He was in a no win situation because Wigan were hammering his beloved team out of sight. Even under the glare of the TV cameras he found it impossible to hide his bin dippin biased ways. He is a former member of the Saints Supporters Club reffing a Wigan - Saints game. Along with your image rights fiasco, salary cap dodging ways, is this what you refer to as 'the level playing field' ?

Prize tool? Retard? lol - been on the Top Deck Lager'n'Lime, have we tonight?

He was part of tonights match, and did his best - as per usual - to make a name for himself in the public eye. Displayed his usual bias, and was severely disappointed it didn't help his beloved Stains being outclassed by their underdog neighbours tonight, simple as.

Maybe it was just something Bitter that passed your lips tonight, eh?

Edit: Oh, and you submit 43 posts in 8 1/2 years and you felt THAT one was worthwhile? I thought your own board would be more fun tonight, rather than visiting this one and commenting on it! Shouldn't you be screaming Potter out or something?

I though I’d never see the day where Ganson is refereeing Saints v Wigan. This is nothing but a false flag operation by the St Helens club, Steve Ganson and the RFL for saints to lose to Wigan whilst Ganson is the ref because if Saints lose to Wigan whilst they hometown ref is the official for that game it will make him perfect to ref the Leeds v St Helens game at Old Trafford at the future.

If Steve Ganson is the ref at Old Trafford and its Leeds v Saints I shall never watch super league again. I’ll just get my kicks from the national league or grass roots. But NEVER the NRL.

I thought he didn't have too bad a game tonight (by his usual standards ) but the Feka "try" which wasn't even looked at and Long's Dan Marino impression were ridiculous.

Hope someone throws a pint over him tonight

sky +, fantastic tool

Thought Ganson had a fair game


And not just because we won

Give him some credit for a job well done, like it or not the game needs focal point characters and he is certainly one of those.. For those who criticize the ref week in and week out ask yourself the question.

If your knowledge of the game is so great why don't you pass the exams? Officiate any match at any level and have everyone who is watching the game knowing the rules better the game better than yourself.

Could you be be sure you would make no errors?

Mmm I thought not...!

although the ref wasn't overly controversial tonight i thought it was pathetic with Lockers try when Tim Smith kicks the ball you can clearly hear Ganson shout "Onside" then as the pass from Roberts to Gleeson you hear "Play On" Lockers scores then the moron goes to the screen to check for offside why say onside then play on if all he is gonna do is check with the video ref anyway either give the try or don't say onside and play on.

If it had have been a Saints try, just to be controversial for a moment, would you have been happy for the ref to use the video ref in this instance for whatever reason?

I also thought he had a reasonable game, he let it flow as much as possible.

After watching the replays again, Feka did seem to ground the ball late on the second half. He should have headed to the screen.

First Wigan try when kick goes up by smith he shouts ALL ON. Wigan score but he sends it upstairs for video ref?????

Ganson had a decent game. Nothing to complain about really.

More remarkable is his ability to run around the pitch carrying all that blubber!

In fairness though he is one of the fittest refs around and the game speed benefits from this.


I would point to the two "quick restarts" late on in the game as evidence of this.

PMSL.... Great comment...

I answered that in the first part of my post.

"When I watched that at full speed, I thought feka was easily held up, and as it happened he JUST scraped the grass with the ball. "