As a neutral thats the way i saw it, Bentham could and should have pulled you for offside several times but seemed hell bent on just hitting Leeds.

Fox = sin bin Pro foul.

Unless you was at the game how can you tell that we were offside????

In the first 10mins Leeds were a good yard or two offside on the flanks and it went unpunished, then the crowd really got on the touchy's back and I think it was obvious something had to be done.

I know Justin's big thing in training is making the line and is quite strict in that department as he see's those as silly penalties. What I did notice though was that while Leeds were getting away with it someone must have seen this and alerted Rovers to do the same and we did in fact get away with it most of the time however not to the extremes that Leeds were trying to get away with it.

Cant say Bentham had a mare though, he penalised what was in front of him, if Leeds want to be consistently offside he's going to get to grips with it, I love the way fans like to blame the refs for everything yet if Leeds were onside he cant penalise it, if Fox had got off straight away he wouldnt of been sent to the bin...etc maybe time to start taking responsibility instead of passing the buck?!

He can only see whats in front of him?


I think Bentham needs to turn his head in a different direction then, blatant offsides by Rovers on their try line goes unnoticed a few times by Bentham and laying on in the tackle also go a miss


poor game by Bentham

Scoreline definately flattered rovers cos of it.

Reading this thread it seems that all Rovers fans think that Fox was hard done too and FC fans think it was a correct decision.

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FWIW I think that 3 tries to 1 means Leeds deserved it overall, but I honestly think a penalty against Fox would have been sufficient and Bentham was balancing things up, subcontiously he would not have liked Leeds to lose because of a man down and that didn't help Fox.

Jakes try would have been given on another night and I bet we see many decisions given this season that are less of a try than his was (or wasn't), consistancy is still going to be a problem with the video refs.

Last night at the game I thought it was an awful decision but that goes without saying, after watching the game on the box I thought it was the correct decision. I think if Fox hadnt made the extra attempt to turn McGuire than he would have been ok.

By this do you mean the wrestling cr@p Leeds were trying all game.

Yep, the length of time he was on wasn't the problem, it was attempting to flip McGuire over long after the tackle had been completed that was. Bentham had no choice; it's an automatic sin-binning.

youve only beaten a very poor Wigan team so far, lets see how you fair against Leeds.

but Diskin did this earlier on and only gave a pen away, one of the many (persistant) that HE gave away.

but i think the ref had a pretty good game TBH, some poor decisions against both teams but other than that he did well, esp standing up to Sinfield like he did, some refs would have wilted.

Firstly, he didn't do anything anywhere near as obvious. Secondly, Diskin's infringement didn't come after a clean break and didn't prevent a try-scoring chance. That's what made Fox's an unavoidable sin-binning.

it must have been obvious cause the ref penalised him didnt he? fair point on the try scoring part thou, i also thought that Paul Cooke had tripped Maguire in the build up to Fox's sin bin but when i watched Sky this morning you couldnt tell.

Only if you're assuming both that referees don't make mistakes and that they also only see obvious things.

to be fair to the ref i thought he was ok, a few daft calls but other than that not bad at all

I would agree , the attempt to turn over McGuire gave Bentham the option to reach for the yellow card.

Lets see how you do against Wigan !!

Also let me correct you. Wigan were not 'very poor' as you say, we were just the better team !

As a Wakey fan who naturally doesn't like Leeds yet still wishes Peter Fox all the best take it from me Rovers fans. It was a blatant Pro foul end of story and the sending off was the only option - sorry.

It was worth a trip to the bin, but what is dissapointing is that it went totally against the standard Bentham had set for Leeds who persistantly got penalised and back chatted with only McShane seeing the bin late on.

Agreed. Bentham was inconsistent with the offsides too, pinging Leeds constantly and letting Hull get away with it.

you're back then

P.S. Please don't call us Hull, it's extremely offensive.

I apologise I thought you were both from Hull. Just that one's FC and the others KR.

Yes, but generally they're the ones referred to as Hull, whilst we are commonly known as Rovers, or The Robins, or (less commonly) The King of Kings.

Well you do regularly get crucified.