Mr Child gets alot of stick - especially at the start of this season (and rightly so). However, of late he seems to have improved dramatically. I do not see how this is worse than what he was doing at the start of the season.

If Childs has been dropped for this its a disgrace because Phil 'Bent' Bentham single handedly lost Cas the game against St's on Easter Monday. In that game St's had TWO sets of 7 tackles (one which they too scored from) and yet Cas had TWO sets of only 4 tackles! In addition Bentham forgot to single the last on another of Cas' sets leaving us turning the ball over on our own 40. Thats 5 sets he ballsed up in St's favour and yet nothing ever came of it. He also has form as he was shown up live on Sky at MM in the Hull derby for doing the same thing.

You saw his display in Cardiff? You saw and heard all about his horror show at Hull? Did you see the try that never was that he gave Crusaders for the clearest double movement you'll ever see? Did you see the try that never was that he gave at Salford a week before the Bradford game? Did you see some of the blatant errors he made in the Bulls game last week?

Mistakes are allowed, but the frequency and nature of those made by James Child suggest his competence to referee at SL level has to be seriously questioned.

What really has to be questioned is the decision by Stuart Cummings to give a young, inexperienced & recently criticised referee 2 very big games in consecutive weeks with the Leeds v Warrington followed by Bradford v Saints game.

Also while we're sticking the boot in to refs, whoever was reffing the Saints v Leeds game missed that Saints only had 5 players in a scrum and 8 players in the defensive line.

As for Wheels & Ski, stop de-railing the thread with stupid puns.

I saw a kicker miss a kick,he must be dropped immediately,I saw a forward miss a tackle,he must be dropped immediately,I saw a back drop a pass,he must be dropped immediately,I saw a coach select the wrong tactics he must be dropped immediately,I constantly read illiterate garbage on here,from people who have never made a decision in their lives.

Do you have any points to make?

If you think he's bad, ask older Australian supporters about a certain Greg Hartley (and stand well back!!).

Coaches and players would be sacked/dropped if they consistently made major errors in every game they were involved in. Childs is a professional referee, paid by the game a decent salary - at the very least he should perform with some level of competence.

Questions also need to be asked of Cummings - and his role in selecting and appointing the full time panel of refs.

Which leads to the question,why wasn't Silverwood treated in similar fashion to Childs ?

Despite the earlier pun his signals were NOT very good either,but it is fair to say there was a gale blowing with heavy downpours.

AND

Silverwood allowed a try following a pass from the floor in the same game.

He had a good game when he refereed Leigh v Widnes in the snow in '81

I didn't see the incident well enough to comment.

isn't his name 'Child'??

Well Ski laid the platform...

He isn't a professional referee-not that that justifies him making a mistake, which is what it was-a mistake.

Well there was no need for anyone else to jump on board.

He isn't refereeing a SL game this weekend.
He's touch judge in the Friday game at Salford and at HKR on Sunday.
So it does look like he's been dropped from refereeing for this weekend.