The Rourke disallowed try seemed to be a wake up call for Hull. Had that been given I think we'd have gone on to win easily as we were making light work of them in the first quarter. When it turned into an arm wrestle we just lost our composure.

Can some one tell me why the Lino try was disallowed . Lino had a lot to do when he took the ball . Know we had to make 4 changes to the team ,but think made a mistake not playing a winger ,and putting our best centre there .Thought Russell did ok ,and think Smith is getting better each game he plays .You got to have a few 50/50 calls and we did not seam to get any. A game we could have won ,but overhall think we are going in the right direction to be a very good S L team

McMeeken (I think) was deemed to have caused an obstruction. Personally, I felt the Hull player made a right meal of it. Out of all of the disallowed tries that was the one I thought could have been given.

Are you talking about Johnstone here? If you are, I've heard a couple of people say the same thing and I don't quite understand it atm. Can't be because he dropped a huge spiral today can it? Funnily enough, Rapana did the same thing a bit later with a similar kick that moved in the air.

Firstly what can't be missed is, that he was still nursing his return from that broken leg through a lot of Preseason so there's that, so he's probably gently easing himself into the season. Saying that, he's still probably the top meter maker in the side and even though we're playing fairly well I don't think we've been using Tom's best asset yet, giving him the ball in space to open his legs. 


That's probably been down to a couple of things, we've been in mostly very close games, except the Saints one, so we've had to keep it tight down the middle and not be that expansive until we've earned it. Secondly, he's been used as a bit of a battering ram out of our 20-meter area but that's just the name of the game atm, which is where he seems to have made all those meters he's made so far, but he's finished the chances he's had, like the 2 at Huddersfield which was good to see and he should have had another tonight when he took the ball above Briscoe, everyone looked behind the kicker from the big screen imo.


I know Powell has said a few times that we're still discovering what sort of side we are and it's probably just as simple as that and it's just part of the journey for this young side, especially before we start saying we've bought a busted flush in Johnstone. 

Yeah, it was called for obstruction but as you say that rule is getting milked a bit by players who realise they've been caught out of position and instead of pushing off the runner and sliding across when they realise they've been caught out, it's easier to milk the penalty and go for the obstruction, it also got sent up as a no try which seems to be the be all and end all. Tbh I didn't see that one as good as the Johnstone one that got chalked off and for me, everyone looked onside at the kick from the angles they showed on the big screen, I haven't a clue if we didn't see an angle but it looked a good try to me. For the first one that got chalked off you could see that a couple of players were a bit in front of Russell when he kicked.