Quote: Andyjc7 "Referee's have been consistently bad this year ,some of the calls are baffling to say the least. One of the issues though is the perceptions from the crowd , say in football for example , most of the decisions from the refs are handball and fouls which are usually agreed with by about 80-90% of the crowd . With rugby though there are that many types of penalty that they are pretty much all a judgement call , eg ,hands in the play the ball , not letting the player up which depending on which team you support you'll either agree or disagree. As a Salford fan , we've been on the wrong end of plenty of calls , both live and after matches but from my view Hicks was just poor , a lot of penalties given to both sides which were no worse than previous unpenalised instances which didn't help the game to flow along with the weather but with my red glasses on I saw a few high shots on my side of the pitch on Fages and BY Patterson to name 2 which went unpunished yet the touch judge couldn't get on quick enough on the seated side of the pitch even though none of the players , crowd or Hicks saw anything , like I said it's all about perception'"
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