Hicks is good simply because he lets the game flow actually understands that the TVs camera and fans most importantly are there to watch the players and not the referee.
Childs however thinks it's all about him and that is another thing that him and Stuart Cummings have in common. In fact they are extremely similar in many many respects.
What is amusing though this season is child's has the highest decision overturn rate of any SL referee because he is guessing at decisions. Likewise Cummings makes a total buffoon of himself guessing and lecturing others and the evidence was last night with robinsons no try knock on.
It was obviously a knock on with no downward pressure but Cummings thought it was fine. When he was in charge of referees it was a nightmare and the famous graham Bradley incident should have prevented him from ever entering the field of play ever again.

This i have issues with over the years since the VR has been used at t.v games various Refs have asked them to clarify situations whether the ball was dead or not indeed in some games VR's have intervened during stoppages and tipped the on field Ref up of foul play.
The whole system imo is mis-used and like i tweeted to Silverwood on the night Tad asked he was lying it was only a couple of weeks prior during a Cas game iirc he'd given a KO against Cas and whilst the scrum was being set he asked the VR to double check when he'd watched the big screen replay & spotted he'd got it wrong.

for me the main thing is getting the decision right. if that means a whisper in the refs ears so be it

I see where you're coming from but the whole VR thing's riddled with inconsistency. Take the Kopczak penalty on Friday as an example; had Hardaker not been injured then play would have continued. But thanks to the stoppage the incident was highlighted. Happens time and again with obstruction; if there's a score then the most innocuous offences are picked up whereas at any other time only the more blatant offences are penalised. And if the VR is to have a whisper in the on-field ref's ear, why not do it to correct the myriad knock on at the ptb/interference decisions that are incorrectly called on a regular basis? It does happen but only on a seemingly-random basis.

I've never liked the VR concept but I like its application less and less. If we need to have it (and I understand fully the argument about TV replays highlighting refereeing mistakes) then for god's sake take it back to where it was used to adjudicate on try/no try decisions only.

But Hardaker was injured BECAUSE of the Kopczak offence. It wasn't some unlucky coincidence.

No. It was a lucky one.