Apparently the french club are convinced that decisions are deliberately going against them! around 500 fans walked out of the last home game due to video ref rulings.

Bernard Guasch said





the club also believe that the RFL do not want Catalans in the grand final as this would affect attendences. They believe that the referee cost them to lose against warrington and saint helens.

coach Trent robinson added




the RFL have made a statement of




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There were 84,000 in Wembley in 2007 to see Saints vs Catalans. Admittedly they weren't all French fans, but there is no precedent for wanting Catalans away from finals.

They do have a point. I'm not convinced it's entirely bias as opposed to sheer incompetence, but the refereeing in Super League is absolutely horrific. It's one of the main factors holding the competition back, they really are incapable of doing the job. The referees are low calibre individuals who have no consistency, composure or judgement and the touch judges are a farce. They are fat or old or so young they quiver whenever the crowd make a noise. They contribute nothing and ignore blatant rulings because they are too scared to get involved.

The refereeing really wouldn't be any worse if you took the average joe off the street and asked them to do it.

They're not the only ones.

They have a long way to go before they have been shafted so many times in so many key games as Bradford have!

Anyway, about time they left and started a proper French SL

there is not the resources, fanbase or players to even consider a French SL

give over!

Try being a fan of Cas/Wakey/Salford then you'll know what it's like to be shafted by the refs on just about every 50/50 and quite a lot of the time, quite blatant wrong decisions.

It would be a shame to lose a team like Catalan Dragons. I do understand their frustration but their not the only team suffering from poor decisions from refs. It's like refs have grudges against some teams.

The RFL have grudges? Heaven forbib.

The RFL have grudges? Heaven forbib.

A few years back the Broncos went to the RFL with all sorts of data from several years worth of games and proved to them that they were consistently getting less calls than the northern teams. And it wasn't just a few decisions either, it was a considerable difference. The RFL looked at it all, agreed that London were getting diddled, and then did nothing about it. If I remember rightly Phil Clarke also did some digging into this and came to the same conclusion. Now we see that Catalans get the same treatment. Northern refs give decisions to northern teams, it's a fact.

On a more general point though, Stuart Cummings was an awful referee and ever since he took over the standard of officiating in this country has deteriorated.

It was not a voluntary tackle, he slipped.

If they genuinely believe that referees are conspiring to cheat them out of games, then the competition is better off without them.

Alibert was the ref on sunday so would be a bit pointless pointing out the fact that English refs have it in for them...