Re: Castleford Match Thread : Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:36 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

The kind of things the Saints fans were saying to Mathers, though, were really embarrassing. They were spitting tweets at the bloke. It took Jamie Foster intervening to stop the bile. Embarrassing. I hope it doesn't put the Saints players off tweeting as I've really enjoyed following Wello's banter with Foster. Those two are hilarious sometimes.

Poor ole Mathers just forgot Foster's name.

I didn't see much of what Saints fans responded with, other than the odd one he retweeted where he'd been called a w***er but that's no doubt because I haven't really worked out how Twitter works!!

I thought it was disappointing that he seemed to tweet several times about the 'bad calls' they'd had. Our lads, after losing in similar circumstances to the auld enemy, seemed far more gracious in defeat than Mathers and, indeed, Matterson.

No call for 'bile' from the speccies though.

Maybe there's a lesson to be learned in players steering away from Twitter until the dust has settled after a game.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:36 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

huby had moved, he had his hand in the air to ask for help, if you know anything about triage, anyone asking for help, isnt that badly injured

Does a broken knee class as not "that badly injured"?

I think common sense should always rule, especially when it comes to players safety. If an honest prop forward lies pretty prostrate then I would think the referee should use his commen sense (fairplay we're talking about Bentham here) and stop the game- especially when 4-5 people surround said player for a good 30-40 seconds before Bentham even decided to consider stopping the game.

Re: Castleford Match Thread : Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:41 pm  

D.W!! wrote:

Does a broken knee class as not "that badly injured"?

I think common sense should always rule, especially when it comes to players safety. If an honest prop forward lies pretty prostrate then I would think the referee should use his commen sense (fairplay we're talking about Bentham here) and stop the game- especially when 4-5 people surround said player for a good 30-40 seconds before Bentham even decided to consider stopping the game.

my point is that immeadiately after the the tackle it was clear he was hurt, but not (spinal) serious as he was moving, as the ref follows play it is then up to his assisstants to draw his attention to the seriousness of the injury