I also think he was referring to the one on Minikin at the opposite side where he caught the ball and was tackled in the air and Kendall gave a handover.

He did knock it out but in the process of effecting the tackle - it wasn't a deliberate play at the ball. From what I recall, Hadley may have tried offloading at the time and Shenton's come in from the side and walloped it in the opposite direction when wrapping his arm around. This is where "interpretation" comes in - and the ref, to be fair, was blocked in his view too of that.

I'll have to watch back again on that incident but being a Cas fan, it's harsh to call it a knock-on but without a deliberate play then that's what it is.

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Apologies Fordy, missed that.

If I'm thinking of the right incident, Hadley did indeed intend offloading backwards, Shentons hand intentionally or not did play the ball but it went backwards, the knock on came from I think Eden, as he picked up the ball he pushed it forward a tad.

Fifita was not square at marker. It should of really been a penalty to Cas.

I thought Wakey were good value for at least a draw last night, I thought you out enthused us. We looked knackered and lacking in any real ideas in the first half.

Just watched this and Fafita is square and does get taken out. Was a penalty which would seem us playing the last 60 seconds in Cas half. Very poor and we should put a complaint in. Won't change anything but perhaps they might think twice before sending that useless tool to officiate ours games this season.

Minikin should've stayed down and rubbed is neck. Worked for Will Dagger last week.

There is a big difference though between the two games. Whilst League is fast and furious, Union has long static phases when the ref might as well have a chat with his mates as there is nothing else happening on the field.

I actually thought Kendall did ok. Yeah he made some errors but that happens every game. Thought he controlled it reasonably well and didn't get too whistle happy with ruck penalties. A couple of poor decisions in there but thats par for the course. Impossible being an RL ref need ten pairs of eyes. Linesman need to do more for me. We need to just suck it up, our errors gifted them momentum and to our credit we halted it and got our noses back in front. 100% effort but some intermittent brain farts at crucial times did us over

No he was garbage in the first half also. How many times did he speak to shenton but he never put Cas on a team warning.

I'm not overly fussed about the ref - given the speed and intensity of the game, I thought he did alright; some bad decisions, but it probably balanced out.

It's not the ref that's cost us the match, along with this match and also a few other previous close matches, we should have had the game won. Trinity seem to come up with either wrong decisions at crucial points in the match [E.G. last night not taking the 2 points for a second kickable penalty when we had just kicked a 2 pointer a couple of min's before] Not been prepared for short kick off immediately after we had gone 6 points in front late on in match. giving stupid penalties away when pressure is been applied by opposing team at crucial moments of the game.
We seem to get too overly excited, no calming influence at moments when an opposing side can get back on the front foot against us. A first class player, leader and captain who gets his message across to the other players when we are under pressure is needed. With that i think we are in a excellent position with the players we have to continue on an upward climb in the S.L and become one of the best teams in the league in future seasons.

No he wasn't. On the night I thought he had a very good game overall. Having just watched it on TV for the first time there were a few calls he got wrong with the benefit of replays. None were as embarrassing, obvious or inexcusable as the errors made by players of both sides, often very early in the tackle count. Your faux outrage is pathetic.