Gobsmacked! I just don't have the words.

[i'Criminal'[/i [i'Fraud'[/i [i'Inept'[/i [i'Unfit'[/i [i'Blind'[/i to name but a few words that go nowhere near describing Ansell's performance today .....

Deserves a Official Complaint to the RFL in my opinion.

Allowed Fev to slow the PTB to crawling pace, several wrong way penalties & don't even get me started on the punch thrown when taking the ball into the tackle by the Fev No16, a punch which connected full in the mush on our defender & was punished *see rewarded* with a penalty to Fev.

Beyond Belief.

He was the bloke in the middle vs Bradford at the Summer Bash, yes? Almost like he was a different person - still at least it was more entertaining than the rugby.

He was bang on in line of the elbow. Thought he blew for that,then changed the decision after the handbags.As for the knock on,that left me lost for words.

Wasn't an elbow Atomic ..... it was [iA Punch[/i , saw it clear as day as it happened about 5 yards from me & directly in line of his run ....

How their 16 remained on the field & how they benefited from the penalty awarded will go to my grave with me.

Agreed, he did well at Blackpool, but 2nd half today especially he was awful. And why was it that we got penalised for slowing 'quick' play the balls, but Fev were not penalised once ???
Having said all that though, Rovers looked far more enterprising in attack, but we were so 'predictable & slow' in attack. Spoke to Fevgrinder at the Whistling Wren (nice fella) and he was worried they might get stuffed today, but I'm guesing right now, that he's gutted that they didn't win. We were there for the taking today...(and not all because of the Ref). If we had have played well, the 'man in the middle' would have been insignificant.

That was the worst game of rugby I have seen all season live or on TV.

It was played in super slow motion by 2 teams that were frankly awful. Defences were decent but the attack was none existent. Both teams tried to slow the game down as much as possible and the ref just let them and so both sides pushed it further and further until the match slowed to a crawl.

Fortunately for us we were slightly less sheeite than Fev were.

Ref gave them everything and when he didn't we gave it to them ourselves with shocking play. Knock ons, forward passes, kicks out on the full! Good god we were poor!

Can't believe that is the same referee that controlled the Bradford match so well and let both teams play at SL pace.

The elbow in the face that he somehow missed was as bad as I have seen in a while, nearly caused a big fight by giving that baffling decision.

We did well to come away with 2 points playing like that. If Fev had played even remotely well they would have won comfortably.

Need to put that performance behind us and move on from it. We need to improve a LOT before going down to London. The sooner we get Higham back the better, we are a shadow of the team we can be when he isn't playing!

It was a shambles of a game in which both teams and officials were equally guilty of producing garbage. Fans of teams at the bottom of Super League will be sleeping peacefully tonight.

I think we've had only one Lancashire referee all season and it's the only game the penalty count has gone in our favor (Oldham away). Come the middle 8s we'll get bombarded with Yarkshire refs and get slaughtered again. It was evident when the VR blatantly on TV (Chris Kendall, Yarkshire pr!@k) give Bradford a try for being practically 2 foot offside, and then this Bradford T@@T today was no different. Apart from Leyth being poor today ,the ref was even worse ,and how long do we have to keep enduring this kind of crap officiating? Today's ref is suppose to be a SL ref.

Funny how opposing sets of fans see things differently. I thought the ref gave you the bulk of the questionable calls. There were two occasions where your man dropped the ball with a Rovers hand nowhere near it, yet you got the penalty.

There were numerous occasions when you were defending your goal line in the first half where your men were stood two yards in front of the ref in the defensive line and he seemed more than happy with it.

You appeared to be about 15 light years offside for your last try, but the ref was more than eager to award it.

You got away with far more at the ruck than we did, ref seemed happy to allow you all the time in the world to get up off our lads. Maybe it's because he was allowing for your geriatric pack not being as mobile as they once were

Can't comment on the cause of the handbags as we couldn't see it from that distance, but there must be a reason why a ref that favoured the home team all afternoon gave us the penalty.

LCTV is a great tool to reply to your biscuit talk

According to NJ, penalty count 7-1 in favour of Fev, in 2nd half.

I thought the Ref was even on good and bad calls for both sides. If the score had gone along the lines of your
expected predictions the Ref wouldn't have been mentioned.

Luckily both attacks were so poor, it's difficult to look at any big decisions that affected the score.

I'm not sure what was more baffling, how the ref missed the arm to the face, how that ended up as a Fev pen, or why they decided to take the two! Also, how the ref saw a drop out as a result of such a blatant knock on is anybody's guess.

the drop out actually turned out better for us, smiths kick caught them out.