I have now seen 6 penalties this round on TV and today at BV for dummy half passes being thrown at the defender on the ground on purpose. I know its a penalty in the rules, but it is now getting that even when it is blatently obvious that the pass was thrown directly at te man the refs are still giving penalties. The oficials do have a power of discresion that if a incident of un sprting behaviour takes place a penalty can be awarded. I hate this tactic, most do, its pathetic, it won Hull the game today, we even got one from it, but its poor, and if allowed to continue, coaches will actually coach players to do it and get penalties.

I thought that Ganson was in favour of the 'unsporting conduct' last week, this week he aint. No wonder we can't get consistency from referees.

Voila!

He kicked more than one penalty from a deliberate play the ball onto a defender didn't he

And neither were as blatant as the Josh Jones example, which seems to have been the catalyst for this contrary announcement - that directly contradicts Ganson's initial support for Childs' decision.

I'm glad they've provided clarity - and I hope the execution of it is handled properly and consistently; and bigger picture, get out of the habit of defending a referee decision as a default position - supporters would respect the process more, if they'd been honest and said "yes, that was against the spirit of the game and Mr Child should have penalised it."