The club has been waiting all year for a game done by a super league ref.

The telly games will all be SL refs. The champ refs will get the lower profile games

Mr Thaler will have the pleasure of reffing us on Saturday let's not hope he follows Mr Cobb rule when reffing his home town team.

Thaler comes from Normanton which fwiw is nearer Castleford than Wakey, both Normy and Cas come under WMBC. known as Wakefield and the 5 towns. If he chooses to give us a leg up I'm sure there won't be any complaints from us.

Thaler's been best ref by a country mile this year, so very pleased with his appointment. They certainly won't be any leg up from him.

Happy with Thaler being ref. It's a very important game so it's good that it's going to be refereed by a top SL ref.

I said this game needed a strong referee and that's what we've got so I'm happy. Just hope I still feel that way on Sat evening however! Is this our first game of the season with a video ref?! Can't say I've missed that bit of being in SL!

Not all Trinity supporters are under estimating the Bulls. It should be a tight game and can go either way although the Bulls have a good history beating us.

Personally I'd like both West Yorkshire clubs to be in Super League and the Leigh bubble to burst along with Salfords.

Yeah, agree.

speed rather than the speed which would be required by a ref Like Thaler. Hence my comment about how we do it in training.

I'm sure Ben Thaler referees every game as he sees it and makes his decisions on merit.
That said if you were looking for some kind of bias in his officiating then on past performances Wakefield fans would say he tries so hard not to favour Trinity that he often gives debatable decisions to their opposition.

He's the best referee in the competition!

I rate Thaler so it's a good appointment.

I hope....