: Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:02 pm  

Very good game.

For too long refs have picked up on every single little niggle and blown up. As Stevo said, Bentham showed common sense, let the game flow an look at the spectacle we enjoyed as a result (partly).

A good hard rough, tough game, good to see some real fire!

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:05 pm  

Starbug wrote:

You mean when he ran sideways to avoid the ' hit '

Then he took how many balls after that ?

One was it

no i mean when he ran sideways to get to graham, he targetted him and ran at him, he did that when Graham was spoiling for a fight and he did it legally and fairly

Saints pack won it for them, but i would still say Bailey was the best forward on the field, had Peacock, Kylie, Burgess, Ablett, etc showed up at even 80% of what Bailey did Leeds would have won, but they didnt they were dominated by the saints pack

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:05 pm  

Did well. Controlled the fiery part of the game before it got out of hand.

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:07 pm  

Buffalo wrote:

Very good game.

For too long refs have picked up on every single little niggle and blown up. As Stevo said, Bentham showed common sense, let the game flow an look at the spectacle we enjoyed as a result (partly).

A good hard rough, tough game, good to see some real fire!

you say that, and i understand where you are coming from

but.... he let worse things go and punished lesser things, the PTB became a lottery for penalties it was pure guesswork as to what would be punished, i have no problem with us relaxing the rules on teh PTB, but there needs to be consistancy and we arent close to that at the moment

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:13 pm  

SmokeyTA wrote:

you say that, and i understand where you are coming from

but.... he let worse things go and punished lesser things, the PTB became a lottery for penalties it was pure guesswork as to what would be punished, i have no problem with us relaxing the rules on teh PTB, but there needs to be consistancy and we arent close to that at the moment

If you think you can do better , you know what to do

Lets face it you can do everything better than anybody

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:14 pm  

SmokeyTA wrote:

you say that, and i understand where you are coming from

but.... he let worse things go and punished lesser things, the PTB became a lottery for penalties it was pure guesswork as to what would be punished, i have no problem with us relaxing the rules on teh PTB, but there needs to be consistancy and we arent close to that at the moment

Fair point, he seemed to go in peaks & troughs - letting minor infringments go and five minutes later blowing up. I do think the game was better for letting it flow though.

I personally prefer the game with some leeway - let's hope the refs can get used to being a little more lenient and keep it consistent.

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:14 pm  

Starbug wrote:

If you think you can do better , you know what to do

Lets face it you can do everything better than anybody

cheers, the closest you have been to right in a long time

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:16 pm  

SmokeyTA wrote:

no i mean when he ran sideways to get to graham, he targetted him and ran at him, he did that when Graham was spoiling for a fight and he did it legally and fairly

Saints pack won it for them, but i would still say Bailey was the best forward on the field, had Peacock, Kylie, Burgess, Ablett, etc showed up at even 80% of what Bailey did Leeds would have won, but they didnt they were dominated by the saints pack

Bailey is a sh!thouse.

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:17 pm  

Buffalo wrote:

Fair point, he seemed to go in peaks & troughs - letting minor infringments go and five minutes later blowing up. I do think the game was better for letting it flow though.

I personally prefer the game with some leeway - let's hope the refs can get used to being a little more lenient and keep it consistent.

thats an inherent problem with 'letting it flow' because 'letting it flow' means allowing rules to be broken whilst punishing them same rules at another time,

what there needs to be is rules that mean we dont get 50 penalties a game, but where whenever a rule is broken it is punished

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:18 pm  

I thought Graham was better than Bailey, his all round play particularly in defence was superb, plus he had a hand in Wheeler's try which clinched it for Saints.

Bentham did very well in keeping control of the game, we've all been to games where we've said 'the ref has lost control', that didn't happen today and it certainly could of!