Lachlan's regret Your correspondent is old enough to have been present for both the most famous ill-advised field goal attempts in premiership history – Terry Lamb kicking one when Canterbury were down by two at Belmore Sports Ground against Newcastle in 1992 and Greg Inglis missing one while trailing St George Illawarra by the same margin at the SCG in 2016. I remember after the respective games Lamb laughed along with everyone while Inglis clearly hated being asked more than one question about it. So how was Lachlan Coote on Saturday night after he did the same thing (missing) against Penrith? "He was pretty disappointed in himself – he though it was 16-all," Cowboys football manager Peter Parr tells Set of Six. "He knows an attacking kick of any other sort would have been a better option." Parr reports Coote wasn't too upset to talk about it – but also unable to see the funny side considering Penrith scored the winning try almost immediately. Somewhere in the middle of "Bah' and 'GI', then.

Cut the coaches Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy argued against the planned cap on football department spending in his weekend newspaper column, suggesting that other sports would benefit if assistant coaches started getting laid off. Perhaps that's the case for fitness and sports science people but you would think specialist coaches have the least transferable jobs in all of rugby league. And frankly, Set Of Six believes the less coaching, the better our product would be. If more players played what was in front of them and fewer stuck to the structure imposed by coaches, we'd get more entertainment. Up with the football department cap - it must happen! Another opportunity wasted

It was heartening to see the WARL extend an olive branch in the Sunday press to players and fans who are likely to be left without a team by the demise of rugby union's Western Force. But, frankly, I want to hear it from head office and I want more than a possible reserve grade NSW Cup team. As one reader put it "The NRL has been offered a get out of jail free card – and they won't use it". The fraudulent use of the 'N' is a major flaw for the competition and here it is being given a free pass by a major competitor and it is basically doing nothing. Every backer of the Force should have an email from rugby league in their inbox on Monday morning. A media release offering to help those players and fans deserted by rugby union – with no binding undertaking – should have been the bare minimum reaction. Refs done good

This column probably doesn't comment enough about bread-and-butter on-field issues. We thought the penalty try awarded to Suiliasi Vunivalu on Saturday night during the win over Sydney Roosters was completely justified. There should be a harsh punishment for a cynical foul on a player not in possession of the ball, a couple of metres from the line. Now, according the current interpretations, it may not have been the correct call. The only good reason for not allowing referees to employ the balance of probability in determining a penalty try is to spare referees from using their independent opinion in making a call, thereby minimising criticism. Give them that power back and forget criticism – let them make the call. Moses parts the sea of cliches