He really tried his best to screw your guys tonight what a disgrace.

TBH, that was the worst display of ref-ing I've seen in a long time.

I don't even think you could call him inconsistent because that suggests that at some points there's some consistency.

I'd say he was pretty fair. Numerous appalling decisions given and missed for both teams.

Credit to both teams for not losing their rag with the fool.

Agree.. Ruined the game! A "child" would do a better job!

Some of his decisions are just baffling.

He simply isn't a SL quality referee. Is there anyone better ready to step up though? Surprised he was given such a crucial match though, thankfully none of his decisions altered the outcome too drastically.

He's just out of his depth at SL level.

But who else is there to replace him with? That's the problem with the refereeing set up - there isn't a big enough 'pool' to be able to drop inconsistent or under performing referees

Terrible decision to appoint full-time referees, without beingin a position to pay them the seriously-decent salary the best of them deserve for that thankless job.

Pay mediocre salaries for a short career, you get mediocre monkeys. Or a Child.

The standard of officiating has overall probably reached an all time low. Bar one or two whoever gets appointed to your game makes you cringe because you know whats coming.

Just totally lost the plot at times tonight, how both teams
put up with his decisions is a credit to them. Felt sure Heath
would get sin binned for back chat. got to be the worst ref, ever!
By the way what a dream team of officials, Childs, T V Tony,Roby.
& Robert Hicks on video.

Agreed, he has had a very poor game but what on earth are those touch judges up to! Can they actually see past the touchline.

As soon as I saw Child was reffing I knew there would be the usual pathetic onslaught of criticism, so I watched his performance very carefully. I did miss bits of the second half in a constant battle for the remote control to watch the Olympics, so apologies if every supposed bad decision was during that time. From the game I saw there was only one decision that wasn't 50/50 that he missed. He didn't penalise Lulia for his vicious attack to to Taylor's head in the process of him scoring his try. If Taylor had gone down there rather than scoring then Lulia would have been off. Credit to Taylor for making nothing of it. Apart from that I didn't see anything, that in the modern game when literally hundreds of passes are line balls, couldn't have gone either way, consequently alienating half the crowd (& the hundreds of thousands of KR fans stuck on the motorways). As it was he let plenty go but pulled the obvious ones or those when he obviously got a call from his assistants. The current trend to attack refs after virtually every performance is the worst part of games, with posters trying to outdo each other with ludicrous hyperbole. WTF would want to take up the occupation when you are subject moronic abuse every week, on the pitch & on here? I would love it, love it, if any of the ignorant numpties screaming for justice on here were given just 10 minutes to ref a pro game, I would give a fortune to watch it.

Aye....But he was rubbish last night, even worse than Ganson last week!

its a sad state of affairs....... in the old days you looked to see who was playing for your team, then who was playing for the opposition before a game. now you just look to see who the ref is to see if you have a chance of winning