Quote: PC Plum "Penalty count 14/16 so pretty even and everyone of them justified. He refereed what he saw and I thought he refereed pretty well. That said, for the first 10 mins when he was hammering us with pens I thought he was in the pay of Beaumont.
I think Leigh fans issue is they thought, even though they werent at full strength, they should turn up and hammer London (as they have done before) and we werent playing along with that storyline'"
Don't think anyone expected London to be anything other than a tough game. Everyone can see London are a Full time team who after a bad start with similar disruption to their coaching staff as we're having this year finished very strongly last season. London are a undoubtedly a good team who'll be up there pushing top 4.
The trouble with Stokes is his inconsistency, yes they probably all were technically penalties, however only for about 10/15 min before that he ignored players doing the exact same thing, went mad on his whistle for 10 or 15 min then went back to ignoring it again; then he'd find some other minor infringement to pick up on which he'd completely ignored up till then. It's no wonder players give away lots of penalties when the ref can't decide what's acceptable and what isn't and it's no wonder players & fans get frustrated when refs are so inconsistent.