Agree it's starting to become a genuine threat. I hear so many people who are becoming disillusioned with the game as a whole because of the officiating, and if that ends up being the reason for any walking away from the game then I don't see how you'd ever get them back.

The whole officiating set up needs a complete root and branch review....yet again. There's been no improvement at all since Cummings and the refs have gone fulltime. The play the ball area is a mess and killing the game as a spectator sport like it did in the NRL a couple of years ago.

It's a real worry. It used to be that your heart would sink when you got certain referees. Now about the only one where my heart doesn't sink is Bentham...and he's crocked!! (Any news on when he may be back by the way?) Thaler, Child, Silverwood, and now Hicks and Roby all seem shockingly inadequate. It comes to something when Ganson comes near the top of your preferences.

The refs are ruining the game at the moment. the standard of officialating (sp) is at an all time low. What with the muppets on Sky and the refs it's driving me for one away from the game. I fed up of games being decided by incorrect refereeing decisions even when they go the the Video offical they still call it wrong. Forward passes are consistently ignored and why you can go to the Video for an offside but not for a forward pass is beyond me. Yes some are unclear so give the benefit to the attacking side but so many a obviously forward it brings the whole game into disrepute.
The solutions is to go to Australia and recruit 6 top referees. Yes they will require a big salary but if we don't do something to improve the situation the game is dead.

And really I dont go to gmes to have a good laugh my love of the game is to important but the Airlie Bird taking the mick out of the numpty ref was the funniest thing I have seen for ages

Comedy gold

Please name one

How about our game with Rovers at MM?

Not just our games I watch the Sky games and the standard of the officials are well below par

How was that match decided by the referee?

Even allowing for the missed forward pass, we were still 14 points up with 10 to go. That match was decided by an inability to tackle one of the slowest wingers in Superleague

It was decided by Ganson, if he sees the forward pass the slowest winger in Superleague scores a consolation try.

Leeds v Bradford, Millenium Stadium, 2007.

Cummins was one of the worst refs, no wonder the current officials are so poor.

Laughed my head off today at Hicks, awful performance.

Why do you stick up for ref's. they can change a game they can keep you on the back foot by penalizing you.This guy today kept Salford in the game,If he hadn't gone off Salford would have got a penalty when they lost the ball at the end.He penalized Hull 3 times and the Salford players lost the ball.You are not the only one that know the rules.lot of supports that go to the game are well up on the rules and know what they are talking about

They useds to say "if you pay peanuts you get monkeys". Thing is the RL aren't paying peanuts now but it's the same monkeys !

Refereeing is b__dy difficult (I've tried it), but the level of professionalism of the referees is outstripped by that of the players and coaches. Additionally the pace of the modern game makes if very difficult for 1 man to watch everything.

I do think a sign of the times is that Aussies have gone with 2 refs. If they admit 1 man cannot do it why don't we admit it ?