Gansons awful.

It would be a shame if he takes this 'harsh' approach to the final and hands out cards for silly offences, which will affect the result.

I for 1 would prefer to see a 13 a side final for 80 minutes.

I find it hard to consider your opinion on officiating at all considering the b*llocks you talk on here every week about referees. You are probably the most biased person I have ever seen post on forums, despite some pretty hefty competition in previous years. You judge referees purely on how many decisions they give to Bradford's opposition, regardless of whether they are correct or not.

If people deserve to be sent off, then they should be sent off. Simple as. All this crap about "letting the game flow" and "being invisible" is just that, crap. It is up to the players to play within the rules. If they break them, they should be punished. Ganson is the only referee that actually punishes players instead of bottling it just so he doesn't get shouted at.

99% of the time people slag off a referee for "giving everything against them", it's because of their own team's lack of discipline.

A referee is essentially there to enforce the rules of the game. If the players don't break them, he won't penalise them. Simple.

Someone forgot to tell Mr Ganson that at MM last year then...

That is the ideal for refereeing. So whats Ganson to do with it?
I'm not being petty but his demonstrable history is one of instances of incompetance and bloody minded intransigence.

Not a huge fan of Mr Ganson, but on the main topic I have to say that I really wish we [iwere[/i in the Final. On current form I'd back us to beat either Hudds or Wire

But then we haven't had the form to get to the Final in the first place

I'd much rather have a ref like Ganson who has the bottle to send people off when they deserve it than Russell Smith who got every big game going which he marred by a phobic disregard for the red card and near addiction to the yellow.

Most referees now seem to have that same phobia of the yellow too.