I would like to know why Thaler gave Bradford four warnings before giving a yellow card, yet sin-binned Emmitt without a single warning to Cas.

I am not one of these people who has a beef with referee's, but yesterday Thaler didn't look across the defensive line at all in the first half and Bradford were constantly off side. infact I remember one occasion where a Bradford player was stood directly in front of Thaler. With regards to laying on, Cas were laying on for 5-6 seconds (too long) and slightly longer for some dominant tackles, whereas Bradford were laying on for 7-8 seconds and over ten seconds for some dominant tackles. I honestly believe that someone should have been sin-binned after the second warning on about the 30 minute mark.

I don't like stop start rugby with a high penalty count, but I also dislike constant spoiling.

Fair play to Bradford, they got away with it and found a way to win the game and lets be honest thats what you have to do in crappy conditions.

Whilst he did make some mistakes, there can be no argument that we got plenty of penalties in response to the Bulls tactics. It's true there was a lot went unpunished but just imagine how much more boring the game would've been if he'd acted on that as well.

For me there should've been more focus on cleaning up the play-the-ball which was slowed to a crawl whenever we were in possession, and certainly action should've been taken sooner. The explanation for the Emmitt sinbinning is at least an explanation, however doesn't seem to fit the circumstances at the time. One could argue that Bradford prevented any number of try-scoring opportunities by being offside in their own ten metre area throughout the game.

Refereeing performances in Super League often lack consistency however we got our penalties on Sunday yet did nothing with the advantage.

But failure should have used his yellow card for their persistant offsides instead of saving it to level it out. I think there is consistancy, especially with failure and bentham, they shouldnt be allowed near a game of rugby

I sometimes think I watch a different game.
I agree there are some inconsitencies - but mostly inconsistency is in the eye of the beholder. I think you have to have an ounce of sense to appreciate this as well.

I think it would be fairer to say that our mistakes cost us the game and our own failure to complete high and stop Bradford believing in themselves as I said before the game on that thread. So we can heap it on Ben Thaler, who incidentally I am no great fan of in a professional sense, but to do so doesn't give Bradford enough credit and allows the players too much excuse.

If we had taken care of the things we can influence, then we would have won.

We were crap, that much possesion near to their line and we couldnt finish, dont blame the ref, or the bulls, they played a very simple game to which we allowed them to dominate, Their no7 was outstanding in those conditions

I don't think anyone is blaming Thaler in the entirety for our loss. That would be flipping ridiculous. However, my point was merely reflective of that was that it was an unjustifiable, poor excuse based on what he said.