I think his refereeing more than anything almost lost control of the game. Leeds can take a lot of the blame for it almost spilling over but I suspect with a better referee much of the frustrations wouldn't be there.

we in the championship said this all along before he was promotoed to inflict himself upon sooperdooper league, one of the perks of not getting in 3 years ago was the resulting avoidence of Childs for a couple of years. unfortunately now we will be back in sooperdooper league next year we have him to look forward too.

I was going to write that but thought I'd get shot down for being bitter. Leeds got dirty early in the second half and the referees overall lack of control could have seen it turn nasty. Leeds got a fair few calls in our favour, ref had absolutely no baring on the result, but that was literally the worst officiating performance I've seen this season.

I wanted Catalans to win as I'm sure many did but I completely agree with you. Terrible refereeing. I accept no referee will get everything right but Childs seems to make things up as he goes along and risked losing control of the players at times with erratic decisions.

Agar was right then?

Probably, but no one listened because that was the first time!

What is it with northerners adding an S to the end of people's surnames for no reason whatsoever?

I wasn't aware I had

What you on about Listers?

No worse than adding an O.
Dobbo,Yeamo, etc.

what is it with southerners not being able to pronounce 'th'....'fank you' .............grow up lister or at least post something relevant.

I fink I know what you mean about that

In fairness to Mr Childs , reffing Leeds is an absolute nightmare , the amount of interference and cheap shots is quite ridiculous , he could easily have doubled up on the number of penalties against both clubs tonight

What is it with Listerssssssss poor attempts at fishing? Try contributing something worthwhile . . . . Awright geeezzaa

It does seem a bit strange that people slate him (justifiably might I add) yet insist on pluralising his name - as if one of him isn't enough.

At least the players on the field however gain the benefit of explanations of his decisions when they ask, which is more than the confused spectators in the stands get.

You should never leave a game talking about the referee, but when this bloke's in charge, people talk of little else.

One thing he did yesterday, which was unprofessional.........when his two touch judges were on the field, and he asked them what they saw, he took their reports, and then dismissively waved them away, saying "i dont need you".


Couldn't he have shown them a bit of respect, even if it was only "thanks for that".

He really needs to work on his communication skills, because there are some really good refs in the championship that are coming through, and i can see him slipping down the pecking order.