Excellent performance, I think everyone to a man has been name checked above and rightly so. Vaughan is superb, and has been since he got here, but that was another gear. 

On the contact with the head stuff, I’m genuinely confused. I don’t think any of them should have seen cards, nobody wants to see cards in big games. But, Lewis Murphy and Saints have every right to put the tele in the bath after watching that. We’ve just completely changed the policing of that rule without actually telling anyone. Earlier in the year Trout and Tai would have both seen a card. I’m not saying that they deserved cards, but how can you reasonably explain accidentally making contact with the head when catching a ball 5 feet in the air, and getting binned, and someone smashing an almost static player and making forceful contact and nothing given. 


The ref broadly did well, but missed a clanger with the tackle from Dufty holding up Armstrong (After the superb Thewlis tackle). Dufty comes from an offside position and makes the tackle. Leigh will be furious with that. But, on balance, the second Sneyd chargedown Liu was offside and it was given a turnover. At 12-4 up and completely steamrolling them at that’s state, we could have shut the game down if that gets blown as a penalty. But, that’s why we have challenges and it’s both teams fault for their misuse of them. 


Thewlis and Tai have proved me wrong from the start of this season, I thought both were underperforming but their effort yesterday was exceptional. 

For those who watched both semi-finals on TV I'm sure that, like me, you were less than impressed by the way that the producer kept cutting away to shots of the coaches whilst the game was in play. Could I encourage people to submit a complaint to the BBC here.  If enough people do it then, just maybe, they'll find a producer from somewhere who's actually been to a game before.

For those who watched both semi-finals on TV I'm sure that, like me, you were less than impressed by the way that the producer kept cutting away to shots of the coaches whilst the game was in play. Could I encourage people to submit a complaint to the BBC here.  If enough people do it then, just maybe, they'll find a producer from somewhere who's actually been to a game before.

I'd have my doubts that we will.It really is pretty impossible to produce performances like that on a consistent basis particularly if you pick up injuries. We are pretty resilient so you never know. 

1 It was a question based on observation and the comments of others, it wasn't a trawl through stats to prove a point one way or the other
2 I used Currie's good form as a potential benefit of having Yates in the team not as a slight on him shirking any tackling duties if this is what you are incorrectly implying.
3 Long may Currie continue "doing it wrong"     
      

Bit touchy. I agreed with your underlying point that Yates is a tackling machine and you need those in the team to free up the fancy Dans. I was just surprised you named Currie as he is also a tackling machine.

To be fair to the BBC, they acted with some dignity at the end of the game. If they'd've gone to Chappers,  RH-P, Williams and  Wilkin, it would've been undignified 

Nobody wants to see a grown man cry.
Wilkin's porn star moustache would've been flooded with his salty tears.