Over tha past month he has been VR at Batley, Widnes, Keighley, Whitehaven, Hull and at Catalans, he also attends games Friday, Saturday and Sunday every week.

This week there was a complete and full program for the SL and all the Championship and Championship 1. Last week Ray Tennant was the VR at Catalans and he certainly wasn't there for the Castleford match 3 weeks ago when they had all the snow.

The reason for travelling the day before and coming back the day after is purely down to flights.

Who's STANDARD!!!!???????????????????????

well im giving my opinion so mine.

I dont think they are good enough. I dont think they are improving enough.

I can always get you on a course so that you can show us all just how good your standards are.

An honest answer at least.

The trouble is you know that someone else will think differently.

Just look at the discussions on penalty tries etc, so the only "true" answer is to say "That person is where the buck stops" which of course takes us back to the beginning

My guess is that his or my standards wouldn't be as high, but then again neither of us are taking home a very comfortable full-time wage or have all week to work on our standards. The argument isn't who the better official is out of me, Smokey or Steve Ganson, it's what progress have standards of officiating made under the current regime?