While it's always good to see a bit of biff, the ref completely lost control and Salford bought into that and saw it as an opportunity to wind-up Ogre. He was daft enough to fall for it but I guess there's only so much a bloke like him can take.
It could have lost us the game though.

Got drawn in , but a salford player should have walked with him too.

Good to see him back and running well though

showed the whole 'on report' thing as the farce it is, if O'meley had gone off when put on report there wouldn't have been all the biff and the ref would have kept the little control he had.

I like a bit of biff but not when one player is being purposely wound up time and time again

I also agree a Salford player should have walked

Gentle said we wanted to take the two the first time, to calm things down and the ref refused, saying we'd taken too long.

What did he get put on report for?

The only thing I can think of is taking out man out off the ball.

How come when ogre was sin binned we then were awarded the penalty?

I thought it would then have to be a Salford pen??

I think the penalty was for holding down, and the sin bin for punching the guy who held him down.

Wondered this myself, he gave the penalty first, for holding down. But with Ogre coming up swinging I'd have thought he would have reversed it.
But nothing that ref did surprised me.

think we shud give mark a chance he is the aggresive player we need i for one wud give him one more year if can stay fit and there lass shuts up !!!!!!!! were on the up and its a case of fitting in or off u go

The only thing that surprised me the man should not be a ref .His handling of the game was between Crap and Sh-t

Good to see him back just bit silly throwing a punch but ref totally lost control of the game

hicks was shiite today. At one stage every one of their players was stood at least 2 metres offside at teh PTB and he did feck all. Nealry cost us the game when o'meley lost it

I can't see any reference to this "rule" in the RFL official laws of the game. I know you are not allowed to change your mind once you have indicated whether you are kicking or not, but there is no mention of a time limit for choosing.

I think that imbecile was making it up as he went along today. Hope his leg hurts, the prat

Well done Mark good to have you back in the side.

Karma can be a real bitch

Was that the one where Heremaia knocked on? That one was ridiculous, their entire line were so far offside that by the time the pass from dummy half was reaching Heremaia there were 4 or 5 Salford players already in our attacking line.

On thread, agree that O'Meley was a bit silly and could have let the team down by costing us the extra man for a while (incidentally, am I the only one who clocked it as 11 minutes?). What really annoys me though is that there was handbags at 3 rucks in quick succession with our players not at all happy, so obviously something unsavoury was going but the officials took no notice. That will lead to a fight breaking out nearly every time.

I noticed it too. Went off at just over 13min mark and came back on with 2mins to go.

Glad I'm not the only one. 13:2? when he went off, 2:28 when he came back. So we've got a sport where some officials can't count to 6 and stop, and others can't tell 10 minutes on a clock. Brilliant.

was 12:40 ish when i looked at clock as was not sure if he'd red or yellowed him as missed the card but said to my lads wouldnt make much diff as would only be 2 mins left once back on

Great to have him back, he was silly to hit out but there had been several digs at him in the previous 5 mins and the ref did nothing. When he hit out I think it was just pure frustration.

It was exactly 12:37 when he went off (clock was stopped at the time), and he came on slightly late at 2:30

certainly been missed! not eye catching big shots but opposition look like they've ran into a wall,strong running to say been out a while and a few offloads,and it could of been costly but enjoyed the punch up! we have been 'soft' and glad to see some true aggression in as much as he was saying im not taking it anymore as it was 3rd incident in a matter of mins and ref wasnt gonna do much!

Thought he went 'okay.' He does look like he's put weight on and it was absolutely stupid to hit out like that, but he took the ball up plenty and he brought presence up-front.

Should never have gone on report. Shoulder charge on a player who he had every right to expect to receive a pass at exactly the right moment. Sin bin might cost him a ban because he threw a punch but, frankly, it was the third consecutive offence by Salford for the same infringement: that's what should have caused the ref (if I can call him that) to get the yellow card out.