Conviently timed, the RFL are advertising a referee's course. I wonder if the many closet match officials on here would be willing to take up the whistle?

Given what we know they only want people to toe the party line, they aren't interested in change, they can't/won't accept that how they are doing things is not just badly managed but is having a massively detrimental effect on the game as a whole not just individual results.
If you think that if some people on here apply and stick through the garbage of getting through the ranks (as storied on here a couple of years ago) will change anything you're sadly mistaken.
It not only needs investment, it needs professionals, something that Ganson et al are not, that and a complete shake down in how the RFL approaches how the sport is officiated because currently there is so much wrong in how that is done that no individual will make a jot of difference.
They don't even understand the basics of human psychology and why most human beings tasked with winning and as a part of that physically and mentally beating their opposition will behave to do so.
They cannot grasp how you deal with this, they fail to look back as to why officials back in the old days were able to control certain aspects massively better. Yes there are some aspects that have improved but the overall is far far worse.

Bentham wasn't bad, but now that I think about it...has Bentham actually reffed a game since that collision with Houston?
I know he's been a video ref plenty of times since then but I can't ever remember seeing him on the pitch reffing?

I agree, Thaler is the only decent ref out of the bunch.

Kendal and Childs are well below par. Hicks and Hewer are not as bad, but still no where near consistent enough.

I felt the same - he was clearly trying his best to persuade and cajole the captains into addressing the issues for some time before he started dismissing people; I guess it's indicative of the habit of hearing a ref say "talk to you players and sort it out, or I will," then walking back into the line saying nothing, and smirking like a kid who's got away with being naughty.

I'm not sure what else he was supposed to do - it was a ridiculous display of petulant unprofessionalism and thuggery, and they got everything they deserved; well played Mr Thaler - he should run courses for other refs on how to deal with idiots on the field.

Well said they played us in the cup last season and they bashed the hell out of our boys. I did post on the Warrington forum when they got this draw that I felt sorry for them and to be prepared for a busy medical room.

It all went as expected with Rowley's bar room brawlers.

He has a broken leg.

There is as much nonsense on the Thaler side as there is on the 'he's corrupt' side. Thuggery? There wasn't a bad challenge or incident in the whole game.

The problem with Thaler's showing was that he didn't referee both sides the same. The lack of discipline up to the flare up under the posts was very even, yet only Toronto copped the punishment for that. If Thaler had sin binned Hill under the posts like he should have I'd possibly have sympathised with him, instead he was ultra pedantic with Toronto and lenient/normal with Warrington. A yellow for Hill and Simms under the sticks would have sorted that whole issue out.

McCrone stepped over the line of bringing the game into disrepute. Its not ref its Sir.

Not 1 Toronto player charged with the RFL disciplinary.

Bizzare

The RFL needs to keep Saturday's top-billing match against terrific Toulouse an interesting one.

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