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.

That's probably because for a start we do not have linesmen in rugby league we have touch judges. A touch judge has just 3 responsibilities, they judge all matters regarding touch, they judge kicks at goal and they provide input where requested from the referee. I was at the Dragons match and in the corner where the incident happened and from my view Salter got to the ball first and knocked it on and if there was a Cats knock on it came after that though I couldn't be sure. Obviously having seen the clip of it I have different information now and would have called for the knock on but unfortunately when you are in the middle and have to make that decision you don't have the replay facility and can only go on what you have seen from your own view point. The fact that having had further information that you did not have at the time that may have changed your decision doesn't make you a bad official.

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?