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He'll get away with it, the Leeds officials will have a word with the RFL about it. Hang about, the Leeds officials ARE the RFL.

Pah!!!!

Typicall Whino.

Maybe he should ask how the Leeds try was given ? Considering he was a mile offside.

Silverwood was spot on. Just desserts for Leeds, they are poor in regards to dissent.

Just logging on to ebay now I assume!

Shouldnt say those things in public and though i do agree, its disappointing he has done so.

I did think Silverwood was very very poor in his bossing of the ruck. Im not saying he favoured melbourne or anything like that but i thought he was poor.

I would also say that Silverwood shouldnt be the target, the problems we have in officiating in this country come from the very top and its Cummings who needs to go

Good on the guy i say.

Like it or lump it that game was nearly decided on a ref being pedantic and not being able to realise what it means to professional athletes. Sad to think that a game like that could have been decided because the ref isn’t man enough to take a bit of name calling.

The ref was poor tonight and you could see the frustration in the players on both sides. If Senior gets punished for this then it’s another case of covering up the unfortunate truth that the refs in this country just aren’t good enough.

Hefty fine coming his way.

If there's one thing true about the RFL, it is that they defend their officials to a fault.

And sometimes it is quite literally to a fault.

I don't think he was pedantic. We should be proud in Rugby League of the respect the officials get. Don't want it to turn into football like Wayne Rooney spouting off all the time.

Senior's comments are of a bitter sore loser. He should question himself rather than the referee.

The game was played under International Rules, not SL rules or NRL rules, hence it being a different interpretation at the play the ball. You even heard him mention it during the game to the players.

completely agree, senior remarks just smack of a bad loser, totally unproffesional


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the rules governing the play the ball are the same in the NRL, SL and international rules.

It would be very interesting if Silverwood has admitted he decided to interpret the same rules differently for one specific match

Yeah, I was watching the match with a football supporting mate. He was gobsmacked that we'd award a penalty for shouting at the referee. After looking at how much abuse football refs get, I'm proud that we know in our sport if you start hurling abuse at the ref you'll be punished.

I don't want it to get like football but it's getting to the stage were you can see the frustration coming out in the players as the refs are getting far to big for their boots as they are backed to the hilt by Cummings regardless of their performances.

Who was the last ref to publicly apologise that he’s made a major mistake or it was made clear he was dropped due to a bad performance? How can Silverwood get a massive game like that just one week after his poor performance in the Wire vs Wigan game?

If the official channels aren’t working and the refs still aren’t competent then I’m all for what Senior has done tonight.

If these things aren’t said in public then I doubt anything will ever change and we’ll always be subjected to the pick and mix style of refereeing we’ve seen over the past decade.

Also i'm sure that Senior will be one of the first to say how good the Storm were tonight but it doesn't mean he shouldn't be angry at Silverwood.

This really clarifies my thinking that if the injustice suffered by Castleford on Saturday night had happened to Leeds, the media wouldn't have stopped banging on about it...

Silverwood was fine, both teams were slow at the ruck. Senior's a sore loser and nothing more