How the bookies see the regular season so far is a two horse race, but with Leigh marginal favourites (5/6). That is of course because they already have the first fixture against us 'in the bag' and if we had won that then the odds would be the precise other way round. The reason they are favourites from a bookies POV is first we need to do one game better than them or have one less 'shock' result than them, even if we beat them in the return fixture which is therefore a 'must'.
Back to topic, Lowes was wrong to say publicly what he did, the general climate of referee-slagging has become a RL national pastime, and it's not because the officials are crap, but because the hysteria is encouraged from all angles, especially the Sky muppets. Lowes needs to realise that he's on the other side of the line, and, like a player, he needs to set the example of respecting authority and respecting the referee's decision.
Plus, there were other reasons why we lost at Leigh, and if you want to spend a spare minute of media interviews bagging the culprits then you'd want to start withthose at the top of the list. Which were all players Lowes had picked.
RL used to be a sport where the players invariably did show respect to the ref, but increasingly the hysteria is creeping into the playing squads, and now you see players reacting badly to decisions frequently, surrounding the ref etc. It needs sorting out. The referees would have my full backing if they decided that they were going back to the (not so) old days and penalising and marching any player who can't keep a lid on his gob or temper. It's RL, not fscking Twitter.
- He dropped it
