Re: Catalans v Leeds : Sun Sep 11, 2022 9:02 am  

As long as we don't get Liam Moore I don't care who the ref is

Re: Catalans v Leeds : Sun Sep 11, 2022 9:12 am  

Genuine question about the rules - is there still one for ungentlemanly conduct?

The reason is ask is Bentley. Now he didn't actually do anything wrong on Friday, but he was in everyone's ear, antagonising and, in some respects, masterfully playing opposition players. Surely the refs aren't that dumb (maybe they probably are) that they can't realise that he's not helping matters and making their jobs harder.

Bentley, like Connor, is a repeat offender. Time and time again however, it's the person who reacts who gets the penalty against them.

Re: Catalans v Leeds : Sun Sep 11, 2022 9:30 am  

Being in someone's ear is part of the game. More fool the people that react.

Unless he is forcing them to react with cheap shots and facials etc then nothing wrong a few verbals for me.

Re: Catalans v Leeds : Sun Sep 11, 2022 11:20 am  

sergeant pepper wrote:

Genuine question about the rules - is there still one for ungentlemanly conduct?

The reason is ask is Bentley. Now he didn't actually do anything wrong on Friday, but he was in everyone's ear, antagonising and, in some respects, masterfully playing opposition players. Surely the refs aren't that dumb (maybe they probably are) that they can't realise that he's not helping matters and making their jobs harder.

Bentley, like Connor, is a repeat offender. Time and time again however, it's the person who reacts who gets the penalty against them.

Apart from the attempted punch on Micky Mac before the Pearce sin-binning.

Re: Catalans v Leeds : Sun Sep 11, 2022 11:53 am  

Bentley dropped his elbow in to a players face on the floor (McMeekan was it?) and will be lucky to be playing Friday from the replay I saw. Leeds are probably owed one from the disciplinary though given the ridiculous Martin ban, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that comes this week.

Re: Catalans v Leeds : Sun Sep 11, 2022 2:53 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

Mess of a game. Catalans strength of having quality experience throughout their side has become their weakness because they’re now chocked full of old, slow players. The Catalans players and their crowd were a disgrace and should feel pretty embarrassed.

As for Leeds, they played the game. They have the games great wind up merchant in Bentley and as they did against us a couple of months back, they played to get under the oppositions skin. If we play them next week in a game of rugby, we’ll be fine but if we get involved in the niggle, as Catalans did last night, they could drag you down to their current level (and I say that with all due respect in acknowledging they’re missing plenty of bodies).

Played to get under your skin , we played you off the park

Re: Catalans v Leeds : Sun Sep 11, 2022 2:57 pm  

Father Ted wrote:

Child was the wrong appointment for the play offs. Last week was his first game back after being stood down for 6 weeks following the officiating shambles in the Leeds/Wigan fixture at Headingly.

He simply isn't good enough for play off or semi final rugby. His appointment to the C Cup final was an utter disaster especially after his abysmal game in the Cup Semi. His appointment to last night game was even worse. He proved it by only refereeing one team.

Re: Catalans v Leeds : Sun Sep 11, 2022 3:00 pm  

dr_feelgood wrote:

Apart from the attempted punch on Micky Mac before the Pearce sin-binning.

Well spotted , i guess you were there as no Cameras caught that one , so just maybe it did not happen

Re: Catalans v Leeds : Sun Sep 11, 2022 3:53 pm  

ploinerrhino wrote:

Played to get under your skin , we played you off the park

100% you did but it doesn’t take away from the fact that from the first tackle your guys were niggling away. No issues with that at all and we had no answer.

We’ll see how we get on Friday.

Re: Catalans v Leeds : Mon Sep 12, 2022 3:56 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

100% you did but it doesn’t take away from the fact that from the first tackle your guys were niggling away. No issues with that at all and we had no answer.

We’ll see how we get on Friday.

This Friday has nothing to do with your ridiculous statement