Just watched the highlights on SLTV and that obstruction, when they scored straight away afterwards, must go down as one of the worst decisions ever made. Bentham was looking directley at it.

It really does my head in when people constantly blame or pick on officials when a judgement call goes against. What about the blatant forward pass for Gibsons try off Patten, come on people Ref's and officials are human.

Decisions go with you, and decisions go against you, it's a part of any sport. It's a matter of how you respond to them which is the most important. Of course though, there are times when it can completely change a match. Say the obstruction on Friday was in the dying seconds and Hull scored a winning try, then I'd be annoyed. But it wasn't, and we responded well enough to go on and win.

The one decision that really inflamed me (and I did take ref's exams and did ref) was when their scrum-half grabbed the ball from our second row WITHOUT retreating behind the scrum.
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Scums suddenly became a bigger joke.

Does anyone actually know why the try we scored in the second half was dissalowed?

because the south stand were calling the touch judge and laughing at his ginger hair at the earlier conversion. I think he indicated that a Hull player had been pulled back so in effect Obstruction, but Bent Ham was a lot closer to the "incident" and saw nothing but that is not unusual.

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Gibson's 1sy try was from a chip kick by Holdsworth, his 2nd was from a ' flat ' backhand pass from Gleeson reminiscent of Joel Moon's pass to Broughton at Saints.
his 3rd try was chalked off , and the only reason I can see is Luke Adamson's contact with Horne was called as interference, a bit ripe considering Hull's first effort!

Whilst the obstruction in the lead up to Hull's try was blatant , the team should have played to the whistle, not stood around with their hands on their hips moaning about the injustice of it all...
Seymour's try was made through a barn door wide gap past Nero end of ..

Thats obstruction was a disgraceful call evry player from both sides just stopped.

To be fair the ref stood still,put the whistle in his mouth. Then changed his mind when every player had stopped including the hull player with the ball and waved play on.

To be fair, just before the obstruction try, Bentham gave a drop out after we apparently knocked the ball dead. To everyone around it me looked like the Hull player had got there first and it should have been a try... Swings and roundabouts.

The 50/50 decisions we can all sort of accept [ swings and roundabouts and all that ]but its the real howlers which do our `eads in, and that was a real stinker !!!!

DF I can forgive refs for getting forward passes wrong, speed of the players makes it difficult to be in perfect position every time, but shockers like that are pretty inexcusable for a professional ref, it was a blatant obstruction. Still who gives a monkeys, we won regardless of the bad decisions

The disallowed try i believe was for crossing, or that's what i saw Bentham signal. To be honest i thought that at the time.

i couldnt believe it when i saw the highlights,bentham couldnt be in any better postion to see that obstruction. I can forgive refs not giving forward passes as they are already infront of the play.. and there try in the second half i thought he hit the flag first tbh, Watching the highlights on safords website gibbos 3rd try was fine.Do the rugby league look at the ref's performances each week? the only decent ref for me at the moment is the french guy and i still dont think hes that good

I thought the 3rd Gibson try was chalked off for a Hull player apparantly being held back, but I must admit, I didn't see that incident and neither did Bentham. As GT says, I also thought the drop out was a Hull try (and had we had a video ref would have been given, just as surely as Hull's first would have been chalked off), I'm not sure whether Bentham had realised he'd made an error and decided to even things up but it just shows that we all see things differently and it was swings and roundabouts. Lest we forget, we had the better of the penalty count, including a few that were doubly advantageous, e.g. one was given against Hull on the 5th tackle near the halfway line and it's a long time since I've seen that situation handed to a Salford side.

I'm sure I read that the rule had been changed this season so that now you are not deemed to be in touch if you hit the corner flag while in the air diving over for a try. Can anyone confirm this or did I dream it?