We beat hull fc away in mattersons last year with him in charge,we also won at cardiff(2011) with him in charge too

Powell has had an issue with him all year ,read his comments about him following the salford away match

Wow....a Frenchman (allegedly) calling somebody surrender monkeys....my ironymeter has just exploded.

Shock - Horror - Super League coach in ref blasting tirade. I bet that gets some headlines in the RL papers tomorrow.

I did not think he reffed too badly at all, generally consistent. Yes he allowed saints to hold down but he also allowed cas the same luxury.

Powell could have reffed the game himself and not affected the outcome.

according to the stats cas got more penalties ?

Child was truly awful. He gave Saints everything & killed Cas early in the game. I'm a fan of neither side & actually took Saints at 6/1 to win the GF.

I'm glad they are just 80 minutes away from being able to try & erase that run of bridesmaid appearances, but I completely agree with Powell on this.

He does also say Saints were too good for Cas & that his side need to be far better.

Up until Friday Saints were yet to win a game with Child this year after 4 attempts... So our win percentage under him was 0%

That must have been a proper pulling off!!

must read posts back before posting!

Beat me to it

Every club's fans think Child is against them because he can produce horrendous performances time and again so there is a good well to drink from if you want to bring up some perceived historical slight.

Unlike certain referees, I don't think he is biased; he just isn't very good.

Very surprised at how Powell has criticised the ref. I think his game management was good.

I can't think of many decisions that were questionable too. The only two I can think of is where Thompson lost the ball but he called a strip (understandable given how the ball came out) and the forward pass that never was (but not sure who made that call).