Just come back from Craven Park today and saw a refereeing performance in a par with Child.

Hope he never refs us based on that performance.

Remember the name C Straw

Just come back from Craven Park today and saw a refereeing performance in a par with Child.

Hope he never refs us based on that performance.

Remember the name C Straw

Twins then

Yes. Identical.

Stupid phone.

the problem with fifita and its the same with his brother here in the NRL is that they give so many pens away - that every time they are in a tackle or with the ball the ref is looking closely at what they are doing and every time it looks like something is happening it always going to be him that "supposedly " caused it.

If that player was anyone else other than fifta it would not of been a penalty.

in saying all that thought- the ref tried as hard as he could to make saints win that game it was embarrassing!!!!!!!!!

The Fifita penalty was a joke, it seems to be an option for a ref to award a penatly against a play just because he can.

I've no issue with the Fifita penalty actually - as long as it applied consistently. Its just we don't see it applied anywhere else at all.

He shouldn't be trundling forward like that after playing the ball and compromising the markers. He kept doing it after the penalty as well but got away with it.

And therein lies the problem - you will see players moving off the mark many times over the course of a weekend, but it's rarely penalised; he suddenly decided to penalise Fifita for it - and it lead directly to a try, which put Saints back in the game.

The issue with Mr Child, in my view, is that he's liable to penalising a particular player rather than an offence.

I agree with this. By the laws of the game it was a penalty all day long. The only problem is we have lack of consistency which is why I (and others) get frustrated.

The next penalty against Fifita (not "Fafita" for those who persistently spell it incorrectly) I thought was harsh. It was a tackle where Fifita retained control, it just looked unusual.

But the timing of the penalties, the number of head-high shots that Sts got away with and other little niggles throughout the game could make you suspicious its the Ref trying to get one team back into the game at the expense of impartiality. Not quite as obvious as Ganson was, but he's working on it!

Agree totally

My main gripe with Child is that he probably knows the rules too much and penalises way too often for minor technical stuff, without applying common sense and letting the game flow to any extent. Basically he spoils a lot of games and turns it into the James Child show, much to its detriment.

Oh and that he always seems to spoil our games far too often.

In a vacuum, the Fifita trundle forward should be penalty. The rough treatment of Fages is borderline but Child will always choose to penalise for borderline stuff. Fifita needs to be smarter in my opinion as he does stand out to refs and the opposition team will play on that.

James Child seems to hold a grudge longer than most women do against a certain player or a certain team.

I thought he was having an okay game until the second half, when I wondered whether his Saints-loving boss had got in his ear at half-time in the way he did with Roby, the last time (probably) we were ahead against Saints at half-time. The dubious calls seemed to go Saints way after half-time.

To be fair to him though, he could have just ruled out the Miller try. He thought it was a penalty try that would probably give us the game and he asked for it to be checked. if he hadn't have bothered, because he could see that Miller hadn't grounded it, we wouldn't have won.

I thought Ganson was no longer on the RL scene?

I also thought the Saints player should have been binned for a professional foul.