Couple of points so far from this weekend.
IMO it was a fair try to the Knights today when they went down the blind side from a scrum and scored an 80m try. Where is the ref supposed to go? Even McFadden acknowledged that point.
Just on the 40/20 kick from Friday night and the decision to hold up the play and not allow Sandow's try. If you watch the replay, Sandow didn't even take a quick tap. When he got the ball he simply ran to the spot and then continued running, didn't even pause and the ball went nowhere near his feet. So regardless of the BS surrounding the rule, if the Eels had scored it would have been from a quick tap where no tap was taken. And as for Brad Arthur saying his player passed it to Sandow from the touch line, the same replay shows him 2m infield, so its a moot point.
Besides that, Parramatta are a one trick pony. If Hayne has a quiet game then they are hopeless, even with a try scoring Semi.
Ricky Stuart has now found another excuse. The Raiders have no rep players. What next?
Souffs are playing very good football right now, of that I won't argue. But the reality is that they are being allowed to get away with murder by the pinkos which is greatly helping their cause.
Peter Sterling said before Friday nights game when talking about the chicken wing that players need to be on notice not to do it. I notice though that with the Souffs love fest at Nein in full swing, not one mention was made that it is the Vermin who are the ones doing the chicken wings, just that every player in the NRL should be on notice. Obviously the Nein team is under instructions not to criticise the Vermin.
One last point, if its true that a ground official at ANZ verbally abused the ball boy over the 40/20 incident and blamed the kid for Parramatta losing the game (and apparently there were witnesses from both the Scumdogs and Eels who heard him), he should seriously be looking for another job. That's disgraceful.
