Which is one of the big problems with refereeing.



I think Senior was justified in his comments and is shocking that he's being investigated by the RFL now. It's about time refs were held accountable for their sub-standard performances. It ridiculous that poor refereeing can affect the outcome of a game yet nothing is done except the occasional slap on the wrist to appease the coaches, players and fans.









Which is why I will never criticise the use of the big screen. I'd rather they used it every time and got the right decision than allowed idiots like Smith have the final say.

Its like watching a tv game back on video when you get home from the game. At the match you're absolutely certain that the ref has just performed the most biased, one-sided refereeing job seen by man. Watching it back on video you find out that the highly trained, professional officials who are 100 times closer to incidents than yourself were 9 times out of 10 correct.



See we won the penalty count though - he couldn't have been so bad.

I didn't mean biased reffing, tbh I wasn't at the game. I was just referring to all-round poor performances.

You and I agreeing again







I now have a policy of not criticising referees at televised games. As you say, when you go back home and watch the incidents again you can almost guarantee that the refs decision was correct.

Cummings is a joke, he is weak and will back wrong decisions to the hilt, he was a poor referee himself. Since he has been in charge the standard of refereeing has gone down and down.

As much as I hate to say it Ganson is the best of a bad bunch, mind you with all the camera angles he has to look at he still gets video ref decisions wrong.

I wonder some times if all the referees are reading the same rule book, I think some of them are making up the rules as they go along.

Until Cummings is out of the way there will be no improvement in the standard of refs.

Watching Silverwood last night was hard to comprehend. Players were, at times, lying on for what seemed an eternity and then two or three plays later he was penalising players when they had hardly completed the tackle.



I thought in the second half Leeds seemed to take a more sportsmanlike approach and try and do the same as Melbourne had in the first half.



As well, did anyone hear what Cameron Smith said after the melee that followed the tackle by Adam Blair. Silverwood didn't seem to indicate that it was a penalty, it was only once it kicked off that he gave Leeds the penalty.

PY is right. They are right most of the time, almost all of the time. RFL say no case to answer on the spear which is what I said at the time. It was momentum which took him over. Louis Anderson's karate chop on the neck of somebody (Graeme Horne?) was nasty though.

and what about myler gettin punched in the face

Didn't see that.

Tried for a quick 20 metre tap and got a smack from Kevin Brown (i think).

yea sure it was brown

There were no punches thrown, handbags at 5 paces. Could argue that Brown could may be penalised for delaying a quick tap but I think Smith may have considered that the words "a quick 20m tap" and "Warrington have taken" have never appeared in the same sentence in the last 30 years when making the decision.