He's a big Huddersfield Town fan and has had digs at Leeds Utd in the past so probably hates everything Leeds. He's fast becoming the new Russell Smith for us.

Bit of an aside but I remember the days when refs could not officiate matches involving their home town club. I knew John Holdsworth's nephew who told me that he (JH) hated Leeds with a passion but never reffed them because of the home town rule.
Next thing you know he suddenly became Mr Holdsworth of "Kippax" and made us suffer accordingly.

Refs do best they can. They are humans and the speed of the games make it difficult.

It's very rare a referee impacts the result of a game in my opinion.

People over react about refs. If the ref makes a mistake defend the following set it's that simple.

At Saints on Fri I had a lad behind me who was giving himself a heart attack that we was getting robbed by the ref ffs. Some people are morons.

spot on. bias talk is rubbish.
he is simply crap no matter who he refs

The thread is called inconsistencies but I totally disagree, it should be consistency.

We are crap, Kendall is crap. Together our games are crap every time.

Yep totally agree.

I agree that refs generally are focused upon too much, they need to get rid of the 'ref commentary' on sky for a start. That said, Kendall is consistently exceptionally crap regardless of who's playing and that's more an issue with any entertainment left in the game when he's done with it rather than the outcome of games.

This, this and thrice this.

Captain Calamity Cummings was brought in to explain the rules to the layman but the amount of fog platting he will go through to defend an obvious and blatant mistake is horrendous, hes also about as interesting as a wet fart.

Sky needs to get with the times and get a bit more "pizzazz" , they are deffo moving in the correct direction but getting rid of Cummings is an easy fix to instantly improve things, there are far too many people vying for attention on the mike.

As for blaming refs? they will inevitably go with the team who has momentum, we very rarely are in the ascendancy or have consistent momentum so we are on the wrong end of the stick, this is down to us. I have noticed that a certain team who usually have tremendous form for blaming refs are suddenly quiet as mice now they are currently purring and destroying teams. They just cant see the correlation that if you are in the ascendancy in a game, thus have the momentum you will inevitably get the calls, bend your back, reap the rewards.

Could be down to the fact he was a south Leeds boy . Possibly belle isle school, plus belle isle, hunslet and Middleton areas weren’t exactly lovers of Leeds . The allegiance would be to hunslet.

I don't think refs are biased against particular teams from the get go, but it can sometimes appear that way if they have an issue with a particular facet of the game e.g. laying on at the PTB. Some teams do it more than others and will get pinged more. A couple of NRL clubs who have had issues with individual refs have gone public and announcing that they are looking to meet with a particular ref to discuss 'interpretations'. What its probably more about is putting a bit of public pressure on a ref they perceive to be inherently more likely to penalise them without overtly accusing them of bias. Does it work? Dunno.

You are kidding right?

Refs are doing a professional job they’re paid for. Their focus would primarily be on getting decisions right on the field. When you do that job every week the club allegiance thing becomes irrelevant. Incompetence is another thing.

I am not so sure about that. I think a few comments of late from that idiot Silverwood highlight a few things thought at the time. Silverwood at one point was one of our best, he was also good with us. Then something started to change, and players certainly had a thing against him, and he came up with terrible decisions against us for quite a while.

The comments seen last few weeks seem to explain a lot of that. And those errors were not honest mistakes.

I'm not saying a ref can't take against a club if there's a fall out or bad blood. If players are constantly questioning his integrity or whatever and the club is whining in public (which used to happen quite a bit in the old days), some refs will take the petulant route and be determined to show who is in authority. I'm not sure that's the same thing as wearing a particular club's pants under your shorts though.

IIRC wasnt there an issue with Senior and Silverwood? Did Senior mention it in his book?