I thought Hicks was good tonight. He let the game flow. Lets hope Ronnie "look at me" laughton was watching.
Far better game to watch this week.

Extract from lawsEnforce Laws
2. The Referees shall enforce the Laws of the Game and may impose penalties for any deliberate breach of the Laws. He shall be the sole judge on matters of fact except those relating to touch and touch in-goal (see para. 11 below).

[iConsult Touch Judge 2. Before giving a decision, it is permissible for the Referee to consult either or both Touch Judges.[/i

IMO, Nat maybe thinking that Rockin' Ronnie couldn't give a decision on his own.

You obviously didn't see Chapman getting sent off then? Other refs would have tinned out on that one, good on Robot on that one.

Personally I don't think he had that bad a game yesterday. He did miss stuff, granted, but EVERY ref misses things. We have had him far too often to know what he gives penalties for cheaply and we still got ourselves into those positions, showed how poor we were IMO. We are too quick to blame the ref for our own ineptitude.

the penalty count was 11-5 in favour of halifax yesterday

The penatly count was so high because of the laurel and hardy performace from the March Brothers, both were playing dirty tactics, it was clear to see they still have a rugby brain, however they were intetent on playing dirty yesterday! and guess what it paid off!