Rugby League

[Sloop67]

Super League starts tonight with the Hull derby

[DaveF]

I recorded it so watching now. Hull are getting a doing after 20 mins and lucky it's only 0-8.

Sky are showing a few NRL warm up games (season starts early March) and the annual Maori v Indigieous clash is 7am Friday morning.

[LancashireHibby]

Watched the Hull derby on Thursday, went to the Leigh game last night and flicked between Cas/Wigan and Catalans/Warrington tonight. The new rule interpretations haven’t been quite as disastrous as I first expected but the 13 cards shown in one round of fixtures compared to 83 in the whole of last season is going to become troublesome by round three or four!

[DaveF]

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Watched the Hull derby on Thursday, went to the Leigh game last night and flicked between Cas/Wigan and Catalans/Warrington tonight. The new rule interpretations haven’t been quite as disastrous as I first expected but the 13 cards shown in one round of fixtures compared to 83 in the whole of last season is going to become troublesome by round three or four!

Agree with that. I know they are trying to protect players but it's going to mean a lot of spells in the bin as a result.

[DaveF]

Hull KR beat Leeds 22-12 in a tight, scrappy game on a heavy pitch.

2 more sin bins for head contact to add to the total.

Looking forward to Wigan v Penrith on Saturday night.

[DaveF]

WTF is going on this season? Hull get another red card for absolutely nothing untoward whatsoever.

Ridiculous and it's going to ruin watching the games this season.

Jon Wilkin going crackers at HT about it and rightly so.

[Sloop67]

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WTF is going on this season? Hull get another red card for absolutely nothing untoward whatsoever.

Ridiculous and it's going to ruin watching the games this season.

Jon Wilkin going crackers at HT about it and rightly so.

Didnt see tonight's match but I thought the second yellow card last night was a bit dubious,and they seemed desperate to get the first yellow upgraded to red and seemed to think that may yet happen. I'm kind of hoping that it will settle down after a few weeks , Refs tend to clamp down early in the season . Are the officials for the world club challenge English or Australian?

[DaveF]

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Didnt see tonight's match but I thought the second yellow card last night was a bit dubious,and they seemed desperate to get the first yellow upgraded to red and seemed to think that may yet happen. I'm kind of hoping that it will settle down after a few weeks , Refs tend to clamp down early in the season . Are the officials for the world club challenge English or Australian?

The red card was a shocker. It's an accidental, small scale bump of heads in a tackle. Nothing in it at all, yet they seemed it a red. The game is screwed if they don't amend this new rule.

No idea who is in charge tonight but I hope they don't play to super league rules.

[HH81]

Problem you have is there was only one insurance company willing to cover the game and they wanted the head protected as part of it.

Also you have a load of ex players trying to say ruined their lifes and go through court for compensation as reckon didn't know the risks.

Finny enough I go to championship and league 1 games and not noticed any difference really so super league seems to be one unable to play to these new rules.

[Sloop67]

First Blood to the pie eaters Wigan 4-0 Penrith

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Wigan 4- 6 Panthers

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Wigan 10-6 Penrith

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Wigan 10- 12 Penrith. HT

[DaveF]

Penrith should be well clear. Caught on the last tackle far too often.

[DaveF]

That's not a try. These super league refs are having a 'mare this season.

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Warriors 16 -12 Panthers

[Sloop67]

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That's not a try. These super league refs are having a 'mare this season.

Definitely short of the line for me

[Sloop67]

Panthers having a real mare

[DaveF]

Another terrible decision from the ref going in favour of Wigan. Penrith should be out of sight but have been so poor in attack.

[Sloop67]

Been a couple dodgy calls tonight

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Wigan 16-12 Penrith FT

[DaveF]

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Been a couple dodgy calls tonight

Absolutely. Penrith were poor but got some terrible decisions against them. The one at the end was more of a try than the one Wigan got.

[HH81]

Ref from Wigan what do you expect.

[LancashireHibby]

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Ref from Wigan what do you expect.

Tbf he wasn’t the only making the call for the video ref. I went to the game last night and everyone around me was amazed that Wardle’s try was given when it seemed pretty clear that he was short of the line. Thought Wigan deserved it overall though.

Salford v Castleford turned in to a decent game this afternoon and the refereeing decisions didn’t seem quite as front and centre as some of the other games.

On the insurance issue, find out who was insuring the game last night and sign them up!

[cabbageandribs1875]

after 41 straight home wins for St Helens against Salford going back 44 years Salford finally win against a 12-man St Helens side 24-20


Leeds Rhinos come back from 16-0 down at Leigh to win 22-16

[DaveF]

I turned over to the Saints game after that shocking Leeds first half so good to read that Leeds bounced back.

Salford almost made a mess of it but 3!late tries got them.over the line. Frantic but enjoyable watch - and a deserved red card for Percival.

[cabbageandribs1875]

Rhinos v a St Helens side tonight that will still be smarting from that defeat against Salford


a rehearsal for next weeks Challenge Cup tie

[LancashireHibby]

Good contest so far

[cabbageandribs1875]

Rhinos littered with individual errors now, kicking out from the restart is ridiculous

they will get hammered now


and all from that ridiculous restart st helens go up and get another try 60 mins played 8-18 game over, Rhinos are spent but to be honest they've been spent from around 25 mins



nice seeing Meslier & Rutter watching on, Wayne Rooney a big fan of Rhinos as well

[DaveF]

I thought Leeds were well in the game but had a few brain farts where they just threw it away. Still had chances to get back into it but too many errors cost them. Good game to watch.