If I was ben thaler I'd book a cheap holiday for the forst week in october cause he's not got a chance of reffing before 2013. Up there as one of the worst reffereeing performances I've ever seen.

His TJs didn't help but he really is bad.

feel sorry for cats! ref was a disgrace!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the trouble is stuart cummings comes out and defends there errors

Ref gave it to Leeds at critical moments. I expect McGuire will have a week or two off for his swinging arm !

Hard to say Leeds didn't deserve it though, and Fakir benefited as much from weak reffing as anyone! Can't see McGuire playing next week though, and maybe not again this year.

Could well be same last 4 as last year again. And that's the problem with the English game!

WOW Catalan which part of England is that.

hope its not the wembley *bottlers* v the g/f *bottlers* again this year.

If it is they deserve it and will mean we mess up again

because obviously every time wires have got to the GF theyve won it every time. how many times have you won it, i m getting on a bit and cant remember so if you could remind me again it would be appreciated.
thanks.

and again I say the playoffs are NOT intense due to a step up in the Quality of Rugby League, they are simply hyped up by Eddie hemmings and ref'd by bungling fools who simply ignore the rule book that they have been bumbling along with all season.......

one of the most important games of the season and not one but a handful of appalling game defining decisions were made by Thaler........

I mean the clown does Atkins last week in a moment of pedanticness (not a word.dont care!)by saying BOTH feet behind the line, yet Jamie Peacock stands at the side of the guy playing the ball. Not in front and to the side, but literally by the effing side of him... and kills 5 tackles for Catalan on the leeds line........for me thats the worst of a long list of howlers tonight

the intensity has not ramped up at all. The importance of the game has and the importance of the bungling refereeing decisions have and when they go wrong eddie can scream like a banshee and say something clever about playoff football and leeds being here before and not writing off the Saints blah blah, but the product is not the same that has been played out all season to a reasonably high standard due to the way the games are ref'd and thats wrong.

i'm at a loss to understand these play off games, its a feckin good job we dont win many so i dont have to.

Well that's Wigan v Leeds

Saints v Winners of tomorrow

Saints v Leeds final
boring.