Coming from a fan of a team that contains spit the dummy out Graham it's

I'm afraid not. In such a mêlée on the line Wire defence is bound to stand firm in case of a 'play-on' call. The tackle looked complete but on the spot who knows? Hodgson and others at that point are entitled to block Smith who clearly moved forward off the mark ( he was over the try line! ) and was shoving Hodgson away when the ball came loose in the struggle. No way was that a simple 'strip'.

I have seen Leeds do the same thing this year as well. I think Cullen mentioned it on boots n all as well on the same show. Not something I have seen us do regulary but it generally seems to be mcshane at marker from memory when we do it

Some would call it 'luck' or getting robbed. I would call it the fact you had coaches like Cullen and Lowes and then got Tony Smith. Thats when your luck turned imo.

The key thing to note from the referee standpoint last night, was the penalty he gave against JJB which made it 20-6 to Warrington, we never recovered psychologically from that imo.

I thought he murdered you last night. Was looking forward to a good game last night and was spoiled by a terrible official.

There were Warrington hand(s) tugging at the ball and, as Smith pulled it back, the ball spun out from his grasp.
Not a "simple strip", true ... but a strip nonetheless.

That's the way I saw it on the replay.

As with many others on the boards today, I'm not blaming Childs for Leeds losing but I do think he made a bad performance look even worse.
It's a long time since I've been so frustrated with a ref's decisions that he did make and others that he didn't.

Grapes,sour. He gave your try which looked like a knock on,or have you forgotten that? Child didn't score 42 points mate,your lot were outclassed and you have to accept that!

Surely is should of been a penalty too Wire, because Smith moved off the mark as someone has said he ended up over the try line.

And the try Leeds scored was a knock on

But you've missed out the fact that Smith by that time had taken 2 steps forward and was well off the mark. Had he managed to play the ball he was well over the Wire tryline.

You have exaggerated massively here, Smith was in the process of taking one step forward (and it was a step that was part of him getting up) whilst Hodgson had his hands all over the ball. Smith could easily have played the ball where his standing foot was (behind the line) rather than where his striding foot was(in front of the line). However it should never, and could never have got that far. As soon as Hodgson kept his hands on the ball after the call of held its a penalty for interference, for him to then compound that offence by stripping the ball after Smith had stood up was a penalty for interference or for stripping the ball, take your pick.

That decision, and the decision to punish JJB having been hit with a high tackle and with Morley's arm around his neck was frankly an embarrassing decision. It was very very poor refereering.

The question I would ask is what James Child has done to deserve such a game. What did Stuart Cummins see recently that meant he though Child had earned the opportunity refereeing a game at the top of SL when he has struggled so embarrassingly previously. Sticking with Child when he is so clearly out of his depth isnt good for the game, and isnt good for Child.