Re: Saints in the cup : Sat Jun 17, 2023 10:28 pm  

So glad you lost today. Thinking it’s acceptable to forearm smash a prone player.

Why do teams who are awful resort to being as dirty as possible?

Re: Saints in the cup : Sat Jun 17, 2023 10:37 pm  

TheWarringtonWolve69 wrote:

So glad you lost today. Thinking it’s acceptable to forearm smash a prone player.

Why do teams who are awful resort to being as dirty as possible?

19 games !!!!

Re: Saints in the cup : Sat Jun 17, 2023 10:58 pm  

From viewing it. It looks like Griffin asks Kendall what the penalty was for. Then he seems to point towards the screen, possibly suggesting that he was asking Kendall if he could have used the video ref?

Then Griffin turned and was walking away and said something to himself. He didn't direct what he said at Kendall.

A good referee would have had the people skills to deal with that situation.

We had a great, value for money, entertaining first half and then Kendsll ruined it for everyone, because despite the experience he has, these types of occasions are too high for his standard of refereeing.

I don't blame Griffin one bit. A more competent referee would have dealt with that situation by laughing at Griffin and telling him to go have a half-time cuppa.

I say Griffin did nothing that merited even a ten minutes sin bin. And I challenge Kendall, the touch judges and anyone at the RFL to prove me wrong by telling us what was said..

Re: Saints in the cup : Sat Jun 17, 2023 11:14 pm  

giddyupoldfella wrote:

From viewing it. It looks like Griffin asks Kendall what the penalty was for. Then he seems to point towards the screen, possibly suggesting that he was asking Kendall if he could have used the video ref?

Then Griffin turned and was walking away and said something to himself. He didn't direct what he said at Kendall.

A good referee would have had the people skills to deal with that situation.

We had a great, value for money, entertaining first half and then Kendsll ruined it for everyone, because despite the experience he has, these types of occasions are too high for his standard of refereeing.

I don't blame Griffin one bit. A more competent referee would have dealt with that situation by laughing at Griffin and telling him to go have a half-time cuppa.

I say Griffin did nothing that merited even a ten minutes sin bin. And I challenge Kendall, the touch judges and anyone at the RFL to prove me wrong by telling us what was said..

What a stupid post, id say the video of Josh Griffin sat with his missus, head in hands in the changing room suggests that he knows hes just let his team mates down, obviously thats just a guess though, much like what youve just guessed.

Re: Saints in the cup : Sat Jun 17, 2023 11:20 pm  

bishops finger wrote:

What a stupid post, id say the video of Josh Griffin sat with his missus, head in hands in the changing room suggests that he knows hes just let his team mates down, obviously thats just a guess though, much like what youve just guessed.

What a patheticly, ridiculous, stupid, silly, dumb post that is by you.

Re: Saints in the cup : Sun Jun 18, 2023 6:56 am  

Haven't had the pleasure of watching the full game yet, only saw about 10 mins, Trueman and Welsbys scores.

Sounds like we were on the wrong end of some iffy calls. On the Griffin red its just dumb from him. Saying that Kendall comes across as though he has a massive superiority complex and isn't a great communicator.

Saw enough of the game to not pick Dwyer for next week. Said he was a headless chicken when we were linked with him last season.

Would I have taken that performance before the game? Probably, but do wonder what might have been if no card was shown

Looks like we'll be missing Griffin, Taylor and possibly Hoy and Fash for next week.

Re: Saints in the cup : Sun Jun 18, 2023 7:30 am  

I was impressed by our ability to still create space out wide with our shape in that second half. Couple of opportunities created out there. Really like the look of the direction out attack is going in- fluid and expansive.

Also, what’s the point in giving him the ten minutes to calm down and then instantly giving him the red? I’ve never seen the cards used this way (like football) in rugby.

Re: Saints in the cup : Sun Jun 18, 2023 7:32 am  

TheWarringtonWolve69 wrote:

So glad you lost today. Thinking it’s acceptable to forearm smash a prone player.

Why do teams who are awful resort to being as dirty as possible?

What score did we end up beating you t’other week?

[Mild Rover]

Re: Saints in the cup : Sun Jun 18, 2023 7:49 am  

It’ll be interesting to see what Griffin said. There’s an area between harsh and fair, occupied by “would a Saints player have got the same card for saying the same thing?”

Have Hull started pushing an extra player to their right when defending in their own twenty? I noticed against Warrington at Magic that Wire’s attack going down that side was running into a lot of traffic - but going the other way, Hull looked a bit stretched. Similar in the first half yesterday. Might just be my perception, but I could see sense in it… until other teams work it out.

[Mild Rover]

Re: Saints in the cup : Sun Jun 18, 2023 7:53 am  

Whatamidoinghere? wrote:

What score did we end up beating you t’other week?

It is somebody (probably) pretending to be a Saints fan, pretending to be a Warrington fan. Don’t ask me why!