Kirkpatrick was about as good as it got. And the RFL F***ed that up too

When KK started he was as reviled as James Child is now. I remember him being chased off the pitch at Wakefield.
I don't think the RFL cocked up in his case either, when they went full time with refs he was offered a position but due to his good fulltime job - as a banker(?) - he turned them down.

LUFC Fan not Rhinos.

You are right. Back in the day he worked for a Yorkshire based bank selling asset finance deals.

Lindop was before my time so can't judge him but i do work with his nephew, if he was as incompetent as him then he must've been shocking.

I was shared a changing room with lindop. we got changed and went to ref our respective games. mine went to extra time so he'd changed and gone when I returned.
but his shoes were left. wether he went home barefoot or in his football boots I never found out. very odd

He was.

For my money, Robin Whitfield was in an incompetent and annoying league of his own though.

Always thought Stan Wall was one of the best

He might have got chased out of town. Were you in Dodge City?

As I remember he was one of the best refs around but left because the super league refs had to be full-time. Id call that level of inflexibility a cock up. No reason for him to stay part time then there'd be a good measurement of how much 'better' the full-time refs had become

close. Wetherby

Fred Lindop was a special kind of useless though. I used to absolutely hate him

One thing you couldn't level at Lindop IMO is that unlike some of his contemporaries - Holdsworth, Whitfield, Billy Thompson - he didn't think the show was all about him.

Never forgiven Robin Whitfield for that night at Wigan he stuffed Leeds out of a chance of winning the title. Every time we created an overlap near the Wigan line, he blew up and penalised them for offside to stop the game.