Not necessarily. He may favour us this time. My point is that he will have too big an influence on the result. What that result will be , we don't know yet.
Recent history suggest's that Childs favours Cas, so my money would be on a Cas win.

Favours us? You must be joking. He hasn't been biased in the games he's done for us, just trigger happy with the whistle. We're as annoyed he's reffing our game as a fan of any side would be.

Also, are you saying that with any other ref in charge, that you'd win?

I think the majority of Wakey fans (like the majority of other clubs fans) just believe that he is incompetent rather than biased.

Personally I don't believe that he is biased in favour of any team, the fact that Cas have won the games he has reffed them in is probably just coincidence.
I suspect that any as an earlier poster said any team that loses with this guy in the middle is likely to blame him because he is so prominent. In reality if you stood back and looked at each decison he made you would find fault with decisions for both sides not just your own.

His problem is that he does not have the ability to use a bit of common sense, like some of the more experienced refs do, and he applies the rules (as he understands them) without any personal experience of how the game is played.


I have no doubt I will walk away from the game on Friday night cursing him (win or lose) but I also feel that if he gets whistle happy around the play-the-ball then it helps rather than hinders us.

This is what worries me, because it stops us playing and drags us into a scrap. It's not what the game's about and on far too many occasions in the last couple of seasons have I seen us 'punished' for trying to play good, expansive rugby.

I must admit to being a trifle surprised as to Child's current style of reffing games.

I remember one of his 1st games at SL level involved Cas and I thought he did a good job not being overniggly, unlike a lot of his contemporaries of the time. It makes you wonder what has happened to make him change tack so radically!

That said I thought he did ok in the televised game at Salford last week.

Quote: Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo "7!!!! I doubt we won 7 games at all last season! Not last season, but doing a brief search I can find 6 over 2 seasons. He must Wakey SO much. Waky wins are absolutely NAILED ON when he's in town. www.slstats.org/2009/3/15/Wakefi ... agons.html www.slstats.org/2009/7/31/Salfor ... dcats.html www.slstats.org/2009/8/16/Wakefi ... aders.html www.slstats.org/2010/2/14/Wakefi ... hinos.html www.slstats.org/2010/3/12/Hull+K ... dcats.html www.slstats.org/2010/4/2/Wakefie ... igers.html

Quote: Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo "7!!!! I doubt we won 7 games at all last season! Not last season, but doing a brief search I can find 6 over 2 seasons. He must Wakey SO much. Waky wins are absolutely NAILED ON when he's in town. www.slstats.org/2009/3/15/Wakefi ... agons.html www.slstats.org/2009/7/31/Salfor ... dcats.html www.slstats.org/2009/8/16/Wakefi ... aders.html www.slstats.org/2010/2/14/Wakefi ... hinos.html www.slstats.org/2010/3/12/Hull+K ... dcats.html www.slstats.org/2010/4/2/Wakefie ... igers.html

Wow.

There's some ballcocks being spoken about on this thread.