Quote: mickyb1234 "Must have been watching a different game to me re the reefing of the ball, in fact I think we got pinged a couple of times for that exact thing so he certainly was not getting conned .
Thing with dubious knock on calls, he is bloke 5mtrs away generally we are at least 50
Think the officials got it pretty right today.
You are right about Paul cook he ran the show in the second half that and the big fella on dual registration!! Seems a bit of an odd rule this dual regards thing, think am only jealous coz we ain't got any.
from our lot, thought ray nasser stood out, some good solid defence in first half Oscar Thomas in particular, wes n looked pretty solid.
let's see how we go as sheffield'"
I'm sorry but let's get this right, he was awful. Awful in the first half, worse in the second - but it didn't matter so much in the first half as we were battering them. For example he'd have chalked off our second try had the Touchie not stuck to his guns. The messing around at the ruck was particularly badly policed - not saying worse for either side btw - but Donnie certainly pushed this to the limit in the second half, especially as our composure went. To be honest I thought the ref got caught up with the excitement of a Donnie comeback in the second haf and just stopped giving a series too obvious calls (the second effort on Mathers when he was already up and playing the ball, not being given for example. He just made the get up and play it motion and the next tackle it was reefed out and a knock on given!).
There's no question we lost our way badly, really badly but a couple of relieving penalities would surely have quelled the Doncater spirit I'm sure and they should have come our way, no excuses. We are however going to have to get wise to the tricks of some of the part-time sides to slow things up, and perhaps most worrying was that we certainly didn't look fitter than them in the last 20 minutes. We need to finish games off better in this league and accept that the standard of refereeing, while p*** poor in SL, is many times worse in this league - we'll need to be better at Rugby basically and yesterday should be a spur to us getting wise sooner rather than later.
