Tend to agree with the previous: as a way of awarding a try that should not have been, mis-counting the tackles is pretty much a rarity in comparison to missed forward passes, knock-ons etc.

Wish I'd seen Holdsworth's set of one though

Been dropped this week though you won't see it in the press.

is sent to a maths lesson

That I would agree with - if young players are sent on the initial courses free of charge, as part of their development plan with whichever club they're playing for, it could have two-fold benefits; firstly, increasing their understanding of the stress and difficulty faced by the ref during a matche, which may lead to less dummy-spitting and a greater understanding amongst players and ref's, and secondly, some of them might decide to take further courses as insurance for the time when their playing career comes to and end, thus increasing the pool of potential first-grade match officials.

maybe they should hold 6 small pebbles in one of their hands like cricket umpires, then simply swap a pebble to their other hand when a tackle is completed.... problem solved... we can also rename 'tackle' to 'pebble' to avoid any potential confusion.

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Not been given a game this week - Cas' - Hull's Thomason, so I wonder if he was initially down for that.

Also when a fight breaks out they can lob pebbles at the back of their heads to break them up
To be fair the lineman do naff all for me, refs have a big responsibilty and dont get helped out enough e.g Dragons vs kr with the knock on. And there must be two linesmen that cant count to six aswell.

Wouldn't have thought so. Richard Silverwood is doing 2 games this week and James Child is on holiday this week so guess he was down for the Widnes game.

That would seem to be the case - incidentally, Uncle Alibert hasn't been downgraded but dropped completely.

anyone that saw Aliberts awful performance at the weekend will fully understand why he has been dropped.

No sympathy for the man. If we mis-count things at work it costs us money if it's too many and sometimes customers if it's too less. I can accept mistakes happen but they usually end up with a ticking off in the office. Alibert's dropping for this weekends round of games is his ticking off for his inability to be able to count to 6.

No, I guess you won't...

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I suppose it's reasonable that, just like in any other job, refereeing errors of this magnitude have consequences for the responsible individual; it doesn't help WTW though.

Is this going to be a common thing dropping refs for errors? If this the case the weekend of the 30th March there will be no matches as there are no refs as they will be all dropped.

Slightly OT didn't Bentham do something similar last year? It was on Sky and I think it was Wire who were playing (can't remeber the opposition), where he called the 5th tackle just as the player was being tackled. Did anything happen to him?