They have a long way to go before they have been shafted so many times in so many key games as Bradford have!

Anyway, about time they left and started a proper French SL

there is not the resources, fanbase or players to even consider a French SL

give over!

Try being a fan of Cas/Wakey/Salford then you'll know what it's like to be shafted by the refs on just about every 50/50 and quite a lot of the time, quite blatant wrong decisions.

It would be a shame to lose a team like Catalan Dragons. I do understand their frustration but their not the only team suffering from poor decisions from refs. It's like refs have grudges against some teams.

The RFL have grudges? Heaven forbib.

The RFL have grudges? Heaven forbib.

A few years back the Broncos went to the RFL with all sorts of data from several years worth of games and proved to them that they were consistently getting less calls than the northern teams. And it wasn't just a few decisions either, it was a considerable difference. The RFL looked at it all, agreed that London were getting diddled, and then did nothing about it. If I remember rightly Phil Clarke also did some digging into this and came to the same conclusion. Now we see that Catalans get the same treatment. Northern refs give decisions to northern teams, it's a fact.

On a more general point though, Stuart Cummings was an awful referee and ever since he took over the standard of officiating in this country has deteriorated.

It was not a voluntary tackle, he slipped.

If they genuinely believe that referees are conspiring to cheat them out of games, then the competition is better off without them.

Alibert was the ref on sunday so would be a bit pointless pointing out the fact that English refs have it in for them...

Every ref thread, every week poster bemoan X ref is the worst and Y ref is the best, the one week in which the said Y ref is in charge of their game they bring up all the misdemeanour's of Y ref and saying they're all rubbish.

In short no one thinks a ref is on their side everyone thinks they are for the other side.

Another point, if Catalan get to a final, they are everyone else's other team, the one they support in a neutral game.

If the Dragons played in this years final everyone bar the other teams supporters would back them and probably buy a ticket to watch them if they fancied a good game of RL.

One thing that should be done though is for the RFL to start training up more French Refs and eventually having a 70/30 split until more French teams are capable and able of competing in SL.

Simple fact is some teams get the 50/50 calls all the time
Some get the 75/25 calls too

You get used to it playing Leeds, Saints and Wigan - and now Wire (replacing the bulls)

its nonsense. I have never watched any game, and thought the referee decided it. I've thought teams were unlucky but never that the ref decided it. I thought Les Catalans were very very unlucky in those decisions and i honestly cant see how they were made, they were clearly and unarguably wrong, but the game is 80minutes long, there's a lot of decisions made in a game. I can see why Les Catalans would be upset.

Saying that the refereeing standard in our game isnt where it should be, referees too often seem to be sent out with an instruction to 'let it slide in this one' or 'clamp down in this one', i dont think it is bias, just general poor refereeing and poor leadership for them at the top

If you lose 99 times out of 100 it's your own fault.

Wire had a few chalked off at Saints but we still won the game, you can't blame the ref for a lack of performance.

they do ideed believe that