A tough one to take but a hell of a lot to like. It feels like we can compete with the top teams again. If we can keep the effort and intensity at this level in the coming weeks we should be in the mix at the back end of the season. Our pack has given as good as it has got against 3 of the top sides these last few weeks. 
We scored from a forward pass but other than that a lot of the close calls seemed to go warringtons way. Even allowing for that, Newman shooting out of the line gave wire the opportunity to win it at the end.

From what I can tell from the disciplinary notes Palaasia isn't even mentioned. 
Dufty and Vaughan are the only players named from the Wire game. Not sure if that means sin binning was sufficient or that he has been found blameless?

Means there was absolutely nothing with it. As everyone with eyes already knew 

Sin bin sufficient is what they are saying.
Clearly gives them a cop out to say he did something wrong but with limited action against him.

Yep, if he'd actually made contact to the head with shoulder he'd have been cited. 

The initial reaction of the Sky commentators was that it was a good legal hit.


On the slow motion replay Palasia's head is impacted first. I don't know if this is significant but it suggests it's a little more complicated than Palasia being a straightforward aggressor. 


In the aftermath of the tackle I thought the referee might have awarded us something because of Fitzgibbon looking for 'afters'.


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What's frustrating for me is how well we played, to come up with nothing... Oh well, if they keep it up we should be able to see more wins in due course. You never know with Leeds though.