Smiths reaction is consistent with his gripes about the ruck all season. It wasn't changed then and it certainly wont change now.

As Tad has correctly said previously, there's the way Rohan wants / expects the game to play, banging up the side of how it is ACTUALLY being played.

There is a sanction - fatigue - better than penalty fest.

Completely disagree. Teams are routinely giving away 1st raclke penalties to stop momentum and avoid getting fatigued. If somethings wrong, it's wrong. Penalise it! Players, and more importantly coaches, will soon catch on.

Theres no six again within the 40m line, its a penalty instead - stops teams deliberately doing it in defence.

I maybe wrong but I thought this thread was about Marcus Griffiths and predominantly about the homophobic abuse on social media?

Any abuse of any official, player or even fans is unacceptable but it’s the way of the World today where cowards hide behind keyboards and have a pop because of their own ineptitudes and inability to string a sentence together in a F2F situation.

As a former RL official I watch the referees performance as well as the game itself and there is no denying that Griffiths is a poor referee and probably the weakest of the current bunch. His communication is abysmal, his signals confusing, his consistency is non existent and he fails to understand “you earn respect, you don’t demand it”.

His personal life is his own business but when being highly paid to do a professional job in front of a public audience you need to have a MVP - Griffiths has yet to rise up to the standard of most amateur referees and as such will attract criticism from valid quarters and the trolls will jump on that to make their cowards points.

I don't know why but the title of this thread sounds like a BBC drama series.