Sal Paradise wrote:What is sad is that Sezer will miss the game through foul play from an opponent. Whether Knowles plays or not wont impact the game as much as Sezer not playing.

If Leeds win it will be very sweet indeed - hopefully what has happened this week will galvanise the team into a huge performance where they "make the whole greater than the sum of its parts"

Go Rhinos

FearTheVee wrote:You do realise that all you need to do is replace "nuked the process" with "had a valid appeal upheld" to make yourself sound a bit daft.

Clearwing wrote:Heard similar from some Wigan fans after they bought their way out of that relegation scrap when they blew inadequate cap rules out of the water. No consideration of the light it cast their club in and none for how it portrayed the game as a whole. Anyway, congrats on the appeal win.

Egg Chasing wrote:Surprised it took this long to bring Wigan up

The Ghost of '99 wrote:It's a inexcusable result of a disastrously run system that has seen players incorrectly banned or otherwise inconsistently treated throughout the year.

Many Leeds fans were right on the edge of giving up following the three games Martin was banned for. It's close to a miracle that they didn't end Leeds' season.

This joke of a result, the overturning of what was for once a clear and justifiable ban for ugly foul play, will have a material effect on the sport's biggest event and who will be champions. And you pretend to innocently wonder why people have had enough?

There's talk that St Helens aren't to blame. I disagree, nobody forced them to chuck a hand grenade into the disciplinary system. They decided to do it despite agreeing it was foul play. They lost the appeal but saw a way to worm out of a ban on a technicality. The second appeal didn't find Knowles innocent, it agreed that the wording of the first appeal wasn't quite correct in its summation.

Incompetence at the RFL yes, but it was desperately cynical by St Helens to try and exploit it so that no ban would remain, effectively blowing up the system to get Knowles off.

It's a move which will both forever hang over their Grand Final win but more importantly has soured the views of thousands of people of our sport just when it needed them to be engaged ahead of the World Cup. Enjoy your ill gotten gains FTV, I hope you think it's worth it.

Swoggy Loiner wrote:What you really mean is, Sezer misses a game through foul play, yet St Helens have a man available that committed foul play. Stinks doesn’t it.

Anyway, it’s water under the bridge now. Let’s go out there Saturday, hope Tetevano or Bentley dislocate Lomax’s shoulder and put him out of the game after 5 minutes. Take the subsequent yellow card and get a result.

The Reaper wrote:Rubbish. Not one person that isn’t a Leeds fan will remember this at all in 6 months. Happens every time

The Reaper wrote:To dislocate a shoulder you’d likely have to take it outside the natural range of movement. Could be in trouble