One of the worst video referee decisions I've ever seen. If he can watch that three times and conclude that it's a try then he's clearly not fit to be a referee. I can deal with on field referees making mistakes but that is just an absolute joke of a decision.

Yep Silverwood, it wasn't as if the ball was millimetres away from touching grass, it was a good few inches away.

Here here, how does he justify that, it was plain to see he dropped it.

Now he's trying to even it up..fookin disgrace!

Yep. I can understand there can be differences of opinion on some issues, but that was absolutely clear. The ball never touched the ground at any point.

I agree with Knockersbump, it doesn't show the sport in a good light when an obvious decision can't be reached by a full time referee looking at a video.
I can understand Child thinking it was a try in real time, that was utter incompetence from Silverwood though.

Piss poor defending by Salford but good play by McShane again.

I'm still absolutely bewildered by that decision. You don't even need a good understanding of the rules to not give it. You could drag someone in off the street, sit them down in front of that video, explain that a try is given when someone puts the ball on the ground and then ask "Is that a try?". To which literally anyone, other than Silverwood, would reply "No, the ball never even touches the ground."

The daft thing was, Silverwood never said "yes it's a try".....he said he couldn't see a good angle so had to go with the on field decision.

Like you say I can understand when refs send some up as tries in realtime so likewise I can understand on a few occasions the VR isn't given great angles/replays to judge from to overturn but that was easy to see.

It's even close to being that, the tansy one did not even involve the video ref just a infield cock up, that today is just unacceptable.

Dobson/Lui being outplay by a prop/overweight hooker

True, at least the Tansey mistakes were real time rather than video.

Child: "The ball is on the line"

Replay shows the ball clearly not on the line.

FFS.

Doesn't matter as far as the result is concerned we've been poor and Cas deserve to win, but Silverwood should be dragged over the coals for that. Absolutely awful decision.

Attitude from Cas was superb. Great coverage from the bbc claiming solomona scored a hatrick and James milner was struggling with cramp.

Silverwood giving the first one was bad enough but to then try make up for it by disallowing what should have been a perfectly good try to "even it up" was just ridiculous.

For the first one, it's all well and good claiming you don't have a camera angle but it was clear as day he dropped it! Just awful.

For Cas to win that game though was huge. Most of the squad sat in the stand, players out of position and dominated the game.