I bet a good deal of your penalties are not even for going high. Doubtlessly, many of them will be for offside, not square, ball stealing etc. Unfortunately,modern rugby and its different rulings give referees far too much power in influencing a game. A lot of the matches in Championship 1 are very evenly contested and if a referee decides to absolutely cane you on the day for offences such as offside and not square and largely ignore offences from your opponents , you have very little chance of winning. No team in the Championship, imo, is good enough to play the ref and constantly triumph despite consistently huge penalty accounts against them. On your day,you will be capable of beating any team in the league, but if you are constantly on the wrong end of huge penalty counts,you will struggle. IMO,this is just not fair. A referee in rugby union or league can more or less give a penalty whenever they feel like it. If he is pedantic enough and constantly applying the letter of the law, the game will consist of an unending stream of penalties. At the moment, from the penalty counts I am reading in League Express, your team is struggling a lot more than most. The Featherstone and Doncaster match totals almost beggared belief. Is any team consistently that stupid? No they are not. Were Featherstone, Sheffield, Doncaster really that saintly or if a referee really had wanted to, could he have justifiably penalised these teams out of the game. I tend to think he could.

I just love a good old conspiracy theory

Oops, sorry! I called Leigh a Championship 1 side. I meant Championship team. I cannot get used to these leagues constantly changing names.

At Sheffield, if we had had as many penalties as Sheffield we would have murdered them...but we ended up winning...just. We gave away a penalty on almost every set! The fact we still won is amazing.

Weren't you miles ahead at Donny too at one point?

13-3 if I remember correctly the penalty count, and yes we were leading 24-6, when all of a sudden...penalty after penalty and then a sinbinning...ah well, that's how it goes...or is it??

I think we all know that all teams find themselves on the wrong end of penalty counts from time to time, but when a team virtually never wins a penalty count in their own league, surely questions have to be asked. When I see this happening to any team, I find this very frustrating. A lot of players put a lot of effort into training and playing. They should not have to face this.

questions have been asked but its answers that are required

Exactly. It will be very interesting to read the penalty count after your next match and to see if you have had anyone sin binned or sent off. It is unbelievable. What have you lot done to offend Mr.Cummins?

Its not Cummins its his henchman Tennant who 'rules' the Championship clubs

He's gone.

gone from Carnegie to Red Hall but is he still 'in charge'?