We had Bentham yesterday. He was pretty poor. Top bloke though. A few of the Cru fans were in fancy dress getting pics with him. He seemed to enjoy it.....

The thing that makes Bentham better than the others is the way he controls the PTB he seems to be the only 1 who knows how to reward good tackling technique, with Silverwood and Ganson in particular its as though they just count to 3 in their head and call move regardless.

Thaler is just useless and its clear no players respect Child.

Couldn't agree more.

I think Thalers fault is that he looks for the less obvious things around the PTB area. He seems to be constantly looking to penalise a ball-steal, but then misses more obvious things, like holding down/markers etc.

Child just seems to love the sound of his own whistle and doesn't let the game flow.

I meant Alibert and Bentham, Child is just a joke, he isn't fit for NL2

but refereeing is so difficult to get into, the RFL make it so complicated, and even then, you don't progress on ability, the blazer mentality kicks in.