Hmmm.
You can possibly make a case for each of the two decisions individually, and that is how decisions should be assessed. The Linnett no try is a real stretch in my opinion, and Gaskell’s flop should have made it harder to overturn the on field decision. It’s one of those that the justification has to open with ‘Technically...’. The McQueen try was a 20-80, but I recall us getting one when Liam Watts scored for us a few years ago - maybe away at Castleford. That may have been before on field calls were sent up and it was still try or no try. The two together, both overturning on field decisions, from a VR from Huddersfield isn’t a great look.
Still, we won and I imagine there’s more than enough spite and bile about it on social media, so I’ll let it go.
Although we shouldn’t (imo) have been in that position, we dodged a bullet on the last minute strip. I did wonder if English was being cute and let it go a bit easily, and whether the same thought occurred to the ref. I also wonder to what, if any, extent the ref was aware that Kendall’s decisions might be consider ‘questionable’. We were playing with fire though! Nice not to get burned for once.
