Re: Bulls V Swinton : Sun May 22, 2016 6:35 pm  

Bartholemew Smythe wrote:

How does having a player sent off from the bench benefit the opposition exactly,apart from reducing an option of a replacement?

I may be wrong, but wouldn't Swinton have had to remove a player from the field and put him on the bench?

Re: Bulls V Swinton : Sun May 22, 2016 6:41 pm  

HamsterChops wrote:

I may be wrong, but wouldn't Swinton have had to remove a player from the field and put him on the bench?

I would say almost certainly so.

Re: Bulls V Swinton : Sun May 22, 2016 7:17 pm  

HamsterChops wrote:

I may be wrong, but wouldn't Swinton have had to remove a player from the field and put him on the bench?

That's exactly what I said, but it didn't happen, after Barlow was sent off he came and sat behind us in the Stand with his Family, his Dad asked him why he was sent off?He replied,I only hit their winger twice ,but Barlow wasn't even on the pitch when it started.he was in the dug out.

Re: Bulls V Swinton : Sun May 22, 2016 9:01 pm  

HamsterChops wrote:

I may be wrong, but wouldn't Swinton have had to remove a player from the field and put him on the bench?

You`d have thought so, although I`m not up to scratch with the RFL rules.From the incident Swinton received 2 reds and a SB whilst we had a red and a SB.Both teams played with 11 players for 10 mins until both SB players returned.

[Bulliac]

Re: Bulls V Swinton : Mon May 23, 2016 8:18 am  

I seem to remember a Bull's player being sent of whilst on the bench. It was quite a few years ago and, to be honest, I've forgotten who it was. The circumstances were a little different though, in that a scrap developed on the pitch near the touchline and the fight then spilled over into the 'tech area', so he'd no distance to run and get involved.....

Re: Bulls V Swinton : Mon May 23, 2016 8:49 am  

In Barlows defence he only had 15m to go as it was close to the dug outs, awful ref lost it completely and should have stopped the incident by dealing with one a couple of minutes earlier when the Swinton player took a few swings with the play dead after a knock on, nothing done then same player does same again to same player and again nothing done so all hell breaks out. Some very poor refs at these games

Re: Bulls V Swinton : Mon May 23, 2016 9:06 am  

Bulliac wrote:

I seem to remember a Bull's player being sent of whilst on the bench. It was quite a few years ago and, to be honest, I've forgotten who it was. The circumstances were a little different though, in that a scrap developed on the pitch near the touchline and the fight then spilled over into the 'tech area', so he'd no distance to run and get involved.....

Paul Medley against New Zealand? Some point in the early / mid nineties.

Re: Bulls V Swinton : Mon May 23, 2016 9:49 am  

maurice wrote:

In Barlows defence he only had 15m to go as it was close to the dug outs, awful ref lost it completely and should have stopped the incident by dealing with one a couple of minutes earlier when the Swinton player took a few swings with the play dead after a knock on, nothing done then same player does same again to same player and again nothing done so all hell breaks out. Some very poor refs at these games

Standard of refereeing is getting worse and worse. Since when is Chris Campbell SL standard?!

I was at Dews - Fev yesterday and Roberts had with out a doubt one of the worst performances i've seen from a match official in nye-on 20 years of watching rugby league. No control what so ever, and his grasp on the technical decisions seemed to be very poor.

The bloke we had at Sheff wasnt great either...

Re: Bulls V Swinton : Mon May 23, 2016 7:00 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

I seem to remember a Bull's player being sent of whilst on the bench. It was quite a few years ago and, to be honest, I've forgotten who it was. The circumstances were a little different though, in that a scrap developed on the pitch near the touchline and the fight then spilled over into the 'tech area', so he'd no distance to run and get involved.....

I'm sure I remember David Hill exiting the bench to participate in an impromptu martial arts event in a game against, inevitably, Leigh. Alex Murphy had blatantly punched Brian Butler in the kisser precipitating the brawl. Murphy walked away and sat on the ball as the rest of both squads attempted to resolve the dispute.

Murphy was probably the best player I ever saw, and definitely the most complete ar****le.

[Bulliac]

Re: Bulls V Swinton : Tue May 24, 2016 10:51 am  

Stan Doffarf wrote:

I'm sure I remember David Hill exiting the bench to participate in an impromptu martial arts event in a game against, inevitably, Leigh. Alex Murphy had blatantly punched Brian Butler in the kisser precipitating the brawl. Murphy walked away and sat on the ball as the rest of both squads attempted to resolve the dispute.

Murphy was probably the best player I ever saw, and definitely the most complete ar****le.

Not sure if you're correct with it being Murphy in that particular game, though what you describe is certainly the way Murphy worked - start a fight then disappear..

Definitely agree with your summing up! To be honest, his attitude to the game makes his appearance in the Hall of Fame an embarrassment as far as I'm concerned.