If he is too much of a nutter to get in the Wigan side then I suggest he needs urgent medical attention.

Sounds like that Barlow has more than a few screws lose. Been red carded after getting involved in a brawl WHEN HE WAS ON THE BENCH!

I can see him getting a lengthy ban,running 20 yds from the bench to join in with a few haymakers.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?

I would say almost certainly so.

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.

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.

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.....

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

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

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...

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.