I personally thought KR were milking the penalties at every occasion. Every tackle theywere wriggling around claiming they were being held down! Its just like diving in football!

Kevin Sinfield had absolutely nothing to be proud of last night. Do you think he set a good example to his players and to the younger Rhinos fans? definitely not in my opinion. Seems quite ironic that when you went in front he had nothing to complain about.



Rugby League was never intended to be played in this manner. Ive been binned for looking at a ref funny! i know im ugly but come on, Sinfield was wagging his finger in Benthems face. NO PLAYER has the right to do that. not even the captian.



Overall, in my opinion, a very average performance by an average player.

Because average players captain thier sides to 3 Super league titles and 2 world club championships!! Also one of the all time point scorers at leeds!! Well i think we'll just keep a hold of our average captain!

Did anyone hear his convo with Bentham while Bailey was down? He explained himself and said that he wasnt having a go in the first half, its just how he expresses himself. Bentham replied with... "I know Kev but you have to understand that they (the supporters) cant hear what you are saying and can only see you pointing and having a go"



Then SKY turned the sound off

Mate, hes 11 posts old and is obviously trying to get a bite. Look for the signs.

I edited out all the non-factual bits of your post.

Ouch!

I though that at the time but 1 of them was Diskin.

haha! 11 posts old on a fans forum so I obviously know nothing about the game of Rugby league. In my opinion, Kevin Sinfield is an average player at best. If that gets your back up then i'm terribly sorry.

It might have been. Due to the remote location of Hull KR's ground I wasn't able to have my usual amount of booze before and during the game. Without nature's overcoat my eyes might have frozen slightly out of focus.

The finger wagging was well out of order, other than that a good captain's knock with controlling the refereeing of the game.

Agreed.

It must be frustrating as a player when calls go against you with very little coming your way and as someone else has already said, as a fan you would be a little worried if your players didn't show that. I believe the penalty count at one point was 9-2 to KR which is massive in tight games, in bad conditions. It's all about field position. I feel Bentham is easily swayed by home support, for example, the first HKR pen (which led to their try) was Diskin 'holding down'. Never was that holding down. He completes the tackle perfectly but the crowd noise increases and the whistle is blown. Now I'm pretty sure the failure at the world cup was partly due to the control the Aussies and Kiwis had at the ruck and play the ball and that tackle of Diskin was just the way they did it. Yet we want quicker and quicker play the balls.

The finger wagging was pointing at Hull KR wasn't it, not Bentham?

But how about the penalty count?

Yes he was pointing to other incidents over the field that hadn't been punished by bentham but don't let that get in the way of those chelping!!

Regardless of who it was aimed at finger wagging, shoulder shrugging and outstretching arms when with or walking away from chatting with the official are disrespectful and a dangerous road to travel.



Had Ganson been stood there, it would have been yellow minimum and red to follow if it carried on.



As an example of this when Ganson binned Calderwood in the FE game last season he said, 'don't clap or the colour changes' and when binning Senior in the same incident 'don't say anything, you've been very lucky.'



Last night Sinfield weighed up his opponent but he'll need to be careful if he gets frustrated in the future.

You are entitled to your opinion, and as you said "I obviously know nothing about the game of Rugby League" what is also obvious is that you could have not have seen Sinfield play very much. Had you seen him show his many skills over the years you would understand why he is so highly rated by most fans, players and coaches



As captain he is entitled to ask for clarification of the refs decisions. As the video shows Bentham was taking Leeds back more than 10m and then penalising them while overlooking Hull KR offsides. In many cases Leeds were guilty but Mr Bentham had a one eyed approach. eg: He penalised Leeds for not having both feet touching the try line which you see every week from every team. Why did he only ping Leeds for this? Sinfield was polite to the ref and stuck up for his team and fans at what appeared to be bias. Peacock looked livid and had he been captain could have got a yellow card.

With the Leeds blinkers off I think Sinny could have, and on most days would have, handled himself better with the ref. He looked a little visibly too affected by some decisions which is a little out of character for his level head. The finger wagging was not acceptable, regardless of frustration levels or decision quality. This is rugby not football.



IMO Disko was lucky not have been given 10. On another night or with another ref I think he might have.



Happy to put it down to a bad day at the office for some but if it continues BC will need to enforce some discipline and stomp it out.

Sinfield has a terrible attitude to refs IMO, no respect whatsoever and IMO he came across as a spoilt little b***h who can't keep his gum shield in for more then a minute last night.

i thought the throwing of hands in the air was classed as dummy spitting???

i think the ref didnt have it in him to sin bin Diskin with him being one of your top players so he picked on McShane instead.

oh dear...