Read it rlhererl....

Way too harsh on Silverwood in my humble opinion.... By and large I think he got the majority of the calls right. Regarding the penalty given against Webb, the transgression against him was obviously missed... What wasn't missed was Webb's very obvious retaliation, swinging his left arm about like crazy. Granted, there was easily enough roughness in the tackle for the penalty to have been given our way initially, but the TJ clearly didn't see it, but couldn't miss Webb's response. Fair? Obviously not, but how often is the retaliator punished? Webb made it very easy for a penalty to be given against him - had he not retaliated yes, we'd have missed out on a deserved penalty, but we'd still have been in possession a few yards out with a few tackles remaining, and probably wouldn't have conceded within a minute or two.

There were quite a few tough calls which I thought Silverwood got spot on, and for their disallowed try he was pointing at Higham and making it clear he was offside pretty much straight from the second the ball was kicked. It's easy to blame the ref, but watch the game back without the tinted spectacles and you'll probably realise you've been a tad harsh....

hugely biased tbh - I thought there were a number of poor refereeing decisions, but just as many against Warrington as against Leeds

id agree with that.

classic Webb. giving a penalty away in possession. westwood did give him some attention but I'm not sure it was even a penalty.

Leeds deserved the win last night, the steadier team over 80 minutes. But your match report, especially the puerile insults to Richard Silverwood, is an insult to both sides, and you should be ashamed of it. Do you seriously expect people to believe that this referee is Wire's '14th man'? If so, why did he choose not to ignore Mickey Higham ( deffo offside, but not interfering ) and award Wire a try for Myler? Would have been easy to do for Warrington's 14th man. And if you can't see what Webb did wrong in that tackle, then his brilliant-white cheesy grin must have blinded you.

Gary....tell them!

Perhaps Webb did retaliate, but if Westwood had dropped on my head with the elbow I think I'd have taken a swing at him too. Shouldn't it be the first offence that gets punished?

We were 12-0 ahead and in total command when Silverwood let Warrington back into the game thanks to two penalties, one harsh against Ablett and one absolute clanger missing the Westwood elbow.

In terms of the Higham offisde - it was the video referee that ruled it out, not Silverwood.

Webb did retaliate (not perhaps) and yes Westwood did drop a forearm into Webb's face however the ref didn't spot it and asked the TJ who struck first. So it was unfortunate that neither official saw the Westwood foul (although the VR should have intervened IMO as it was clear on the replay) but he did see Webb hitting out. Webb should know the risks of retaliation which in this case cost us 6 points.

I also think the ref got it right with Ablett who didn't get out of the way and appeared to deliberately obstruct with his legs. This laspe led to the next 6 points against us. IMO Ablett was lucky not to get another penalty against him later in the game for not clearing the ruck quick enough.

Higham was warned by the ref that he was offside and the VT confirmed it.

With regard to Westwood's try the ball was grounded before the line and he appeared to lose control before the line. Although forward momentum took the ball over the line it was not sliding but rolling under his body so I am not quite sure how that could be deemed being in control.

Westwood steamed into Webbs face with the forearm. Everyone seemed to see apart from those who count apparently.

Webb has always had 'the tude', it's part of his game. He got one, he tried to give one back. It's rugby, part and parcel. I'm glad he backed himself.

Similar to last season when Moore wanted to use Webbs head as a punch bag, Webb lashed back.

If that was you, would you react or take it on the chin?

The refs got the decision wrong. Anyroad from the Webb penalty, that was given away 90m from the try line, Leeds should have re-focused and not let the line break on our right hand side defence occur.

I think you'll find that Webb had provided Westwood with a bit of facial treatment earlier in the game and that the tackle you refer to was Ben's pay back.

True, Westwood went after Webb close to our line after Webb had him in a headlock. That dosen't make dropping the forearm into his head not a penalty. Webb was lucky to get away with some of his last line defence, he's round the head of the attacker directly infront of the ref almost every time.

Usually agree with the reports posted, but think this one is hughly biased against Mr Silverwood who I thought had a good game and even though it pains me to say so did the Sky Team
Watch the game again and you will see that Mr Silverwood wasnt the fourteenth man as the report suggests and wasnt biased toward either team , he did what all good referees should do and that is give it as you see it or if not sure check with the other officials ( Who by the way were both full time referees)

Watched the game again myself and I think you will find that Webb was penalised for striking Matt Blythe and not Westwood !!

It was hard for him to hit Westwood when he was snogging him to death.

Leeds won so Mr Silverwood had a good game - he even managed to spot a few knock-ons this week.