After all the moans and groans about Refs all season and especially about Mr Childs early season, I think it's only fair to say that the Ref was excellent last night.
NO it's not because we won. I thought he handled both sides fairly and didn't make any obvious howlers. After witnessing how we got hammered by the Ref at Wigan last Sunday, turning a defeat into a battering, it was refreshing to actually enjoy the game and not notice the Ref very much at all. WELL DONE MR CHILDS!

I know it isn't the ref perse but I was appopletic when in the 2nd half Kevin Brown was throwing punches on the wing in front of the shed right in front of the linesman who started to come onto the pitch to bring it to the refs attention, only to slink back to the touchline and not even bring it to Childs attention. Was for me shocking and something he should be dropped down a division for.

i think he is! The players don't respect him,and I believe that he makes too many bad calls to be up to the standard required. once again we had a crossing call in midfield that may have been costly in the long run. crossing is a misnomer, somebody has to be obstructed,I didn't see an obstruction.
I do know that the super league referees brief their officials on their teams for that week. They are given pre conceived points of what each team gets up to,(I am led to believe that our captain is percived to be a whinger). I think that this is unacceptable and that officials should judge each team on their behaviour in each game.

[iMr Child last night in my opinion spoiled the game.

Also he was not tough enough in certain areas.

The incident when the Huddersfield player kicked the ball at him should have resulted in a sin-binning for sure.

Also what was also not acceptable last night was when the the flag man entered the field and then decided to retreat. I was always under the opinion when a flag man went on the pitch he stood still and waited for the Ref to decide what if any action should be taken.[/i

I have to say I fully agree. I thought that he handled the game very well indeed. More or less every call that he made was spot on, obviously there are going to be the odd one or two that he gets wrong, but I felt that he got all the major decisions right. He even admitted his own fault in the second half when he changed his decision because of the touch judges call to give us a tap 20 instead of a goal line drop out. Most importantly, he didn't blow up for needless penalties which would have spoiled the game.

I thought he did OK and was pleased that he tried to let the game flow.

The one decision that did baffle me though was what appeared to be a Ratchford knock-on in centre field near the end of the game. I thought he'd knocked on, but then the ref seemed to indicate that the ball had been stripped but then gave a scrum (rather than a penalty?!) with H&F to us ..... then gave a differntial penalty to us at the scrum?!

Did anyone see the incident better than me and know what happened? Or did Childs just have a bit of a brain fart??

I think what happened was Ratchford had the ball stolen one on one, the Huddersfield player then knocked the ball on straight after stealing it, which resulted in a scrum to us. Then at the scrum, the Huddersfield prop struck at the ball, resulting in the differential penalty to us.

I thought the ref did ok last night. He's been rightly pilloried by fans for a good while but he got the majority of the calls right last night. A few did go our way (like the break they made in 1st half which came off Grix's knees, Patten knocked on but we got the scrum).

As for the Kevin Brown incident, yeah the linesman was at fault, the ref is unable to see everthing and if the linesman is going to come on, he should always raise his flag. Also Gleeson gave him a good smack in the tackle which caused the issue but of course there is no place for retaliation.

But Mr Childs indicated that the ball was stolen and from the club end the opinion was that there were two in the tackle, plus the obstruction in the middle of the field against us, Hudds appeared to do a blantant obstruction in the first half and he just turned away. But the game did flow and who knows if Sky would have picked our game we may have had a couple of more tries from the video ref, but they choose Wigan's 12 try one sided affair so good for super league publicity.

Would we? Remind which 'no trys' the video ref would of given then.

Would have been interesting to see a replay of when Cashmere went over but a knock on was given.

That's one Pev was referring to - Cashmere certainly seemed to behave like he'd scored and so did the Hudds players.

Cannot for the life of me understand why Sky picked the Bradford/Wigan game given that Bradford have been pummelled on a number of occasions this year, at the same time if I were Sky I wouldn't have picked our game either on the same basis. Would have thought that the Warrington game was the tie of the round really.

All in all think childs did ok as well.

But the liner definately needs a yalking too. He saw the swing from brown came on started to put his flag up and then just retreated. Would love to know why?

Stood right in line with the Cashmere incident. A definite knock-on.