Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Wed Sep 21, 2022 9:20 pm  

What a hollow victory for St helens should they win, overshadowed with this corruption.

Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Wed Sep 21, 2022 9:24 pm  

son of headingley wrote:

I'm done. Out. Finished. I have a GF ticket. If anyone wants it, they can have it. Done with this so-called "sport". As corrupt & rigged as the financial system.

You'd feel bad if Leeds won though and you weren't there to cheer them on. Don't do it, it just doubles down on Saints benefitting from this!

Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Wed Sep 21, 2022 9:33 pm  

Seems fans of other teams are up in arms about this too, not just leeds. Reading many St's fans who can't believe it either.

The RFL are really just blissfully ignorant about the implications of all this.

Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Wed Sep 21, 2022 9:35 pm  

How do the referee’s and video referee’s keep getting these decisions so wrong? Yellow card’s against Saints players is obviously a way for the game officials to try to even games up and stop them spoiling the TV spectacle!

Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Wed Sep 21, 2022 9:44 pm  

Seth wrote:

The RFL are really just blissfully ignorant about the implications of all this.

This is the end game. They - and the ever- lazy RL media - don't seem to grasp that this is suddenly a full blown crisis. Possibly the biggest i've seen in my 35 years watching.

A completely new judiciary system has been created for the benefit of one club in Grand Final week. And that system has overturned what pretty much everyone agreed was a reasonable sanction for pretty ugly foul play.

Rugby League is in turmoil tonight and the RFL and our sport's media don't seem to realise quite how bad it is. It's like there's been a coup and nobody knows how to stop it.

Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Wed Sep 21, 2022 9:51 pm  

Yep! I don't like seeing players miss the big games but you can't change the rules on the eve of the final to suit one club especially when you see some of the bans we've kopped this season! Let's get over there and give it a go! It's a free hit as far as I'm concerned. Most other teams will be backing us on the strength of this ridiculous decision.

Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Wed Sep 21, 2022 9:51 pm  

The Ghost of '99 wrote:

This is the end game. They - and the ever- lazy RL media - don't seem to grasp that this is suddenly a full blown crisis. Possibly the biggest i've seen in my 35 years watching.

A completely new judiciary system has been created for the benefit of one club in Grand Final week. And that system has overturned what pretty much everyone agreed was a reasonable sanction for pretty ugly foul play.

Rugby League is in turmoil tonight and the RFL and our sport's media don't seem to realise quite how bad it is. It's like there's been a coup and nobody knows how to stop it.

I’m just glad there is no knee jerk overreaction to this

Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:01 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

I’m just glad there is no knee jerk overreaction to this

Do you actually think it's an overreaction?
Do you actually think what Knowles did wasn't worthy of a ban?
Do you actually think that Saints should have been allowed to appeal the appeal? And before you say Leeds have done it, we haven't, we've appealed the frivolous judgements.

I think the general consensus was that you got remarkably lucky having only one ban given how much foul play, how many headshots and late hits went in against Salford, but this just extracts the urine.

I just hope he tries it again on Saturday and sees what happens.

Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:02 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

I’m just glad there is no knee jerk overreaction to this

If you can't see why suddenly changing the judicial process just to benefit one club in Grand Final week isn't devastating for the sport's integrity then your blind partisanship has got the better of you.

That this specially constituted new process delivered a ruling entirely inconsistent with previous disciplinary decisions this year is only the secondary scandal.

The sport is on fire tonight, I'm torn between agreeing with the sentiment and being terrified that this scandal is so huge it could do genuine lasting damage. If all trust in the integrity of the governing body is lost then there's not much we have to cling to as watchers of sport.

Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:19 pm  

Right up there with Wigan's rule twisting over the salary cap all those years ago.
Rugby league is a s*it sport at times.