A few players will be missing the next game, the ref will have a super league game. Something is very wrong

Well the RFL are fast tracking players for future coaching roles why not fast track players for refs, players with say 3-4 years playing left in them could start with the accademy sides 16s, 18s, then reserve grade, national leagues and finally superleague. This might not be perfect in your eyes but it would certainly give a bigger pool to find 7 good officials from each week.

Spot on. Cummings has well outstayed his welcome by about 2 seasons. He has had lots of money thrown at him with full time referees etc. and has failed to increase the standard discernibly. Child is without a doubt the biggest embarrassment of Cummings' tenure. He's not a good touch judge either.

I don't have an "everything is better in Aus" mindset but in this case I would get rid of Cummings and replace him with someone qualified from down under. Things were better under McAllum and that was when things were part time. If we're going to fast track younger guys/ex players etc. then far better to do that under the wing of a controller who knows what he is doing and not a failed has been like Cummings.

Just out of interest,what are the touch judges doing all the time?

Some good points made. I'd like to see us go down the two ref system in SL eventually . I think it's worked well for the NRL . Maybe SL could even bring in a second young ref to police the 10 or play the ball area and gain experience that way rather than chucking him at the deep end.

Dont know why we bother to use touch judges they seem to do jack sh-te.