It certainly is! I think he got the balance about right between letting the game flow and blowing up for everything and ruining it. The yellow card the news hound reckons was a bit harsh, I only saw it live and heard the post decision chat on why he called it.
Would certainly dispute the “crap” assessment.

Bugger me dog, are we agreeing about summat

it's Sammut and he was on fire



The Yellow was deserved.......holding a player back is a professional foul


.....something Steve Ganson ignored on July 5th 2003....not that I hold a grudge or anything, but it was at about 4.15pm and the held player was Dennis Moran and the offender was Colin Best......but as I say I don't bear grudges........much!

Thought the ref was very lenient with Toronto slowing down the ruck, that was something they did quite a bit of. As for the short kick offs, I can only assume they went 10 metres and got blown back, although I thought the first one looked well short of that. I didn't pick up the professional foul that led to the yellow, but my friend next to me called it, ultimately if you're going to pull back someone in that position then you are risking a card.

agree Kelvin.

Interesting that the referee was an Australian, looks like he has come over to possibly be fast tracked into Super League maybe.

Matt has been in london for a number of years, he has reffed at home, but he has come through the Southern Rugby League Society, so no he has not come over to be fast tracked to SL.
Toronto slowed down the ptb exactly the same as we did.

6-4. IE They were penalised 6 times, us just 4.

My apologies.Just that on Premier sport coverage that i watched this afternoon they said the Australian were talking about him reffing over here so I thought he might have come over from over there.

Nah, he lives and works in london, been over here a few years now, he was the try tag development ref as well as doing RFL stuff

I recognised him and thought we'd had him previously, but thinking again he may have been watching a game last season.

He did ref one of our games last season, can’t remember which, he has been on touch judge duties quite a few times for us as well.