ganson's just been on SKY admitting he was wrong and apologising to Hull

Stop taking the p1ss.

As incredibly laughable and incompetent the comedy officials were to allow the Dobson try it was the 6-0 penalty count against in the second half which cost us the match - 12 sets in a half isn't enough to win a game and it wasn't down to poor completion. It is actually testament to us in a way that we only lost in the last play of the game despite the forward pass debacle. Maybe PG can use Hull KR's perfect discipline performance in which they didn't transgress the laws on a single occasion as a benchmark for discipline going forward.

Happens all the time though. refs get a bee in their bonnet about something and suddenly the whole balance of a game swings in favour of one team on the back of 2 or 3 soft penaties. Wonder if seymour's "histrionics" (Think that was the word ganson used) when dobson smacked him in the mouth piissed ganson off.

refs don't need to make incorrect decisions to influence games unfairly. Most of the time it's unequal appliance of the rules which make the difference. I remember numerous occassions yesterday where rovers markers weren't square but they weren't pinged

That's exactly right. Ganson is the Daddy of all of them when it comes to bees in bonnets and swinging games away from teams. I've said a million times on here it's not the decisions that are given that change games but the ones that are not. The second half yesterday was a prime example thereof.

Exactly right, as was your inference about Rovers' 2nd half discipline. I'm a firm believer that a nil penalty count is suspicious, no matter how good and well-disciplined the team in question is. The very nature of RL as a physically aggressive, fast and exhausting sport means that penalties offences will occur reasonably regularly. Particularly as the game goes on, so the fact that it was the second half makes it all the more questionable. We are expected to believe that as fatigue started to kick in, contrary to typical RL fare, Rovers' discipline improved. Generally, this simply does not happen.

I'd be more concerned about the six penalties we did concede, rather than the zero we were awarded. It's not as if it's exactly uncharted territory for us, we have a fairly long history of dumb play at times.

Eddie's comments about Ganson was an absolute joke, about he loves him because he is controversial

Shouldn't have been 6 against us either, though. Westerman was done for ball steals twice which were clearly no such thing. Our discipline [iis[/i sloppy and needs to improve, but it was not as bad as the penalty count last night suggested, just as Rovers' wasn't as good as it suggested.

You'll be defending Manu's ballsteal on Dobson next

Hemmings is the joke, I don't know why anyone still gets upset about him

I agree, I'm angrier about that than the actual officiating. Basically, he publically praised inept officiating as good for the game because it creates excitement and unpredictability. No, it undermines the sport at a fundamental level. If you can't manage to get your officials up to scratch you don't deserve to be a professional sport, it's a shambles of amateur standards.

No I won't, he pulled the ball out of his hands in a 2-on-1, that's a penalty. Westerman was penalised for the ball colliding with his knee as the Rovers player went to play it, FFS. That's the attacking player's responsibility to keep control of the ball. On the other he had his arm trapped by the attacker between ball and ribcage, then the penalty was played for as he removed his arm. This is creeping in a lot, along with the 'holding down the tackler and claiming interference Sam Tomkins style', and largely the referees would seem to decide based on club colours and player reputation.