I was sat right behind the Hull KR bench and to be fair the match commisioner (not the ref's assistant) went over to the physio who was caught in the Wigan attacking line and had a quiet word.

You must sit near me then!

Yes thats what i ment, a fresh set for Wigan, game should of been stopped anyway.

What !!!!!!!

They may as well have had 14 men in the first half

If you're being picky about spelling etc, I think you'll find that "What" is a question, and should have been followed by a question mark, rather than an exclamation mark.

Back to the water carrier and the ref though, I thought it was shocking that Smith didn't do anything when the ball hit him. With the way Smith was reffing though it was typical. His "10 metres" was about 4 metres shorter when we were attacking rather than defending. And he had the nerve to keep penalising us for offside!

Not to the extent that cuckoo in the orange top did last night. Can't believe Smith let him get away with it

I can see were you are all coming from, and i agree with you, but do you not think the ref let play continue because you were on a roll at the time, just a thought.

Yeah, we were on a roll until that idiot got in the way. That's the point.

Fair enough see what you mean, but would it not have been better for KR if he stopped play and gave a scrum then they could get their line organised.

ruling would have been had KR got the ball , it would have been a penalty to wigan.
ref decided there was no advantage to KR and waved play on.

imo the ball didnt get to the intended reciever, but was deflected to a dummy runner, therefore it should have been penalty to wigan for obstruction imo.

ref should have blown up anyway and gone to the bench and given the guy a yellow card, and the coaching staff a bolloxing. Didnt they start to give out yellow cards a couple of seasons back for that sort of thing..ie..too much coming on???

it needs clearing up what/when they can goto the pitch to give out water/insrtructions

The rules are already in place, they just need enforcing.

Which would need a ref with far more about him than Ian Smith.

The stupid thing is that Ian Smith explained the rule on Radio Manchester last Thursday.

Try listen again here.
rlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00694sf/Rugby_League_Extra_11_02_2010/rl

We've noticed it at both Hull matches. The Saints lad was never off the pitch last week and nearly as bad with the Giants last Friday.