cant believe what I am reading about the ref, He gave you lot a start and murdered us for 25 minutes. We were all going mad about him. He never gave us a chance in the first half and was forever relieving you of any pressure.

I have watched the game back and non of the second half decisions were controversial. just a team giving away silly pens when under pressure. we upped the tempo and you couldn't handle it.

sour grapes i think

Officiating aside it's a double contract with Turley too

Fev improved 2nd half, we needed to score a try from our own half 'kinda thing' as Fev were playing downhill, and we hardly had the ball in their half. I think (red & white tinted specs) that we were unlucky with the final scoreline, dunno if Ridyard try decision was correct, but when it was disallowed said to my mate "that's it now".
Rightly or wrongly we got caned in the penalties 2nd half, and we didn't stand a chance.
Last 15/20 minutes 1st half they spent a lot of time attacking our line, we defended brilliantly.
But after 40 minutes, Rovers looked a lot better, and if you are a Leigh fan, 'Ginger Ref' is the reason we lost.
He isn't, but the scoreline could have been a lot closer.

Also, for the Fev fans saying the ref 'caned' them in the 1st half, Premier stated that they went into half time 13 - 7 up in the penalty count, then were 7 - 2 up at one point in the 2nd half and also at one point had been awarded 8 consecutive penalties. All of which were for 'technical' offences. We were absolutely murdered tonight by the ref. Fev played the better rugby for sure, but we can't play without the ball!! We must have been knackered by 60 mins due to the non stop defending we were FORCED into doing by the clueless moron in the middle.

Disgraceful tonight from Stokes.

Anyone know what the penalty count for the whole game was?

45-3

Well I was at the game and thought both our attack and defence first half was impressive.

Re the ref he gave us penalties for 15 minutes and to me it looked like everything he gave after that was in Fev's favour. Well I am biased.

Re the obstruction and forward pass tries that we had disallowed first one looked a good try and the pass for the other one definately did not look forward to me.

I don't have the benefit of replays being at the game of course but I thought Stokes was worth 4 out of 10.

He had a bad game but even I make mistakes.

Well. Another bite of the cherry next week.

so why have you visited our forum pal ?
we'll both be in the same division for the next 2 years at least.....

Another thing that surprised me was the announced gate which mean's Fev had less than 1500 fans there.

Maybe a lot of their usual attendees watched on the telly

Just watched the game back, and after reading some of the shiiiiite on here thought i would add my bit, i have played the stupid game for 30 years all be it amateur. I had a chat to Leyther Matt in the sss house at ht and he thought the slope would do it for us. My thoughts are the ref played no part in the result, i could of refed it, rotherham fev fan could of or, bill harrigan could of, the result would of been the same. Leigh threw the kitchen sink at us 1st 20, then spent 20 mins defending, and this was the defining 20 mins it sapped your energy allowing us to run some points in last 20, the ley number 3 think it was littler was putting himself about in the opening period as were some of your forwards, shoving, cajoling, squaring up and generally having a right old go, fair play to em reminded me of a GB aussie test BUT just like in an Aussie GB test you stopped playing in the last 10 mins, were was littler no squaring up to any feker while his victim worthington was running ragged. you lost the game not because of the ref but because you didnt play to the bell

Ask Lynn for some punctuation for thi christmas box!!!

Rowley after the game said something along the lines of…
We’ve gave away an averaged of 5 penalties per game all season, the last three games we’ve had a three, a two and a three, tonight we had sixteen, <with a hint of sarcasm> we need to understand why.