Super League 09 Round 6 spoilers.

amacachi

Friday 20th March 09
Hull FC v Castleford Tigers KO 20:00
Salford City Reds v Wigan Warriors KO 20:00
St. Helens v Leeds Rhinos KO 20:00

Saturday 21st March 09
Catalans Dragons v Bradford Bulls KO 18:00

Sunday 22nd March 09
Celtic Crusaders v Wakefield Wildcats KO 19:00
Huddersfield Giants v Harlequins RL KO 15:00
Warrington Wolves v Hull Kingston Rovers KO 15:00

Hull, Huddersfield and the rest away wins I reckon. Should be fun tonight, neither Saints nor Leeds playing at full tilt yet this year.

amacachi

Complete and utter bull**** refereeing in the second half. The elbow not even put on report, penalty for Leeds for, I'm assuming, a grapple tackle. Leeds go flying in and no punishment.
Then in the lead up to the try the most obvious grapple tackle you could ever wish to see from Leeds goes unpunished. Total BS.

*EDIT* I'll admit I was wrong, it was a shoulder, not an elbow.

amacachi

Doesn't look like it matters :P


What ya reckon toomevara? Just outclassed tonight?

couerdelion

amacachi wrote: »

Doesn't look like it matters :P


What ya reckon toomevara? Just outclassed tonight?

I don't think Leeds wee outclassed. For whatever reason they didn't look up for it. They looked lethargic and lazy in defence. Whilst you may think the refeering was bad for Saints as a Leeds fan I though the he had red vee tinted glasses on and allowed Saints to slow the ball down way too much. Leeds thrive on quick ptb and once hat was robbed looked void of ideas.

amacachi

You're saying that as a Leeds fan, as a neutral I'll say it looked to me that it looked like both teams were very slow getting up after completing a tackle. There was the one dodgy decision against Jones-Buchanan for a flop, but there was a similar one given against Saints.
Maybe it's just from watching NRL yesterday morning I was expecting quicker PTBs.

couerdelion

amacachi wrote: »

You're saying that as a Leeds fan, as a neutral I'll say it looked to me that it looked like both teams were very slow getting up after completing a tackle. There was the one dodgy decision against Jones-Buchanan for a flop, but there was a similar one given against Saints.
Maybe it's just from watching NRL yesterday morning I was expecting quicker PTBs.

Are you having a laugh? The WC showed that the southern hemisphere refs allow more slowing down of the ptb than the Northern hemispere refs which was one of the complaints.

And yes, I am a biased Leeds fan

amacachi

couerdelion wrote: »

Are you having a laugh? The WC showed that the southern hemisphere refs allow more slowing down of the ptb than the Northern hemispere refs which was one of the complaints.

And yes, I am a biased Leeds fan

With the two referees it seems to have sped up an awful lot though.
The commentators on Sky last night were praising the ref for not awarding more penalties. I say give more penalties and eventually there'll be less interference and the penalty count will come back down.

toomevara

amacachi wrote: »

Doesn't look like it matters :P


What ya reckon toomevara? Just outclassed tonight?

Been away all weekend amacachi, haven't watched the match, will watch this evening..was told was a good game all round?...

Anyone know whats going on at the Celtic crusaders..just heard tonight's game been called off through 'unforeseen circumstances'...curious....

toomevara

couerdelion wrote: »

Are you having a laugh? The WC showed that the southern hemisphere refs allow more slowing down of the ptb than the Northern hemispere refs which was one of the complaints.

And yes, I am a biased Leeds fan

Totally agree, the carry on at the play the ball in NRl is a joke, and its one of the main reasons we tend to do so badly in international competition...

amacachi

toomevara wrote: »

Been away all weekend amacachi, haven't watched the match, will watch this evening..was told was a good game all round?...

Anyone know whats going on at the Celtic crusaders..just heard tonight's game been called off through 'unforeseen circumstances'...curious....

It was a decent match, hard for you to watch perhaps :P

If you hear anything about tonight's cancellation will ya give this thread a shout? The language in the RFL's statement and Crusaders' involvement don't fill me with hope.

toomevara

amacachi wrote: »

It was a decent match, hard for you to watch perhaps :P

If you hear anything about tonight's cancellation will ya give this thread a shout? The language in the RFL's statement and Crusaders' involvement don't fill me with hope.

I tend to agree, it sounds more than a little ominous and when placed in context of recent resignations at the Crusaders..I hope the RFL's decision to go with the Crusaders over Widnes is not about to be proved wrong...

toomevara

Something serious definitely afoot...rlfans.com has just slapped an injunction on any threads discussing the issue until the official announcement from the rfl.

The rfl site is currently down, nothing on the crusaders site and I cant access the Wakey site either...worrying times

amacachi

RLFans.com isn't accessible for me right now, and I noticed the RFL's site was down earlier and SuperLeague.co.uk is VERY slow to load. Maybe it's just a coincidence and they're having problems with their hosting? :P

toomevara

I've heard from a Wakey friend..not confirmed by the RFL, but a very,very serious injury took place in the reserves game....I don't want to comment or speculate, but it appears that the medical team for the Crusaders were involved and had to take a critically injured player to receive attention...there was therefore no cover available for the first team clash...

amacachi

Hmmm, hope he's OK. I've mixed feelings about that because I don't know how the lad is now. The fact the RFL are putting it off still doesn't feel good.

Do people not realise that putting off announcements is the worst thing they can do?! :P

ctrl-alt-delete

Confirmed on sky sports,

21 year old reserve player Leon Walker has died

RIP

amacachi

Just caught the Super League Show on BBC, Bulls got fairly lucky with the decisions, awful kick with a minute left from the Dragons to handover possession.