Once again , the RFL totally cock it up - this game did nothing for the spectators watching - it was dire . and even worse, put the players through the mill - absolute disgrace -
can the RFL get anything right - they should all be sacked.

perhaps they have been rested and rotated more?
both have had lots of injuries so it could be a lot of players haven't played many games

If you rotate your squad effectively, and please bear in mind we have played Doncaster and Barrow before this spell, then you can expect a quality different to Friday. That is the point been made. Nobody has said the same players playing all these games should still produce quality.

Cas get their results out of competition for places. Our first seventeen picks it's self and continually plays without rest without an injury stopping that.

26 penalties in the game which wasn't a rough house.
Bloody ridiculous.
Child needs to put his whistle away.
He gave a penalty on the first tackle of the game for goodness sake. Set the tone for the entire game.
He needs to watch how Thaler & even Bentham use a bit of nous to allow the game to flow.
I'm sure nearly every decision he gives is technically correct but he has no feel for the game nor any rapport with the players.
So everyone ends up being frustrated that then boils over into a niggly stop/start affair.

spot on. I reffed pro football. we are coached abut managing games. its when to give fouls. obviously bad or clear fouls have to be penalised.
bentham was brilliant when he did leeds v cas at magic. could have penalised more but as they were minor he let it go. the game had a great flow.
refs will make errors, sometimes big ones. that's life, so do players.


the younger refs know the laws but they don't know the game, and they don't know how to manage games. they have no rapport with players. you need dialogue.
I worry about the advice/coaching they are being given

Yes I was thinking Fridays game wasn't ill disciplined to the level Child blew for. It never should've been 26 penalties, put Thaler or Bentham in charge of the same game and they'd probably reached only half of that 26 figure.