New full-time Super League referee.

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Thoughts?

Well, he has a long way to go but this is the best way for him to improve quickly so we'll see how he gets on.

He is Scummings lovechild (pardon the pun) so no surprise here.

Ah

The "experts" are pronouncing AGAIN!!!!

And STILL they ain't got the bottle to do it themselves I would suggest!!!

He's one of the better ones of a corrupt and morally indiscriminate bunch of losers.

Truth is that the RFL needs to spend a bit more to generate the quality of individuals we need. Those in charge now are just plucky volunteers, the standards don't differ much from your average amateur ref. Using former players is one idea they could look at. Tommy Martyn would make a good referee.

What about Sean Long and Martin Gleeson, do you think they would make good refs?

He's dreadful.

During the first half of the Cas v Celtic match, Mr Childs just had no control of the game in my opinion. Then he penilised Cas about 6 tackles in a row for not having both feet behind the line (this could be picked up in every game), and then the sin binning of Shenton was comical.

And before people start saying why dont you give it a go, i have looked in this and the nearest course is in Manchester in June i believe. Surely with Yorkshire having such a large amount of rugby league supporter, there should be an induction course within the area.

...and don't ask any Leyther what they think of him. In fact several championship clubs had less than positive 'reviews' of his performances

i think he was the ref in charge when oldham beat widnes in a nrc game last season, he sent a widnes player off and ste mccomic got the sack due to that loss so he was good for somthing

Been hopelessly out of his depth every time I have seen him in NL1/Championship, so heaven only knows