Latest scores Week 20 January 25th

Plymouth 41 Rosslyn Park 22 FT

DMP 27-10 Rotherham

DMP 34-17 Rotherham BP 

DMP 41-22 Rotherham

FT

Edited by Longtime - 25 Jan 2020 at 16:46

Good win for DMP despite probably the worst refereeing display of the season, utterly out of his depth!!!

Toulouse wrote: Good win for DMP despite probably the worst refereeing display of the season, utterly out of his depth!!!

 He didn't have much help from his assistants, so they all missed numerous high tackles, a couple of knock ons, a tackle in the air, and generally had no consistency regarding what was offside and what wasn't. It must have been frustrating for the players.

Full of praise for the boys today. They showed great spirit.

Full Bodied Red wrote: Agree entirely. Much improvement by Hull Ionians. Couldn't  understand the enormous penalty count and 3 yellows against them. Seemed as if different sanctions applied at the breakdown, offsides and high tackles.

Well played Hull Ionians today, we certainly didn't take you lightly and the team were told, this game is as important as last weeks against Richmond ....

However, as an ex referee who was wired up to the referee and heard everything he said, my observations on the 3 x YC given against yourselves ....

1) Attacking driving maul by RAMS, the referee calls out your 7 and tells him get out of there, presumably in offside, the maul goes to ground and the referee gives a PT, having identified the offending player, by law, he has to YC him ...

2) RAMS attacking just outside the HI 22 metre line, RAMS throw a pass to a winger in space, the ball is knocked on by HI, again, in law, no real option for the referee, YC given

3) RAMS make a big line break, HI player gets back and catches the RAMS player around the head with force, again, straight forward YC .... this was in contrast to the high tackle against the RAMS scrum half a couple of minutes previously, where there was no line break, the tackle started at chest height and rose upwards, with no force .... penalty only

We wish you all the best in your last 10 games.

Clive Norling wrote: Full Bodied Red wrote: Agree entirely. Much improvement by Hull Ionians. Couldn't  understand the enormous penalty count and 3 yellows against them. Seemed as if different sanctions applied at the breakdown, offsides and high tackles.  Well played Hull Ionians today, we certainly didn't take you lightly and the team were told, this game is as important as last weeks against Richmond .... However, as an ex referee who was wired up to the referee and heard everything he said, my observations on the 3 x YC given against yourselves .... 1) Attacking driving maul by RAMS, the referee calls out your 7 and tells him get out of there, presumably in offside, the maul goes to ground and the referee gives a PT, having identified the offending player, by law, he has to YC him ... 2) RAMS attacking just outside the HI 22 metre line, RAMS throw a pass to a winger in space, the ball is knocked on by HI, again, in law, no real option for the referee, YC given 3) RAMS make a big line break, HI player gets back and catches the RAMS player around the head with force, again, straight forward YC .... this was in contrast to the high tackle against the RAMS scrum half a couple of minutes previously, where there was no line break, the tackle started at chest height and rose upwards, with no force .... penalty only We wish you all the best in your last 10 games.

Edited by Sid James - 25 Jan 2020 at 22:55