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.

I would be interested to hear from Powell what actual incidents he thought went badly against them. On first viewing I thought a few decisions went against them when I was watching in real time but when the replays were shown the officials got it spot on.

I think both sides had one bad decision go against them first half but bar that there wasn't that much to groan about referee wise imo.

Maybe I've got my Cas blinkers on but rightly or wrongly Powell has complained about the referee after just two of our nine league/playoff defeats this season - Salford away back in April, and St Helens on Friday night. James Child was the ref for both. Which is hardly blaming the referee after 'every defeat.' I have yet to see Fridays game so can't comment on his performance.

The referees for our 28 league/playoff games have been:

Child 7
Thaler 6
Roby 4
Silverwood 4
Bentham 3
Hicks 2
Stokes 1
Cobb 1

But what incidents is he actually complaining about? What was so horrendous? Nobody seems keen to elaborate.

No idea Sir, like I say I haven't seen the match, I don't think a 41-0 defeat is down to the ref though. Just pointing out that as far as I can recall, Powell hasn't blamed the referee after every defeat.

As for him being smug after every victory as someone claimed earlier...again I can't see it, but maybe it's best if a neutral (i.e. someone who isn't a Cas or Leeds fan!) judges that!

He ridiculed the ref for not giving the Makinson try.

Also thinks we were on rough end of a stick from a lot of the 50/50s from reading today's RL press.

Seems very balanced to me and was just calling Child 'horrendous' in general. We do seem to have been on the end of a few wrong, bad calls from him though across this season.

Maybe that's because powell keeps slagging him off.