Has anyone got any links to these stats? The SL page is naff.

Also, I can’t remember the last time Child refereed a final.

Blaming the ref, no matter what proportion of games we lose, is just a case of avoiding the fact that the responsibility of performance of the team, remains with the team.

Quote: Willzay "Has anyone got any links to these stats? The SL page is naff.'" www.rugbyleagueproject.org/teams ... mmary.html Fill yer boots. Not sure if there's a phone friendly version. You can do custom searches but better on a computer.

Quote: Willzay "Has anyone got any links to these stats? The SL page is naff.'" www.rugbyleagueproject.org/teams ... mmary.html Fill yer boots. Not sure if there's a phone friendly version. You can do custom searches but better on a computer.

So 6 wins from the last 30 then unless I’m reading it wrong. And it covers Agar’s, Webster’s, Smith’s and Chester’s tenures. So different coaching staff, different playing personnel.

And over that time, we lost a large proportion of the games.
Just people trying to make a conspiracy out of nothing.

Challenge Cup
Taken from RFL site

WAKEFIELD TRINITY V BRADFORD BULLS
Friday 13th March
The Mobile Rocket Stadium | KO : 19:45

M Com P. Crashley
Time Keeper D. Mitchel

Seems like RFL not bothering with match officials this week.

I reckon then that from the reaction from the crowd last Friday, and at Cas ,at some of Child's decisions, that there must be about 2000 supporters as daft as I am. Sacred. You stick with your thoughts and I'll stick with mine. I presume that you believe that the waving for another six tackles after the ball rebound, and the penalty on the half-time hooter, must either be the correct decision or an error. If they were the latter then one should ask whether he is fit to referee Super League rugby matches.

Not 5 out of every 6 though eh? We can skirt around the issue as much as you like but the guy doesn't like us. IMHO the bloke has a vendetta against us.

There is a very big difference between making an error(s) and deliberately favouring one side, which is what you and some others are suggesting. Yes he probably got some things wrong, no it wasn't done deliberatlely.

Yes, but his "errors" seem to be usually to our detriment, not the oppositions. Let's call it stalemate and agree to differ eh,Sacred.

Humans are remarkably susceptible to confirmation bias.
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So, back to the refs.
If you see that James Child is the ref and you 'know' he is a bad ref with a grudge against Wakefield you will be looking out for every perceived error he makes which disadvantages Wakefield. You probably won't notice the errors he makes in their favour.

So, what can we do? If we studied a Wakefield game/games reffed by James Child and went through every decision or non-decision minute-by-minute, preferably by multiple independent people, then compared results, maybe we could start to make a judgement.

Pick a game, let's do it

Whilst respecting your right to have an opinion, do you have any evidence to support that opinion?

24 out of 30 [i2015 league season Played 23 won 3 Lost 20 (i.e. 6 out of 7)

If you're randomly selecting from form like that, you can work out the probabilities.
3 green balls twenty red balls in a bag?

So using your evidence then we really need to have James child refereeing is every week ? I ve taken a more representative data segment interviewing 50 of my rugby watching mates, this was done over a short period of time across a number of clubs , guess what 90 percent agreed he was crap !