Full time professional refs! Amazing how inconsistent they can be between each other, each game and even each half! It's crazy it really is!! One rule book but the interpretation is so so wide

i think people are aware of the poor standards of refereeing at the moment, CHILD! being just one poor performer.
but we cannot control what the referee does, referee's decisions might influence things, but the biggest influence is the players, if our players our doing their jobs properly then the referee's performance is usually irrelevant.

saying that though, the inconsistency in referee's at the moment is appalling, and yesterday once again proved it, wire were just as bad as we were for interference, holding down etc but only one team was penalized, but the players have to rise above it and get back to doing their jobs right.

matty russell warringtons full back had a cracking game... think he will be a future star they have a good one ... really impressed me in the world cup too

Brearly I agree re russell . He can become one of the best full backs in the league.

Child isn't a bad referee in the logical sense, he tends to see more than most, he's such a stickler for the rules though that he just can't let it flow.

He looks like he's going to break through on every drive he takes in, for a back he's as strong as an ox, really exciting player.

He still needs to learn the link up side and when to chime in the line, he can slow the sliding attack down by being in the wrong position but he is only 20 so i can't be critical on that, he'll pick that up with experience.

But going back to him being only 20 and pushing props off like they're butterflies, imagine what he'll be like in his mid to late twenties strength-wise.

interesting stats from sunday in that all 3 of our props ( crabtree,kopczak,kaufusi) made less metres combined than broughton did!! and chris hill alone made only 15 or so metres less than all our props, hill also had 23 carries ,our 3 props-27 between them!
only catalans and wakefield made less metres as a team than we did this week.
only 2 players ( the 2 wingers) made more than 100 metres!

pretty shocking stats for a team aiming to win major silverware and a big indication as to where we are struggling.

not got a problem with childs not his fault were taking short cuts or not fighting to get of the floor like warrington were. That's the reason jerry gets so many penalties he fights to get a quick play the ball our forwards need to learn of him instead of just laying there. Anderson needs to start proving he's not all talk he said people would play based on form he's not dropped any one except for Murphy which was harsh he'd be in my team every week. I also don't agree with players just walking straight back into the team they should earn the right by playing for batley you could tell Lunt wasn't fit and with him and only using 16 players we were always gonna tire in the 2nd half.

so far this season, only jerry has made more than 700 metres ( 794) next best is crabtree (669)

kopczak has made a mere 385 metres in 65 carries,average 5.92 metres gained per carry
crabtree has made 669 metres in 109 carries, an average of 6.14 metres gained per carry
kaufusi has made 437 metres in 60 carries,an average of 7.28 metres gained per carry.

no surprise that jodie,jerry,joe,murph and leroy are the best average gain per carry, not sure how that compares to other clubs.

Saint - we can't make batley take players! Why should a good player lose his place because we want one of ours to have a warm up game?!They may not want to pay their wage for them either!!!
Connor should have played in place of Wardle and Johnson shouldn't have been warming up the bench for the 80- neither should our next best prop have been loaned out to the club who's fans sent death threats the way of our chairman- poor decisions by our coaching staff there.

That's the whole point of dual registration isn't it? if on his day the best hooker in the league cant get a game in a championship team that's been struggling for players we have a massive problem. As I said on a previous thread think it was a mistake to loan mullally out still think we're a prop light.

we didnt complete our sets, goes a long way to not making yards as we dont have the ball.