Re: RIP RL : Fri Sep 22, 2023 12:29 pm  

just_browny wrote:

If you get a four match ban for touching someone on the basis they could be injured with no better evidence than 'they are moving a bit slowly', anyone who has tackled Dudson this year should have received multi-game suspensions.

Great Post!!

Re: RIP RL : Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:00 pm  

4 matches for that is over the top, but Vaughan can count himself lucky he wasn't sent-off as the Stains player in question, Matautia, got red-carded and suffered a ban for doing the exact same thing last season.

Re: RIP RL : Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:09 pm  

Oxford Exile wrote:

An utterly ridiculous decision to ban a player for 'that'. Common sense has left the building and has been replaced by a system that is obviously terrified of litigation at the cost of the games heart and soul.

I USED to love Rugby League...not any more.

I totally agree, and have not posted for over a week.
The skill has all been coached out of the game, there's not a fair 10 meters at the play the ball, then there's disciplinary committees senseless decisions. The joy that I felt during the world cup games at the HJS has been consigned to history. Superleague is just a shadow of what our game used to be.

Re: RIP RL : Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:15 pm  

Tonight could be another nail in the coffin for me as a spectator; if we blow it, Salford and Leigh win and that lot from up the road somehow get the LLS after being dog poop for large parts of the year (remember all the wellens out threads on red vee!?) then I just may be done with this joke of a game.

Re: RIP RL : Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:28 pm  

RobRiches wrote:

You’re all spitting your dummies out because it’s a Warrington player. You all weren’t bothered when sione matautia was banned for the same offence.

We are probably seeing a reaction from a couple of blokes who genuinely like to get on with the game .Unfortunately, cheating is now creeping into the game but at least Hull seem to have got over the glut of timely injuries that used to blight every game a few years ago.

Re: RIP RL : Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:52 pm  

matt_wire wrote:

Tonight could be another nail in the coffin for me as a spectator; if we blow it, Salford and Leigh win and that lot from up the road somehow get the LLS after being dog poop for large parts of the year (remember all the wellens out threads on red vee!?) then I just may be done with this joke of a game.

How will you feel if Wire actually make 6th and then go on a winning run and win the Grand Final after being considerably more dog poop than Saints.

Re: RIP RL : Fri Sep 22, 2023 2:35 pm  

ImTopMan#1 wrote:

4 matches for that is over the top, but Vaughan can count himself lucky he wasn't sent-off as the Stains player in question, Matautia, got red-carded and suffered a ban for doing the exact same thing last season.

Actually being sent off in the last few minutes and getting three matches would have been preferable to a four match ban, at least that way he could have made the Grand final (its the hope that kills you)

Re: RIP RL : Fri Sep 22, 2023 2:42 pm  

sally cinnamon wrote:

How will you feel if Wire actually make 6th and then go on a winning run and win the Grand Final after being considerably more dog poop than Saints.

Aside from overjoyed, because we've finally won it, also pleased that there's another name on that trophy because the last four years have been boring AF, as the kids would say. My issue is more with how boring having the same winner every year is, not necessarily where they finished.

Re: RIP RL : Sun Sep 24, 2023 9:38 am  

I thought I was the lone Moaning Minnie when I walked away from the game five seasons ago and not attended ever since. One post got it spot on when he posted the game is now over coached. In my opinion the rot set in with Wane at Wigan when he introduced wrestling as part of the training regime and made the game as dull as GrecoRoman wrestling. He also insisted that at least three of his defenders be involved in tackling the player with the ball and remove themselves as slowly as possible. Gone are the days of kidology,dummies,sidesteps and changes of pace,skills developed as kids in the schoolyard. It's biff bash and constant kicking to barge over from short range for the try. If skill ever returns to the sport I'll be back but I won't hold my breath waiting.