The thing with child is in the first 10 minutes of each half he penalises everything and anything. I presume to 'stamp his authority' Then as the game continues he lets things go that he's previously penalised.
I would imagine the powers that be were watching very carefully as since "faggate" child has barely set foot at headingley!

He is easily the poorest ref in SL IMO.

He is, and i agree with Jools, he seems to go through spells where he never stops whistling and then has spells where it seems anything goes.
Still doesn't explain McDermott's strange comments though.

Child has it in for Leeds as the 9-9 penalty count demonstrates.

Did anyone notice that camera attached to his forehead?

Was its function to provide additional monitoring of Leeds?

Changing the subject slightly, why don't flops ever seem to get penalised these days?

Like: Moving off the mark, trapping in, diving, lying on, standing square...never gets officiated properly, it's anything goes at times with some refs.

Yet fairly innocent tackles get three game bans and red cards? I love this sport but it isn't half bizarre at times!

No complaints from me, he was just as dreadful for both teams.

I'm no fan of Childs and as a Wakey fan, I'm more than happy to see Cas or Leeds get beaten.
As a neutral, he (McDermott) is doing what most "fans" do and only watching where his own team get done and not taking account of where the opposition are being "wronged".

Leeds may have had a couple of tough calls but, you are quite right to point out the Leeds try from a clear knock on.
Cas deserved their win (gulp) and McDermott need to work on his own team (after Mondays game though )

Mcdermott is normally pretty level headed with his comments in defeat. His comments were somewhat cryptic. I couldn't think of many instances in the game where cas were given a penalty that wasn't a penalty. There was a knock on in the 2nd half that was given as interference, that's it. Factor in the hardaker knock on and I didn't feel leeds really got the bad end of anything. But the way McDermott worded it was like he wanted to vent his disapproval of something, but wanted to hide what it actually was.

My heart sinks every time I see his name as ref at Leeds game or any of the televised games I am watching. I have no issue last night re the result he wasn't to blame he was bad both ways. I personally don't like games he refs because he ruins them as a spectacle

None of us like Childs as our ref , he's rubbish , for everybody , but for McDermott to ' cryptically ' suggest Leeds are ' being treated differently is complete garbage , concentrate on your job , and stop blaming others

He was cryptic in an attempt to keep his money in his pocket rather than red halls. And he isn't exacally on his own criticising officials. I imaging most have done it in interviews

So you mean he doesn't have the balls to do it outright ?

Or he knows he's wrong , but wants to try to positively influence future refs for his Benifit like cheating ' cryptically ' ?

no worries, maybe use the quote button next time though?