

Spot on with the Water Boy comment.

I wouldn’t have liked to of been whoever it was who threw the ball at Litten , because he didn’t sound like he would be backwards in coming forward to them in the bar after the game. He seemed a tad annoyed about a few of the fev lot

Ref and Bentham should be charged with bringing game into disrepute, absolute shocker and knowing what we do about contact sport (any level, any country) it was entirely predictable what was going to happen, and it did.
His failure and that's what it was, steered the course of the game, FC should ask the RFL to investigate both he and Bentham, that early decision can only have happened due to intervention from elsewhere (keep the game close/not a runaway) or the official is bent/has a personal agenda or simply not fit to officiate in any capacity.
Not surprised Radford is furious, our fans and AP should be too.

As for Hock, he's not a sandwich short of a picnic, more like no rug, no basket, no pickled onions, no fizzy pop, nothing.

He certainly looked like he was about to give a card but then got a word in his ear. The contact was ok, so I would have been ok with it not being a red, but to show no card when the ball was so far away is a ridiculous decision.

It was just a horrible, spiteful game. Once Fev knew they couldnt handle us legally the niggle started, then the niggle turned into thuggery, and then we started to react and both teams just dragged each other down and down until the last 10 minutes was farcical. Had there been another 5 minutes left to play it could easily have ended up abandoned.

It was probably kind of entertaining for the neutral, but hope I never see Hull involved in another game like that again tbh.

He makes me p!ss, but on a more serious note, think that could be our season gone up in smoke at Post Office Road.
A debacle would best sum it up.

Correct. Absolutely disastrous night. At least we didn't go out as holders in the first round like we did at Odsal in 2006.

I see Hock stayed away from Manu all night but kept going for the little guys, he's a clown

Before the game I was thinking we were getting close to the 'throw all our eggs in one basket' with regard to CC retention.
I know it's the Grand Final we all crave, but hey, circumstances, and all that.
A triplet of black and white ribboned silverware lifting in the Wembley sun wouldn't have been bad compensation.

Think that's even shafted with the quarters only three weeks away.

If we can draw Leigh/Salford, Hudds/Wakey, Catalans/Whitehaven at home we can give it a good go.