Some games this year.. That was one of them today.



The ruck speed was painful

Didn't help with Silverdud letting players constantly stand in front of him, at EVERY play the ball.



I was sick to the back teeth of him, with his whistle in his gob, every set of six.



I know players are responsible for their actions, but the officials need to nip constant infringements in the bud...

Oh, and fair play to that touch-judge coming on the field, and actually having an input into the game. Normally, all they're good for, is when a ball's gone into touch, or adjudicating on a goal kick.

The thing that got me about Silverwood today was occasions when (both teams, to be fair) players were clearly offside, as in outrageously so, the relevant set of fans went ape and all he did was make more and make elaborate gestures to the defence to get back on side - you're not there to coach, you're there to apply the rules FFS.

Players not being onside and hull kr not being penalised for lying on certainly frustrated us and led to us not being at our best. But we won by 32 points and scored some great tries.



One season of success and it's like 37 years never happened

Richard Silverwood's policing of the ruck has always been poor and I cannot see why he is classed as a top referee. He seems to like the sort of game where the ptb is slow which will always disadvantage any team who want to play at pace.

This seems to have been the case in quite a few games this year. I hope it's not something that the refs have been told to allow.

Talking about SL in general, not our performances.

We didn't help ourselves at times today but generally the game was very slow and frustrating today maybe. In my opinion anyway.

The problem with teams looking offside is because refs are not consistent with how they line teams up. Some will stand the 10m back from the play the ball others will stand 12m back and walk up as the ball is being played, which makes it frustrating for fans as they think teams are offside because they are in front of the ref, who is actually 12m back.

Who is in charge of policing the offside anyway? Liner or ref?



More the ruck speed than offsides today but both mixed together and we didn't get through many sets without el whistleo blowing up

Slowest game I have witnessed. I have seen faster, clearer rucks at 2nd division, regional RU.



I am getting the feeling Silverwood revels in the pantomine villain role.

Ref

I am becoming a miserable old man, but I thought the game today was dreadful and Warrington played the sort of rugby that makes me want to go back to five drives and a kick. We have no self-awareness, respect for possession (or the opposition) and play the game in exactly the opposite manner to which you'd coach kids to play. Playing with ludicrous offloads in your own 20 and on the second tackle, as if the clock is permanently stuck on 79:59 is not my idea of rugby.



After being on the back foot for three sets on your own line, you need to just respect possession and to complete a set, but those basics appear not to enter our head. Our completion rate is criminal and I don't need to wait for the OPTA stats to know that our error rate is the highest in Super League. It's utterly brainless and we won't get away with it against anyone remotely good.



Apart from that, I thought we were okay and will p1ss the league unbeaten.



It makes me sick.