Gracious in defeat is clearly not a phrase that Powell is familiar with. Can't see RFL being too happy with his comments about the ref who did a good job dealing with two fired up competitive sides. Way too much talking back to ref's (from all teams) and it needs sorting. Perhaps the RFL should also point out to him that there's way too much being said by Powell about their ref's, it's getting to be a bit too regular from him but maybe coaches shouldn't be interviewed when they're feeling the heat of the moment either.

"It was a poor call - there was clearly an offside - but it was poor by Jake.

"It was the way the whole night went, a referee losing his cool completely and that's unacceptable.

"He got dropped after he refereed us in Catalans and, if I drop a player as many times as referees get dropped, I'd probably be getting rid him at the end of the year.

"There was some unacceptable stuff. I'll get fined for this but respect works both ways and players need respect in the way you speak to them.

"The way he was talking to players is unacceptable.

"I'll cop a fine for this but you need to be able to say what you think at times. I haven't complained for over a year about a referee but I'm at the end of my tether."

Castleford, on a high after comprehensive back-to-back wins over Leeds and Warrington, led 8-6 thanks to an early try from Paul McShane and winger Denny Solomona kept them in touch with two tries to extend his lead at the top of the Super League try chart to 20 but rugby union-bound winger Josh Charnley scored the second of his two tries on 54 minutes to open up an ultimately crucial 14-point lead.

Yeah but he's reffing Leeds so they're clearly getting him in practice for reffing championship quality teams for when he is dropped for crimes against Castleford.

Well anything to say ! Don't let the facts get in the way of the fiction !

I'm not sure what happened to the ref last night especially in the last 10 minutes but my first thoughts were of the Wigan match and then the ranting in this thread. I was gobsmacked by some of the decisions, thankfully the video ref saw sense