You mean just like when Leeds who went on to be champs 4 weeks after getting a towling by a 12 man Hudds! Doesn't always work out like that.



So you are just spouting crap.

Ian Kirke has FIVE winners rings.



What was your point again?

I had tried to gloss over that in my head





Thanks for reminding me....

It was relatively close up until the last 20 minutes, its s by the way and you're talking out of yours...



It would have been a better match had the referee not got carried away red carding Poore. Poore & Bailey should have gone to the sin bin for 10 with them on the field it spiced things up. I agree with Poore's swinging arm attempt at a tackle was over the top (& red card worthy if he'd connected with Singleton's head) and the referee still had that in the back of his mind for the sending off when Bailey initiated a confrontation & grabbed Poore (look at the replay if there is one).



Admittedly though some of the Wakefield experienced players didn't really turn up today and the game faded away in the second half for entertainment value from both teams. Leeds deserved the win and were the better team on the day though despite the crap referee.

I think the Warning Poore got prior to the fisticuffs went against him but he was looking for it early on aswell its ok hitting hard and getting stuck in but it was obvious to anyone there what his intentions were and for an experienced FR it was pretty naive imo and once again Bails walks away smiling and his team get the win.

Of course it was only a friendly and that should have swayed the call to just a yellow but i think if he carries on in that manner Poore could find himself costing Wakey some SL wins.

I think both sides can take away positives and plenty to build on and as for the Ref he did also take into account his TJ's opinions before the red so its harsh to just blame him.

He has consistantly been picked by powell tony smith, bluey mcclennan and now mcdermott, he must have something about him it just so happens that it only took justin poore 12 mins to find out who Ryan bailey is and that #hedoeswhathewants

Poore did some legal big hits in the first 20 minutes and ran hard if you'd been watching. He was unprofessional and reacted to Bailey's grappling. You don't get State of Origin & 200 first grade NRL appearances for being sub standard. We'll see over the season how he goes when he gets in better shape, you can't judge in 20 mins except to say that he needs to control his aggression or he'll be no good to us banned.

Given the absence of reliable evidence to support the glorification and cult-hero worship of the ordinary, the discredited [i"how many rings?"[/i stick was first introduced by G1 for beating away opponents critique of any Leeds player he personally regarded as precious. It didn't work particularly well back in the day and it definitely doesn't work well at all now - especially when Kirke has collected FIVE of them

One of the touch judges looked about 17! When you spend over £20 to see a match then the least they can do is put a super league standard referee in charge.



Its a friendly the ref is in charge and should have had that in the back of his mind but I think the sheer noise generated with the free for all led to him thinking he needed to make an example to calm things down but it affected the quality of the game with the only recognised front rower for Wakefield sent off. Leeds had an abundance of front rowers in Bailey, Kirke, Aitchurch & Singleton and had more go-forward with Macguire running the game & outplaying Tim Smith.

You ever see some of Aussie players Leeds signed around the early 00's?!

leeds has such an abundance that bailey played 70 mins, singleton got a good 50/60 mins, kirke did 20/30 mins & achurch played 2nd row.

end of the day super league is going to be never the nrl what is wrong with biff a sin bin sufficient. Also someone who has played state of origin is going to take nothing from a thug who has done nothing out standing i his career. End of the day leeds fans dislike it when they see the new nrl signing get smashed by cockyne an ours banging out your cult hero Man up a bit of biff never hurt anyone bar....... leeds/ also kylie did smash fox in the face for no reason in the playoffs an had a limited punishment, now if any leeds fan wants to have a look at that at least them two squared up to each other fox tried to play the ball an was smashed for no reason, end of the day whats the difference between the 2 incidence bar the blood/ one was not provoked by a very average failure who things he can handle a proper rl player