I’m surprised that the RFL deemed Westwood’ high tackle as ‘sin bin sufficient’, looked a blatant red card to me.



If Hauraki is banned, I imagine we will see Hock moved into either loose or the backrow with Hansen and Paterson with Lama Tasi returning to take the vacant prop position. Best scenario all round, because Hock is far more dangerous running outwide than he is in the middle of the park.

If hauraki did a cannonball challenge then he deserves the ban but how westwood got away with his forearm smash is beyond me!

Not too fussed the committee aren't meeting until October 10th according to the RFL website.

Can the RFL get anything right?

Did they state which year

Yes hats off to them they did manage to get the correct year. They must have one of those big year planners in the office.

Just seen the highlights and if Walne gets 10 minutes how does Westwood not get marched with a red. One was clumbsey the other was a deliberate foul.

Walne's was for persistent offences, we were (quite rightly) on a team warning.

Westwood's forearm?? seriously the standard of refereeing already this year has me worried. Really poor.

What he said.



Silverwood gave us a team warning then in the next set Walne got penalised for a high shot. It didn’t warrant a sin binning on its own, but he was rightly binned for being so clumsy straight after being put on a team warning. I must admit Westwoods looked a bad one at the game, but Silverwood thought it hit his chest first, I can’t really comment on whether it did or didn’t, if it was direct contact then yes he should have been off. However the match review panel have had a look and deemed that a sin bin was the correct call so I’ve got no arguments whatsoever. I see the ‘all officials and RFL hate Salford’ brigade have been out in force on twitter again. It’s just embarrassing.

How The RFL saw it:

I also think a lot of people need to study the rules more. There was one point in the first half when Wire kicked dead for a 20 meter restart, one of our lads (can’t remember who) picked up the ball and passed it on to someone to take a quick 20m restart. The referee quite rightly pulled it back as you can only take a quick 20m restart if the same player that first gathers ball runs to the 20m line and takes the tap himself, if it is passed to someone else then a quick tap cannot be taken and you have to wait for the referee to give the mark. Everyone around me was going mental when Silverwood stopped us (quite rightly) from taking the quick restart, which made me realise how few people actually knew the ruling.

Just watched the highlights video and this is my assessment of the tries we conceded.



1. Morley and Hauraki too slow to close down Ratchford. Hauraki could have done more to block the pass to Myler.



2. Warrington player didn't seem to play the ball properly with his foot, allowing a very fast PTB.



3. Debatable if Atkins was offside, level at best. Johnson should have stayed more upright because the bounce did him as he scooped down.



4. No complaints although Westward did run into Hansen but I don't think he would have got across anyway, great pass from Monaghan.