No, I made it all up. Why do you think I wrote it?

From The Laws of the Game:

[iThe Referee should not disallow a try because he was not in a position to see the grounding of the ball.[/i

Hence "Benefit of Doubt"

Was at the game last night and sat virtually parallel with that incident. It was marginal but you cannot fault the refs positioning for it, he had the best view of anyone. That nothing has really been made of the Dan Marino pass for the first Leeds try shows that some cannot accept that these things even themselves up. In this case it was in the same game.

Regarding Childs, yes his blows his whistle too much and there were a couple of odd ones, but it was both ways.

I couldn't see why tickles wasn't given on BOD.

Ha thanks for that

I think everyone wants a free flowing game but it's the not refs fault if the players are offside or attempting to gouge someones eyes out or head high tackles.

Enthralling maybe but as a professional RL game I still say it was pants and both teams, especially Leeds are capable of far better. The error rate was off the scale at times in both attack and defence.

Like I said on the Leeds board, have to disagree. I think Jon does a great job, and I don't see why you can't see the difference between "divided" (which can be any proportion) and "split down the middle" (which is an even division).

And whilst I disagree with his comment about the Tickle no try, he's trying to be positive and back the ref.

Other than those two, what else has he said to grind your gears? Must be more than two things surely?!

Off the scale? Really?

But, of course, if the Winos had won there would have been no comment.

Not wishing to offend or anything, but had you been drinking heavily prior to the game?

Don't support Leeds and not having a go at either team in particular, just making a general comment as a neutral.The game was entertaining and I suppose that's the point but the standard was generally poop.

Only for medicinal purposes.

Can’t see any other threads about last night’s game on here so I will add to this one

Good game, really enjoyed it and Hull FC are starting to become an 80 minute team

Some very good performances and in particular from some young English centre and wing partnerships... Briscoe being the clear stand out of course and his second try couldn’t have been scored by many players in Super League, the combination of strength and speed he has is very impressive

Pity the thread is about the ref and all the negatives from last night and not the game itself but I guess you get used to that when you’re a Rugby League fan