We were awful and have been pretty much since the cup final, nobody disagrees with this. Having said that James child is the worst referee I have ever seen in he sport, if he is able to take charge of a top flight game then we may as well start recruiting blind folk.

Obviously the best coach in the country isn't as knowledgable as most on here but I'll agree with him

Cas have a consistent and unusually low win percentage when James Child is reffing and that has gone back years (from memory there's only been 3 wins with him in charge - Lock Lane in the cup and Wakefield twice this year) every 70-30 never mind 50-50 goes to the other team.

That said, Cas could still be playing right now and still wouldn't have scored a try.

Could that not be because, on the whole, Cas have been pap for most of James Child's career

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 ?

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).

Can you attribute blame to a ref in a 41-0 defeat, yes I think you can, I remember Ganson reffing us v Hudds inna playoff game, he reffed in such a way it played to our strengths and eliminated all Hudds strengths.

So yes I think you can blame a ref for a one sided loss.

Question though, do I think Cas lost due to the ref? No, all their own fault.