Is James Child.

Must have upset someone to be getting us! Who did he have last week - I seem to remember him getting flak from Salford fans, when they were hammered by Leeds, the week before?

All refs have a hard job and always officiate the game to their best intents, why some Leigh fans have this persecution complex by the RFL is beyond me.Whoever is in the middle will do his job to his best ,let him do his difficult job.

And?

‘and’ nothing, he is one of the best referees on the payroll, i am surprised he is at York.

Which ‘and’ were you expecting?

Not much of a worry going into the York game with the squad we have. Different squad,different coach completely different mentality.

Mr Child will enjoy the new Leigh.

Are you implying that there was a previous Leigh team he did not enjoy? If it was that set of mercenaries we employed last season I agree with him.

There's been a couple of Leigh teams previous to the set of mercenaries he didn't enjoy.

he was awful on friday at huddersfield, once again giving bad decisions against us

Hence perhaps his 'sabbatical' in the Championship, next weekend?

Mr eight point try himself In the CC game against the Cats at Leigh, when Millward was Coach and, Jimmy awarded them an eight point try, see it every match don't you
Cats also awarded a try for a double movement too ! Just the beginning of his affection for us

Rugby has changed a lot since super league began, The rulebook has altered every season and the referees are undoubtedly scrutinised like never before.
I honestly think that we have some very good referees unfortunately we also have a culture whereby the ref is scared to make a proper decision for fear of getting it wrong...we see things passed to the video ref for the sake of it.we see incidents put on report when the ref clearly saw what occured.
Im not sure that refs are any better now than they were when the decision of the man in the middle was the final word

One thing i do think needs examining is the fitness of some refs...the game is played at breakneck speed now but the ref should be as fit as the players.
I have seen Gareth Hewer several times and he has made errors simply due to lack of fitness (unable to properly keep up) he is not the only one.

Overall though i do agree that they do try their very best to get things right...it would certainly be a poorer game without them

We saw many decisions passed to the video ref V Salford. Can't quite recall who the video ref was. Can you?

Referees have had to be much fitter as the years have passed, it is a long time since the blazer wearing officials used to patrol the middle third of the field and guess the rest.
You have used Hewer’s lack of fitness as a reason for getting decisions wrong, I would suggest is is lack of speed rather than fitness. If a speedster on the wing gets a 10 metre start over the ref from half way, why would you expect a ref to beat him to the line and watch the try being scored?

That would be funny / entertaining to watch them try, Beat the Reff