To save my time I'm going to try and ignore those posters too stupid to understand rugby league.

The Ablett incident deserved a sin-binning as it was a professional foul on the back of Sheriffe making a monkey out of several Leeds defenders. Sin binnings usual occur on the back of repeated infringements (not the case here) or a professional foul where the defence is in disarray. I'd have been absolutely amazed if what Ablett did hadn't resulted in a 10 minute rest.

Just listen to it on TV, the ref called held about four times before the ball was ripped. Whether he was actually held or not becomes irrelevant as Newton would happily let it be ripped after hearing the call, ie he wouldn't have let it get stolen otherwise.

Worst refereeing ever ?

Clearly this person has never seen ...

Stan Wall - Yes that wizend old man that carries the kit for the Scousers used to be a full paid up Leeds hater

Robin Whitfield - A man who used to revel in winding up the South Stand ... Anyone remember his contrived 46-all draw ?

Fred Lindop - Wakefield's answer to Darth Vader. The Lord Of The Sith's career came on leaps & bounds after taking Fred's self-improvement course.

John Holdsworth - Coming from Kippax (with a Leeds post code) meant that John avoided his 'home town team' (Cas). A referee who couldn't fail to hide his delight after effecitvely ending a player's career, nothing to worry about then, because the player concerned was in blue & amber.

Don't worry, there are plenty of contenders for that title !

regarding the decision to disallow mcguires try at the end, people on here saying it went forward off of jjbs hand, the video ref cant disallow a try for a forward pass although he clearly did, you could argue it was a knock on but with the ball not touching the ground for me it shouldnt of been disallowed, when does a pass not become a pass? the rules on this need clearing up

It was Karma. Lets face it..we had it coming after the robbery at MM.

Its better now rather than later......

Ian Smith was near perfect last night. He refered anything suspect to the video ref and was proven correct. Best ref performance i've seen for years and should be applauded. The only bad decision he made was allowing the Leeds try that was forward. If you read the rules you'll see that every decision made was the correct one that you're calling wrong.

i think you'll find the video ref can call a knock on

Ian Smith is poor............although in fairness it is not his refereeing that made us shocking!! Better team won........they did not make the errors we did.

thats true mate. bradford were still poor with ball in hand. we didnt get the job done

Had a Bradford player done what JJB did I think the consensus on here would have been that it was a dead set, 100% guaranteed, copper bottomed knock on. Just because a Leeds player touched it shouldn't alter that judgement. JJB should have allowed it to pass by him to Sinfield and the try would have stood. He didn't so it was correctly ruled out for a knock on.




Do you have a specific example where this particular rule hasn't been enforced either normally or recently. I'd like to see it so I can build up a sense of injustice.

I agree they played a lot of one up and kept it reasonably tight. We did not create enough to trouble them.

It appears that your head is as empty as the Giants trophy cabinet, now run along.