I can understand your frustrations from yesterday andyour comments regarding the sport does raise some good points. Obviously as a saints fan I will challenge some of your arguements regaqrding some of the decisions yesterday. However I will agree that Roby was poor and that the new crop of referees are not getting to the required that this great sport needs.

The biggest problem is inconsistency one ref will blow for something and another will let teams get away with things. Until the standards improve the sport will not move forward. There does not seem a converyor belt of younger referees being fast tracked to Super League. The Childs and Roby's of this world my be capeable linesmen but will never become "good" refs.

However you also commented of the RFL and Sky coverage. Sky need to overhaul there presenters who spout their opinions of decisions and events even though they are often wrong and why can't they just commentate while the games going on instead of arguing between themselves. Andrew Voss showed during theorld cup how a game should be commentated on.

As for the RFL do they know the best way forward for the game. There consistency of the disciplinary panel is a joke, and the promotion of the game is non existent. The world cup showed that there was a market of international competition. The pacific Islanders should be invited to tour the UK either as seperate Islands or as a S Pacific team but alas there is no leadership from the RFL. We could go on.

We will always disagree about Sundays game. Wakey did play well and for a time the game was there for the taking. Had the pass by Riley reached the winger when I think the score was 16-8 I do not think thread would have been posted. Wakey have gone through a great deal recently yet despite this you have put together a strong squad that will win more than it will lose and that in a season of relegation you will be able to breathe easily by mid season

Good luck for the rest of the season

Scary thing is its got worse since they turned "pro".

Can't really expect anything else when they let clowns like Stuart Cummings & Ian Smith be in charge of them! The only way officiating will get better is bringing in someone from outside the sport or an ex player to be in charge of officiating and then have it so officials are held responsible for the performance they put in - have a bad week? Next week you're in the Championship, give them a league table and only the top 4 qualify to be eligible for playoff games etc.

Not having neutral refs is a complete joke too.

There is a pool of seven/eight Super league referees ??? Seven fixtures each round.
Ref has poor game.
Hellllllooooooo!!!!!!

the reason I put about rules and laws is because my son and his mate did their level1 refa course last year and the bloke taking the course told them there are only guidelines.that bloke was ben thaler.i am not saying I know more than other people or anything else just what my son told me.it put him off refereeing in the future and he only refs at school for his school work.

i to had to take my refs papers when getting my coaching levels and it does make good sense. but i easily passed the level in theory that would have allowed me to referee one of the old "A" team games but its much harder when you try and do it "live" one morning a ref didn't turn up for a junior game and i was asked to officiate i said i would if both coaches agreed. boy is it different. in the theory test its a multi choice tick the box exercise and take as long as you want to make the decision. in a game its not that you havn't seen whats happened its trying to think what the rule is for what you have just seen and what your options are. if your not sure you do tend to lean towards the home team.