Q - What was the difference between the Bulls today and the ref?

A - After a disgraceful 1st half performance the Bulls slighlty improved after the break

This is clearly a new directive for weaning in Refs. It is obviously hard to ref a full match so he was only reffing one team and then taking a break whilst Saints were defending

Not at all, the Saints players tactic that people were complaining about was the constant and obvious slowing down of the PTB which was never penalised.

I agree we slowed the PTB, but when you hold the man above the ground the tackle is not completed until held is shouted. This takes longer when you hold the man from putting his ball carrying arm to the ground.

If you look at the tackles where Bradford got pinged, these were mainly from the likes of Gardner. Now Gardner has one ability which he excels at, which is when tackled he hits the deck pretty quick. This does not allow the wrestle as rather than struggling in the tackle he goes down body first and is immediately getting up to play the ball.

We had a similar experience in the opening game against Huddersfield, where Huddersfield dominated the tackle and made it very difficult for us to get out of our 30m.

We were going in with men to put the player down, rather than control the tackle and hold them up, but it seams we have learned from that opening game.

Tatally agree with whats being said,but why didnt we get the video ref from the sky game (silverwood i think),whats the point of 2 full time refs at one game and a part time ref at the other!!

Tim Roby has been demoted this weekend.

Is it actually demotion, or just rotation?
We actually have more refs than we need for each round of weekly fixtures now, don't we?

Hunslet v Donny a demotion? Shurely not. Anyway, we have the brilliant Mr Child, so presumably everyone is chuffed.

Second week running that our referee has been in the Championship for the next game.

Co-incidence?

Childs should be afraid for the week after

I still dont see what Ganson did to get demoted, he always ref's like that and no one had bothered before

In fact there was never any official word that he was "demoted". As said, there are more refs than gigs, so maybe he simply made way to let the excellent Mr Roby improve yet further (if that were possible) with some more SL experience.

I see Mr Ganson has the south of France jolly this week, so he ain't exactly in any doghouse, is he, while the rest freeze off their nuts.

Maybe that why he went down a grade, so that he would get to go to france more often

Is it a coincidence that Stuart cummins has stepped down as refs boss today?

Oooooohhh the plot thickens

Anything is better than Roby (I hope)