Hes a Golborne lad called Scott Mikalauskas, reffed east u18 early in season and didnt do to bad.Watched him ref Wigan u16 v Whitehaven and he was awful.

I acknowledge all the effort that societies are putting into the development of referees but I can assure you from personal observations that some referees have not taken on board the respect advice.The majority of the young lads are fine but there is a minority who have a touch too much arrogance and an air of superiority that is like a red rag to a bull to the very people who are supposed to respect them.
Fortunately for every referee with a "bad" attitude there are scores with the correct attitude which is positive but whilst referees can be improved by education and experience you need to have a good raw material.

I think the penalty decision at the scrum was a poor call. How many times do we actually see a properly formed scrum in RL at any level? And to give the first penalty for it in the last minute was a bad judgement. If you are going to clamp down on it, do it in the first minute, not the last.

My more serious concern is how those two tackles didn't get properly dealt with at the time. The first could have caused some serious damage. Surely that should be more of concern than the penaly decision. Rugby is a tough enough game with tackles like that flyng about and going unpunished.

Or maybe that could be down to the fact he is in South Africa with BARLA U19s refereeing?

OMG he will get where water wont ,wonder how he got selected for that