That's a red surely,

Nope, appears not !

The guy jumped to hit him high. Can't see how all you could give was a penalty. Yellow at very least.

Credit penny for jumping straight up. Think the stg player thought he was walking.

It wasn't a clothesline was a grab. Might not be a popular opinion and no doubt it was a penalty but personally believe I bit of a meal was made of it. Something I think has been creeping in for some years. Clearly ended up high but if you were clotheslined to the point where your feet are taken off the ground no way would you be getting up. For me it was a high grab, penny jumped making it look worse than it was

Thaler sucking up to the Aussies quite nicely

Very reckless attempt at a tackle regardless of where the initial contact occurred, not something that should go unpunished.

glad he didn't show a card, its been a better game than was expecting and it doesn't need something marginal like that spoiling it.Only a couple of penalties so far its been a clean fast flowing match, good stuff

Yellow for me, very similar to the Westwood tackle in round 1. Get the impression the ref has been told to keep out of it though.

As an aside, the commentary team have been x1000 better!

Can't really compare it to tackles/cards so far this year as they won't be playing under SL rules will they? Surely be international rules?

Turns out they are playing SL rules

As explained by sky



Someone read my post!

And another.

Shocking

The new rule appears to be: 'high tackles can be punished by just about anything the referee feels like on the night'

In a period when RU is under scrutiny regarding concussive injuries we're turning a blind eye to a serious potential problem.

And to top it of the player who should be in the bin sets a try up

And the final coup de grace by the ref...

Can't blame the ref.Game was there for the winning but Wire played dumb in second period making school boy errors and bad options when in decent position while St George just ground them down by doing the basics well.

Good game though.

The halves were the difference in that game, Widdop and Marshall's decision making and execution was excellent, O'Brian and Myler in particular was gash. I've rated that kid since he was at Salford but he's regressed massively since going to Warrington IMO.

As for the ref, he reffed the game well, but got all the key decisions wrong. It's something I've noticed when English refs referee a game involving an Aussie side. They seem to 5hit themselves. Ganson being the obvious exception.

Were they not playing third man flop rule, I only managed to watch the last 20 odd minutes but there were at least half a dozen flops (by SGI) that could/should have being penalized or at least mentioned to the players about by the ref to not do..certainly slowed Warrington's PTB without doubt.

Spot on regarding the half backs, myler and O'Brien were anonymous that was the difference between the teams

As for the high tackles, I might be in the minority but I didn't think they were that bad mistimed and reckless yes but not malicious or likely to cause serious injury. Yellow card would have been right. But after the first game with ah van the precedent has been done away with it appears

i agree regards the high tackles. Maybe the first should have been a card but i don't think either were intentional, just mistimed as they were wrong footed.

i agree with TS over the tackles. how is Ah Vans a red and they are pen sufficient?

That is my problem with it, personally I thought yellow card too but you can't go giving red cards one week then absolutely nothing for the same thing the next week. It frustrates the players, it frustrates the fans.