Thats a decent results for us given that he was due to miss at least one and could have been jet lagged for the other

With a bit of luck should only miss the Widnes game but he has gone to Australia so depending on when he comes back could still be a bit jet lagged.

... he didn't travel to Australia.

yes he did

According to the club site he was withdrawn from the Tonga squad, and attended the hearing at Leeds today, so has obviously not travelled abroad.

Radford has confirmed on the radio he is in Australia

Isn't he injured anyway?

Talking about discipline, I was talking to the master of it last Friday on Withernsea promenade.
No other than Mr Mick Crane, working for Halls doing some sea defence work on the beach.
Still puffing away on the fags, still the man.

Interesting the views people who defended our discipline as it's played a major part in our last two defeats

we will loose Watts for a couple of games at least and Griffin for a couple too for pushing Childs (which won't upset some who sit near me) so discipline is getting to be a big problem

Really, really frustrating.

Watts in particular should be pushing for a spot on the plane to the WC at the end of the year, I think he can be that good, but there's no way he'll be taken when his discipline is as poor as it is.

It's not just the incidents he's been charged with and copped bans for, but it's the giving away of needless penalties at crucial times or crucial areas of the field.

His name is CHILD child child ! Not child's as in the Brummy footy commentator shall we refer to watt's as watt from now on

We must be the dumbest team in the league . Our discipline is terrible .

Never been that bothered how he spells his name perhaps when your English is perfect ie Brummy or Footy then you can correct mine

His name is Adrian Chiles.

I've been saying that all season, stupid penalties killing us game after game.

It's worse than that because they usually follow an error so we go from attacking to defending our line in a few seconds. les cats had no chance of scoring last night if we played out our sets and kicked well

Watts gets Grade A charge, NFA-1 match. (Careless – flat hand off balance)

Griffin Grade B, 1-2 matches.

Watts charged grade A so he may escape a ban, not that I'll be putting my life savings on it. Griffin charged grade B so at least one game.

Regarding the game then yes Hull's players did some pretty idiotic things and fell for the baiting far too easily but the Catalans time wasting was so flagrant that even the Sky commentators were harping on about it. Plus we got to hear a fair amount of what the referee was saying. Now I'm no fan of Child at all but he was put under enormous and constant pressure by several Catalan players and at times was basically ignored by them. I would like to know the RFLs view on this where organised team dissent is used. As for time wasting the NRL has done much to speed up restarts - maybe its time for SL to consider how to deal with this problem.

watts got off lightly with that I reckon but it wasn't malicious so hopefully he'll get away with it. I didn't even see the griffin incident but any player who touches the ref is a first class fook wit IMO. They know what will happen.

This season is getting tedious.

Watts one is unexpectedly low IMO. Good news.

So we could be without:

fonua
ellis
thompson
watts
griffin
taylor
bin man
sneyd

Did bowden come back on? manu looked busted and I was surprised he came back. kelly still carrying a knock, connor playing with a broken finger. tuimavave playing with butter on his fingers and has forgotten how to tackle

It's more like an episode of casualty that a rugby match

And while I'm on a rant, shouldn't punching an opponent in the head be a red card?

What kind of illness has Thompson got, surely he will be back next week?

Talanoa and Ellis must be close, hopefully Fonua and Taylor back soon.

Doubtful, but Watts might get NFA.

I'd have litten on the bench, play him at hooker and use Houghton at LF.

I don't believe anything Radford says about injuries

I'm with you Dave. Every week we include Ellis and Talanoa in the squad and, lo and behold, no sign of them on match day. Why can't the club be honest with us.