I agree he is the worst ref in a long time and weve been unlucky enough to get him 6 times 4 at home. I'm not a ref basher , I ignore them most of the time and watch the game but this guy gives strange decisions I just don't even attempt to understand.

Let me make it clear though HE IS NOT WHY WE ARE NEAR THE BOTTOM , I just thought from those stats I put up he certainly doesn't help

Kendall is very poor but not the worst both child's and if you can remember Kirkpatrick were much worse as they thought the cameras were there to watch them. Childs is utterly useless

Kirkpatrick was a brilliant ref. His first year might have been poor, but after that he was the best ref around.

Interesting. I did a number of matches as a touch judge with Kirkpatrick and he was an absolute mare with us and the players absolutely despised him due to his arrogance. His maxim was “my pitch, my game, my moment”
He was part of the reason I gave up.
Best ref I ran touch for was Bill Harragan closely followed by Steve Presley and Nick Oddy neither of whom were popular with HQ because they refused to “do as they were told”

Also interesting that you make this point and have been in the position. When I moved house six years back, the survey was done by a super league touch judge. He was absolutely adamant that everyone hated working with Ganson, for the exact reasons you just gave for Kirkpatrick. Don’t know if you came across him the same? But it is dissapointing that Ganson is now in charge of officials.

I never did a match with Ganson as he usually got top matches and I was not good enough or was not prepared to do the bummlicking to get to the top but he was quite arrogant in training. Cummings was another that was preferred to better refs.
For my sins I mainly ran lines for Silverwood when he was on the way up. I know this will be unpopular but I rated silverwood but he liked the amber stuff too much