I thought the standard of refereeing today was very poor indeed. Numerous inconsistent decisions. Sometimes things were getting penalised and sometimes not...the lads mustn't have known where they where!!

More importantly. I've not see a ref's decisions swayed by the crowd so much in a long time.

All in all. Very poor.

Penalty Count in the first half - Wakefield 10-2 Bradford

Penalty Count in the second half - Wakefield 3-8 Bradford

Total penalty count Wakefield 13-10 Bradford

If a referee refs to a consistent standard through a whole match it should not matter what the eventual penalty count is. for them & for us.
In fair refereeing it then demonstrates a preponderance of deliberate of accidental breach of the rules by both sides.
So its unreasonable for anyone to complain that a certain side was penalised -say 10:2 - without looking at the validity of each decision, and of course, looking at penalty decisions that might have been made consistent with others actually made.
The Refs should not get to the stage where they have penalised a team 4 times then think they cant do another one, or at least penalise the opposition at least once in compensation.
But they do.

I would be interested to know how many tries come in the next set of 6 after each penalty.

Saturday gone Bradford scored three tries on the back of receiving penalties while Wakefield scored just the one try (Southern's).

While you are doing the commentary can you keep a tally for the rest of the season, there's a good lad.