Grand final bad call : Sun Oct 14, 2018 3:24 pm  

Sam Tompkins tackle/trip was it a red ? yes imop,looked it 3 times his arm never touches the wire player for me straight red

Re: Grand final bad call : Sun Oct 14, 2018 3:47 pm  

If he was attempting an old fashioned hoik, it's not a red, or maybe not even a yellow.

For me, the bad calls were the allowing the water carriers on at every single scrum and the decision to stop the game for every single injury. Hicks slowed that game to a crawl. They need to cut out the water carriers at scrums. Every knock on turned into a protracted rest. The game finished at 8.15pm. That means that an 80 minute game took 120 minutes (if you take off the 15 minutes at half-time). Dreadful drawn-out spectacle.

Re: Grand final bad call : Sun Oct 14, 2018 3:57 pm  

I always thought water carriers can only enter the field of play when your team is attacking not defending?

Re: Grand final bad call : Sun Oct 14, 2018 4:20 pm  

cosmicat wrote:

Sam Tompkins tackle/trip was it a red ? yes imop,looked it 3 times his arm never touches the wire player for me straight red

Red for me all day long but then again it depends who you are and who you play for I suppose

Re: Grand final bad call : Sun Oct 14, 2018 4:28 pm  

At the very least it was a yellow sin bin and knees to the head defenatly red

Re: Grand final bad call : Sun Oct 14, 2018 4:41 pm  

cosmicat wrote:

I always thought water carriers can only enter the field of play when your team is attacking not defending?

They can enter whenever the clock has stopped

Re: Grand final bad call : Sun Oct 14, 2018 4:44 pm  

Sure I've seen wc on the pitch in playing time?

Re: Grand final bad call : Sun Oct 14, 2018 4:53 pm  

You have. The Saints geezer was on almost continually in our last meeting at Belle Vue.

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Re: Grand final bad call : Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:33 pm  

Can't see a problem with a water carrier coming on as long as he doesn't interfere with play

If have binned Tomkins twice.

Re: Grand final bad call : Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:54 pm  

In the bad old days Samkins wouldn't have been on the field to do the second one. I had to laugh how Eddie Hemmings compared the incident when the Wigan player slid into Charnley with Sm's blatant knees job.