I agree losing Griffin in the last cup tie with St’s cost us as he was in great form up until the point he was unfortunate to snap his Achilles, hardly his fault though was it, far from it.

Not excusing Griffin for today if he has indeed given Kendal some abusive language as he should have just bitten his tongue and gone in for half tine but I can understand his frustration with Kendal. Surprised no Hull player went to pull him away either.
The speed of Kendal issuing the cards was exceptional and think he could have handled the situation much better. Kendal for me seems to have bit of the Ganson god complex about him.

If Griffin has used profanity then I hope there is proof of what was said was extreme to warrant a red card.

Kendals performance for a cup quarterfinal game was shocking.

Different ref , Different game . Kendal is gash regardless who he's reffing . Didn't see the Griffin incident (I was at the bar )but players miss games for his willingness to issue cards , Id like the RFL to do the same for Refs rather than just demote them . He's utter cack !

Close game but the Griffin incident turned the tide. He was really stupid to get into the face of the ref like he did and once he got the yellow card it should of been a case of "yes sir,sorry sir" he could of gone into the changing room and yelled all he wanted to. But instead he's come out with some abusive language that you could clearly lipread and he gave the ref very little choice.

The Fash incident was something you can see in almost every game and to my mind it's a penalty at most and i'm a Saints fan.

Amazing how all the officials missed Walmsley going in with his knees when Truey scored



Then the shoulder charge by Batchelor?

Sick of Kendall reffing when we play Saints. Said it before the game and was proved correct.

We don’t stand a chance when he is

Well if what I heard a couple of weeks ago about Kendall, it could explain some of his decisions in all the games he refs, not just ours.

I saw both of those and was baffled at the NFA.

Spill the beans

Was it that he's actually registered blind?

Can’t have any complaints today, we all know what Kendall is like, he loves the lime light in these sort of games, unfortunately we was daft enough to give him the opportunity to make it all about him. If it was an isolated incident I’d be more forgiving but it’s not the first time Griffin has been pulled up for dissent and is something that isn’t needed. Yeah he’s an awful ref, and yes I understand tensions are high. But he as a senior has to be much smarter and the bigger person for me, and ultimately swung the game in Saints’s favour.

Overall, I thought we did okay, daft mistakes (Satae offload on the 2nd tackle) didn’t help. Looks like a costly game injury/suspension wise. Be tempted to rest/rotate for the Thursday game as much as possible and then kick on from there

So glad you lost today. Thinking it’s acceptable to forearm smash a prone player.

Why do teams who are awful resort to being as dirty as possible?

19 games !!!!

From viewing it. It looks like Griffin asks Kendall what the penalty was for. Then he seems to point towards the screen, possibly suggesting that he was asking Kendall if he could have used the video ref?

Then Griffin turned and was walking away and said something to himself. He didn't direct what he said at Kendall.

A good referee would have had the people skills to deal with that situation.

We had a great, value for money, entertaining first half and then Kendsll ruined it for everyone, because despite the experience he has, these types of occasions are too high for his standard of refereeing.

I don't blame Griffin one bit. A more competent referee would have dealt with that situation by laughing at Griffin and telling him to go have a half-time cuppa.

I say Griffin did nothing that merited even a ten minutes sin bin. And I challenge Kendall, the touch judges and anyone at the RFL to prove me wrong by telling us what was said..