The Webmaster is spot on..............Even in the games where Child officiated when we won he was shocking, had it not been for the poor opposition the result may have been different. We're all waiting for Mr Cummins statement on the Blanche try and how he got it wrong....it was definitely a game breaker, that said we were poor.

Incidentally.............

Hicks...........................played 2 Won 2
Silverwood....................played 4 Won 3 Drawn 1
Alibert..........................played 4 Won 2 Lost 2
Child............................played 4 Won 2 Lost 2
Thaler..........................played 3 Won 1 Lost 2
Ganson.........................played 3 Won 1 Lost 2
Bentham.......................played 1 Lost 1

Lets hope its Hicks of Friday

I am in no way blaming the ref for the poor performance and defeat but a few things baffled me......

* being sat behind the posts i could see this better than i normally do at headingley......I dont think the Dragons players were stood square at the PTB for the entire 2nd half
* WHY??? after all 3 officials allowed play to go on did they decide to go back to the half way to sin bin Delaney for the late challenge just because a Dragons player kicked off starting a 24 man 'brawl'? i didnt think the man in the stand was allowed to be in full contact with the ref...
* Menzies 'spilt ball onto his head' is given as a knock on in every game ive seen it happen in in years.....Childs signalled nothing!!! not play on, not went backwards....NOTHING!


And that new stand is a death trap!!!!

what a whinger ! you lot were beaten fair & square end of.

Leeds were rubbish,badly coached off field and badly disciplined on it.Hendo gave you the run around and as for the so called defence allowing the OAP to run in a try was pathetic !

the brawl was spotted by the lino on the Guasch Tribune side who told Mr Child hence the correct decision for a ten minute sin-bin - nothing to do with a 'man in the crowd',grow up FFS !

the new stand is brilliant with some great views (not so good behind the floodlight pylon in the corner though).If you don't like heights then sit elsewhere.....

I cant remember reading any comment anywhere near the notion that we lost the game due to the ref

If the best 4 refs in the NRL had reffed that game we would still have got walloped, maybe by more points

But that doesn't change the fact that the ref was sheiiiite

Agreed, we would have lost whoever ref the game but child is very poor and had a poor game

Royston Vasey opens his mesage with "I am in no way blaming the ref..." so then he goes on to point out several points which should have been spotted by the ref thus contradicting himself big-time !
The ref was rubbish but rubbish for both teams ! he's been awful at all the home Catalan games i've seen so how is he allowed to continue at this level ?
He had no help from the TJs and the BJB step on the whitewash leading up to the Leeds try was scandalous !
I was seated directly behind the incident about thirty yards up and saw his foot clearly touch the whitewash,along wth a couple of thousand other speccies so how the f*** can a lino just one yard away NOT see it ? it was an absolute joke.

I appreciate that point entirely. I was specific in highlighting the markers not square penalty though as it's fairly obvious when you see it that the attacker is 'playing' for it. He doesn't have to run there but often does so to draw the penalty. Fair enough. I just don't understand what Buderus did wrong to get waved away in the example I gave.



I wasn't being entirely serious on that point (although it was a four ball Child accumulater) just frustrated by Leeds' total lack of discipline at times and the coach's apparent inability to instil some of it in to his charges. That said any team is gonna struggle at this level with a 12 - 4 against.

Indeed at the start of the season I pointed out that in the opening seven Leeds fixtures the team losing the penalty count went on to win those games so perhaps the stat wasn't so critical afterall.


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How do you know the touch judge didn't see his foot touching the sideline just the same as you and two thousand fellow fanatics did?

His foot touching the sideline wasn't a problem in itself as he was in the process of passing the ball. Yes ultimately on this occasion the touch judge made the wrong call but he was hampered by not sharing your apparent ability to freeze time.

You guessed and got it right, well done.

it wasn't a guess,it was basic officiating,as blatant as say,the Hardaker pass against Saints or other ridiculously obvious things that the linos have missed this season.Oddly enough it led to one of the best bits of the game for Leeds with the JJB try followed by the Buderus effort which tore the Catalans defence apart....

bloke was sin binned for late hit on the kicker! The fact he went in with his shoulder and did not look like he was actually trying to effect a correct tackle made it obvious!
had he been attempting to make a proper tackle and not just hit with the shoulder he might have got away with it
Its in the rules of the game!!! Hit the kicker late then it has to be a yellow card, the TJ is watching for the late hit and in the case in was correct and desreved to be sin binned
as for the foot on the line
if yopu look where the TJ was stood it looked like his view was blocked by the player trying to tackle him, not an excuse but hey
But FWIW it did not seem the best game for mr Childs,

As for the messing around at the play the ball and the pushing and shoving!!! does get silly but peacock is expert at it
Not standing square, well you can stand where the bloody hell you want as long as you dont get involved in the play or!!! directly effect the direction of play

thing thats really annoying me these days and its gettign worse and was pretty bad in this game is the scrum!!! second row not even bothering packign in anymore now never mind the loose fwd

The only games I can honestly say where the ref did not make major mistakes, were the two losses for us reffed by Thaler.

Therefore I would always hope for Thaler personally. I think this year he has been miles ahead of the others.

Hardaker's pass or Watkins flick-pass to Hardaker?

The Jones-Bishop incident was still a guess (however educated) on your part from where you were sat in the stand. It wasn't as clear-cut as you claim in real time and it only became truely evident that a mistake had been made with the use of freeze frame after the event. Jones-Bishop's boot hit the line a split-second before he released the ball, making the touch judge's play-on decision a poor but understandable mistake.

As I said though, well done for guessing right on this occasion. 2.45947265625:5