Campese gouging?

That's a slap, never a gauge.

Looks like he's trying to gauge his mouth in the last pic

Thought Cats were shocking yesterday, no doubt they'll be better at the weekend but they do turn in the odd shocker.

Just watching the game now & campese does put his fingers in shauls face!

That is a clear gouge.. his hand moves from the top to the bottom of his eye and Imo he's a lucky boy not to be charged and banned for a couple of games. I thought campese was better than that, and maybe it's a culmination of been in and out with injuries but their is no place for that in our game. He was after trouble all game and constantly whining at the ref... It worked for so long until we took hold of the game

Dirty 2@! Thought a kr fan would say it's a slap! Watch it at speed pal it's no slap.

Yes I watched it aswell deffo no slap. Shaul even tries to pull away very sharply as his finger gets close to his eye

Even if it was only a slap Campese still went after one of the smallest players on the pitch while he was being held back by another player. Cowardly.

They would be uproar over on ghost town if that would have been an FC player.

Well it was a big back rower what was bullying Sneyd that kicked it off!

Wasn't just any back rower mate . it was the best back rower on the pitch

They call us fickle & arrogant. Eh mate.

Has that claim actually been made? Crikey. Takes delusional to a whole new level.

Yes I read that and I think he was being serious

If putting your hands on the ref is a grade b offence why wasn't he sent off? It's hardly debatable whether he;s guilty or not

I think there were two attempts to gauge Shaul.

Thie first is Campese shoving Albert Belly out of the way then reaching at arms length in a swiping downward motion across the face. That's actully the bottom photo here, and is at 18.59 in the Sky footage. Couple of seconds later it is actually Lunt who has the second go. That is Lunt's hand you can see in the top two photos, and you clearly see Shaul flinch backwards and duck downwards as he feels the fingers near his eyes.19.04 on the footage.

Well, we have a right couple of new charmers in the Rovers team this season, don't we? Campese and Lunt - CLunt. Reminds me of that old pantomime villain CLint Newton but this pair are properly nasty.

Funniest moment of the match for me? Campese protesting to the touchie after Naughton's try. It was right in front of us as we were down the side in the corner. He ran after the touchjudge, was ignored, took out his lime green gumshield and threw it on the floor. An actual real live and almost literal dummy spit. He stared at it on the ground and I actually thought he was going to jump up and down on it in a tantrum. Comedy gold, barely 2 minutes after the spiteful scrap.

Petulant type, then.

Campo was in a right mood all game.

Should have got a Grade C charge of being a big girl's blouse.

The same poster compared Thornley's performance to Meninga after their Leeds victory

In the posters defence (can't remember who it was) he actually said Blair was the best back rower on the field until he had to switch to centre. Blair was causing quite a few problems before he had to switch to be fair

Anyway you look at it it was an embarrassing statement. Ellis wasn't only the best 2nd rower he was the best player on the park. You went 10-0 up and looked reasonable comfortable. Ellis went off and we scored 16 and you looked rattled and lost a bit of discipline. Ellis back on and the whole team seemed to calm down and play.

Massive influence and almost goes unnoticed as its what he does, remember Mick Vella having a similar influence with us back in the day.

Ellis always makes the big drive to get us on the front foot again, it's easy as an onlooker to forget how much harder defending is when you're constantly tracking back instead of getting up in their faces

Certainly doesn't go unnoticed with me, he's absolutely fantastic and we are without doubt a different team when he's off the pitch. It happens week after week, look at how many tries we concede when he has his spell on the sidelines, it isn't a coincidence. Radford generally rests him 10 mins either side of half time and for me I count down the minutes for his return.

Is it just me but think Bowden has been quiet the last couple of games. like to see Thompson back in the squad maybe instead of washbrooke

Although trying to work out exactly what the logic behind the disciplinary procedures and panel is rather like trying to knit fog... they seem to be undervaluing and underplaying the spear tackle.

On the pitch you now get done for a spear tackle if the legs come over the horizontal, which has resulted in some harsh penalties. But once it gets to the disciplinary procedure we're seeing some horrible ones, like Lunt's get one match or nothing at all. Dave Taylor has been dropping people on their head for weeks and only copped one match.

Similarly, since that Fanny Maguire nonsense with Sneyd last season, any sort of contact around the knees and what have you is massively over punished, resulting in that ridiculous charge for Watts after Wigan. You are meant to tackle low down at the end of the day, but because there's been a couple of high profile injuries they're now punishing perfectly good tackles.

Of course, all of this goes out of the window when somebody gets injured. If Watts had broken his neck on Sunday, which he could easily have done having been deliberately turned upside down and driven into the turf well after the ball had gone, then no doubt Lunt would have got six to eight games, but because he was lucky and didn't get hurt he only gets one. Which is a farce in itself - look at Ellis last season, really bad injury with nobody near him. Shouldn't be in consideration when looking at these things.