"Play to the whistle" is coached into 5 year-olds. That is: play to a whistle actually being blown. If we had players watching the ref put the whistle to his mouth, then they weren't doing their job. The only reason a player should look to the ref is to check he's onside at a PtB. anything else is amateurish.

I thought it was a penalty, if Washbrook was really going to try to challenge for the ball he would of jumped, not just run straight into the player.

That was my view of the incident too.



anything else and all a player has to do is run at the receiver with his arms open and claim he was challenging

Watch the replay, Washbrook is in the air (not as high as Ashe, but still in the air). Also watch Washbrooks eyes throughout the chase he is looking at the ball, so therefore was competing for the thing he was watching.

the truth of the matter is this..you were 18 nill up against a weakened saints team
you shouldv'e blown us out of sight.....instead of whinging was it or wasn't it a penalty.

It would be.

Awful decision.

Don't be coming on here talking sense rigsby.

Look again. Washbrook IS in the air. In fact he gets closer to catching the ball than the Saints player ho jumps above him.

Thought I'd seen it right, Cod'ead always as been a known apologist for officials even when they are blatantly wrong. That is the problem with our game, if officials are crap other officials (or ex officials) defend them blindly. Lets face it, all of this would have had less discussions if the idiots at the RFL didn't invite controversy by giving a Saints fan a St Helens game to referee.

I thought in the first half you were going to put the game beyond us,your offloads in the tackle were killing us but then we got a sniff and scored a try and thats all Saints need to get some confidence.As for the ref well first of all i agree that refs shouldnt be allowed to ref thier hometown team.There were some 50/50 calls the Washbrook one being one of them it certainly divided the comentary team.The Foster knock on however was the right call Foster is bringing the ball into his body,theres no seperation between him and the ball and its then knocked on by a Hull player.

Good entertaining game hower and for you to get 5 points from the Easter period is a good return for you.Good luck for the rest of the season.

Whether Ganson was crap or not should not have mattered in the slightest: he still made far fewer mistakes than the players we had on the pitch.



But let's take the easy way out and blame the ref for poor decision making by professional athletes and their coach.

I was just about to post something similar!

He went to claim the ball for me and shouldn't have been a penalty but fair play to saints they played well in the 2nd half. We're our own worst enemies sometimes and take some dumb options under pressure.