It didn't zoom in on the 9, but it got pulled out immediately after the 6, and there's a noticeable pause before he calls it.

the 'base' of the no 6 which is flattened for clarity is uppermost, therefore it should have been called as Bradford.
To not change this would be another sign of how crap our sport has become..

It did zoom in to show the 9 on camera and it did zoom in to show the 6 ball when it was drawn immediately afterwards. Murphy though, as he did for a few of the ones he drew, after reading the number held the ball up to the camera with the number still facing himself and not showing to camera. As a result nobody watching on TV saw what the 6 ball looked like. I recorded the match and draw and have re-watched the draw after reading of this situation on here.

As broadybull87 alluded to, nobody saw the 6 that Murphy drew to identify what it looked like. There may or may not have been an error but it does need clarifying.

The uncertainty exists because nobody saw the number on the 6 ball that Murphy drew. What could be seen to be a flattened base on the 9 ball that we did see the number of, could be a flattened base for what was actually a 6 or it could be there due to the top of the 9 being at the edge of a line between two sections of the pattern on the glass ball. (The balls were etched to look as if they were made of four panels like a real ball). Where a line is present to distinguish numbers it has always been a distinct separate line below the number, not a flattened lower edge. A flattened lower edge only could be seen as a printing error. The ball Murphy drew but mistakenly did not show the number of may have a clear line or dot at the base of the number clearly denoting it as a 6 (or it may not). Without seeing both balls and their numbers we cannot be certain either way whether Schofield did indeed draw a 9 or a 6.

If they redraw the draw then they replay Saints v Hudds

I can't remember a farce-free challenge cup draw

There should be an enquiry & the draw should be altered regarding the six & nine balls.

But what should we expect letting ex-players perform technical duties.

They're a bunch of incompetent idiots.

They're claiming on twitter there was no confusion, that they were right all along. And they have pictures to "prove" it. And the pictures show that the 9 had a line under it, but there was no line on the live pictures as people have confirmed with screen grabs. The balls don't even look the same.

Getting the draw wrong, whilst embarrassing, is understandable.

The worrying thing is that the RFL have now clearly lied on their twitter feed and showed completely different balls to try and provide 'evidence'', I'm shocked by this really.

Memo to RFL, next year write six on the 6 ball. , get the BBC to have more cameras at the TV games and sort the refs out they are ruining the sport. That display today was embarrassing