In all honesty - I believe that Justin will probably regret his rant .... I know I can remember a few choice words I have come out with in the course of work - he did not reprise those comments in the Harry Poole Bar after the match and so definitely had cooled off somewhat ...... we move on ..... hope you continue your show of form ....hope we don' meet you in the Challenge Cup and will look forward to visiting you .... and on that note I am retiring for my beauty sleep .....

Discuss.

If Morgan is referring to Thaler's lax handling of the play the ball, he has a point.

Penalty try against Australia. Nuff said.

Its not about his 'moaning' as you put it, but the paying public getting a decent service from referees, I can live with a defeat, in fact if we had any other ref today we would have lost, but this bloke Thaler is far to consistantly rubbish, today was a classic case of how not to referee when teaching new officials.

Wish we had him every week

he is.....thats why he's normally first choice for australai v nz games...the aussie press loved him*











* until the RLWC08 final that is....



ps the penalty try against australia in the world cup was 100% the right call

Having not seen the game, I can't pass comment on the performance of Ben Thaler - but what I will say is this. I am sick of reading on here about how referees are causing defeats, how everything is their fault rather than, say a better team winning, mistakes by a player, poor gameplay by a coach.

The RFL should start handing out fines and/or point deductions for criticism of match officials, that would stop the endless whining soon enough.

They also pay to see a decent performance from the players too

How many passes did Thaler knock on, or put forward? How many kicks did he miss time, how many penalties didnt find touch, how long did he lay on in the tackle, or stray offside? How many tackles did he miss?

When teams put in flawless performance, then they can gripe about the ref.

You are only saying this because EVERYONE knows Thaler robbed us at Belle Vue last year.

Whether or not Morgan is right if this was football he would be charged with bringing the game into disrepute. I would imagine that he will be summoned to the RFL to explain his comments and possibly face some sort of action.

But also the refs are demoted etc when they are .

A load of, er, 'fans' beef off at referees on an internet forum, and it's acceptable.

A coach, a man who knows more about rugby than the 'fans' do, beefs off about a ref and all of a sudden it's a 'dummy spit', he's 'moaning', etc.

Freedom of speech, entitled to his opinion etc. He even states it had no bearing on the result.

Amazing