Kendal is our ref again on Monday

Can't believe I'm saying this but it would be nice to have either Child or Thaler for a change.

I’ve mentioned this before regarding a friend of mine who is a ref and a good one, who I spoke to after the game,apparently all refs are scored and got to achieve at worst a -8 , if I remember correctly, if below then they are demoted, Kendal scored we’ll below in his last game but still gets a SL gig and was as bad again. If your face fits and all that I suppose.

One or two odd decisions but I didn’t think he was that bad tbh but then I can’t rewatch games we lose so I’ll never know.

I’m usually the same Fishermanscap, but I watched it back last night after a couple of gins it’s where he got the decisions wrong that I have a problem, as tries were scored after, the penalty against Lynne was a classic amongst all classics regarding blunders.

Watching the Wigan Saints game and Childs let players in the ruck go on at least two occasions and one that was nearly as bad as Reece Lynne's. I don't have a problem with that but when inconsistency leads to tries then I do

Surely the same ref shouldn’t ref the same side two games running. Not the first time this has happened to us either

Don’t recall the ref completing at 61% not sticking in the tackle, or running like wet fish in the first half. I could be wrong mind

I thought he ran like a wet fish for the whole game to be honest....never seen anyone penalised for standing up and playing the ball in my 40+ years of watching the game !!!

You're right, of course, the ref didn't cost us the game we did.


But whilst there will always be people who will criticise refs as a default, it shouldn't undermine the ability/right to say when refs are getting process wrong and seek improvement.

Too many aspects in refereeing are below par.

And to be really clear, the game, especially the PTB, could improve drastically and immediately, if players cut the rubbish and got on with the game - coaches & players can take the pressure off refs and make the game better for all of us.

I won't hold my breath...

Ref blaming/bashing is just tiresome. I bet he didn’t make 10% of the errors that we did. However it’s symptomatic of modern society. Always looking for it to be someone else’s fault!!

Good to see Thaler wave play on when someone deliberately played the ball into prone player during the Hull derby yesterday.

This is why most fans become frustrated with referees, the interpretations of rules between different referees is huge and I’m sure majority opinion of fair minded fans is that poor referees do cost some clubs league points however good or bad a team plays that game.

The key one for me was the flop on Reynolds after the charge down. Pen more or less in front of sticks and a yellow card.

Alas it wasn't to be, we got giddy threw a pass and ended up bundled in touch.