Well well , it seems my Sandy haired friend Mr George Stokes will be in charge i know he upset a few on this forum the last game he reffed for us , even upset a couple who didnt even attend the game ,lets not get into Karl Harrisons sour grapes syndrome , a Refs job is hard enough , and i personally think Mr Stokes is one of our better referees , Cmon Leythers we dont need to bag the Ref for a reason for not winning .

A most pleasant gentleman who performs his work with an amazing talent - rarely wrong and always professional (Do you think he reads this forum??)

I think Thomasson is the best ref we get but then Georgey boy comes in second.

Some of them are just not up to it (altough Childs got promoted so what do I know!!!).

Think he reffed last seasons game at Mount Pleasant if I recall it was a Thursday night and due to traffic problems the game kicked off at 8-15pm.

Dont forget to mention we won too

Best ref in the championship in my opinion.

Him and Thomason are better than some of the muppets like Roby,Hicks et al.

Barty i never said there was anything wrong with Sandy hair , obviously you have never seen or met me ?As my hair was very Red at one time , though now it is much thinner on top .

He and Ian Smith (Video ref) were involved in a real 'cock up' when Sheffield scored their first try at Leigh a couple of weeks ago in the TV game. Stokes awarded Sheffield a penalty on our line, they took a very quick tap and Stokes went 'upstairs' for a decision on the grounding. Stokes assured Smith that he was happy with the quick penalty take. Why then would Stokes say 'woh woh woh' to the Sheffield player and actually tried to pull him back. If the Sheffield player had been a horse he would have stopped immediately. Smith's explanation was puzzling, he admitted he couldnt tell whether it was a try or not. Whatever - Sheffield were hammered in the end. Mr.Stokes prefers to be described as 'strawberry blonde' rather than a redhead by the way.

Here i am praising Mr Stokes before the game but i feel her had a shocker today , let Batley get away with to many high shots , and then was very harsh sin binning Littler , it may sound like sour grapes , but i felt he murdered us in penalties .

Mr Stokes seemed to give you plenty of cheap yardage in the first half ,admitted you played well in the second half , but Gardner bombed a certain try , and i felt his other try was not offside , given these 2 incidents againt you maybe the result could have been different , as for Littler how did he seem edgy ?

26 20 strong wind in our favour 15 mins to go playing downhill who would you have backed ?

Not the ref who lost us the game. Just a bad day.

Well we will have to get over it. One or two bad decisions by the lads cost us today not the ref.

Frank in the first half he gave them to many penalities , you didnt see them , because you where wandering round like a lost soul , watch the game , though i agree a couple of our lads had off days , as ive said roll on Thursday , Charlie will be at POR , to cheer the lads on .