The same poster compared Thornley's performance to Meninga after their Leeds victory

In the posters defence (can't remember who it was) he actually said Blair was the best back rower on the field until he had to switch to centre. Blair was causing quite a few problems before he had to switch to be fair

Anyway you look at it it was an embarrassing statement. Ellis wasn't only the best 2nd rower he was the best player on the park. You went 10-0 up and looked reasonable comfortable. Ellis went off and we scored 16 and you looked rattled and lost a bit of discipline. Ellis back on and the whole team seemed to calm down and play.

Massive influence and almost goes unnoticed as its what he does, remember Mick Vella having a similar influence with us back in the day.

Ellis always makes the big drive to get us on the front foot again, it's easy as an onlooker to forget how much harder defending is when you're constantly tracking back instead of getting up in their faces

Certainly doesn't go unnoticed with me, he's absolutely fantastic and we are without doubt a different team when he's off the pitch. It happens week after week, look at how many tries we concede when he has his spell on the sidelines, it isn't a coincidence. Radford generally rests him 10 mins either side of half time and for me I count down the minutes for his return.

Is it just me but think Bowden has been quiet the last couple of games. like to see Thompson back in the squad maybe instead of washbrooke

Although trying to work out exactly what the logic behind the disciplinary procedures and panel is rather like trying to knit fog... they seem to be undervaluing and underplaying the spear tackle.

On the pitch you now get done for a spear tackle if the legs come over the horizontal, which has resulted in some harsh penalties. But once it gets to the disciplinary procedure we're seeing some horrible ones, like Lunt's get one match or nothing at all. Dave Taylor has been dropping people on their head for weeks and only copped one match.

Similarly, since that Fanny Maguire nonsense with Sneyd last season, any sort of contact around the knees and what have you is massively over punished, resulting in that ridiculous charge for Watts after Wigan. You are meant to tackle low down at the end of the day, but because there's been a couple of high profile injuries they're now punishing perfectly good tackles.

Of course, all of this goes out of the window when somebody gets injured. If Watts had broken his neck on Sunday, which he could easily have done having been deliberately turned upside down and driven into the turf well after the ball had gone, then no doubt Lunt would have got six to eight games, but because he was lucky and didn't get hurt he only gets one. Which is a farce in itself - look at Ellis last season, really bad injury with nobody near him. Shouldn't be in consideration when looking at these things.

Been saying it all year, the injury caused should have no bearing on the ban. we had it earlier in the year when Boudebza got pinged for crocking Shenton, the week later Danny Brough did a worse one but fortunately there was no injury caused therefore sending off sufficient. Looking at Lunts it was no better than Ah Vans who got 5(??) because it caused a shoulder injury.

The rules need to be set and applied, Taylor would have been banned most of the season for dropping people on the head multiple times, yet he gets away with it, all this does is make him do it again as has been seen. His technique is terrible but he (or his opponents) have been lucky so far so he doesn't get a ban. The disciplinary panel is becoming a raffle more and more.

We got the rub of the green this week from the panel and I'm grateful for that but it doesn't make it right.

Lunt free to play against Catalans after taking early guilty plea. Allgood one match ban.