That sounds exactly like the Alibert we all know and love.

A hideous referee.

Well you're wrong about Child, because on the Sky transmission you can quite clearly him say that he'd seen the incident and full marks to him for taking the correct action. Mickey Mac!! more like Mickey Mouse. The longer the ban, the better.

He saw the late challenge, he was allowing play on FFS! If Saints had scored off that play McIlorum would've stayed on the field most likely. You can hear him conversing with (mostly likely) the VR.

O'Donnell on Kirke was nothing, but an accidental clash of heads (albeit a bad one). Should never have been a sending off and doubt there will be any further action.

LOL, and yet this "unintelligent" coach takes a relatively unfancied - at the start of the season - squad to the top of League (Even Wigan fans thought 4th would be OK). A clueless individual obviously.

Some of these stains fans are soooo easy.

Rather than anything from the match, the thing that disgusted me was Eddie Hemming's comments relating to the young school choir singing the Joining Jack song. He introduced them as Sacred Heart School singing 'Grandma we love you'.

Disgraceful comments from a 'supposedly' professional commentator.

I doubt he knew the severity of the challenge and was conversing with someone, could have been VR, could have been touch judge. Either way the correct decision was reached, I find it difficult to criticise a ref for using all assets available to him to make the right decision.
He was allowing advantage not play on, and I doubt the outcome of that advantage would have made any difference, in fact it would give the ref, TJ's and VR longer to converse.

That's what many people have been calling for all season, myself included.

I'm not a terrific fan of Mr Child, but I thougt he got that one right; played advantage, took advice and the resulting decision was spot on. Good work from the officials.

Spot on. I can't stand him as a referee, and he should have been dropped on many, many occasions this year but sadly the standard of refereeing of late is as poor as I've ever seen it.

No complaints about the red card though, and if he got a word in his ear from someone, I haven't got any issue with that as the correct decisions should be enforced.

It's only been a couple of weeks since there was a ref on GMR saying that the video ref won't feed the referee any information, or prompt him unless he puts the square in the air.

If Saints had scored, no he wouldnt have stayed on the pitch and it wasnt the VR he was conversing with. When the incident happened, it was the Saints players shouting at him, which you can clearly hear him say to them "ive seen it and will deal with it" as play was continuing.

There was no involvement from the video ref. The referee saw it and acted upon it. He let play go on as mentioned to play advatage. When there was none, he pulled it back and sent the grub off.

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MM has been charged with a grade 3 offence and could be banned for up to 3 matches www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... -up-to-ban