They guess things, that's what's wrong with refs.

They give penalties for not playing the ball correctly against players who are clearly being pushed and pulled.

And when a ball shoots out of a tackle at a zillion miles an hour, that's automatically because they have dropped it. Is the acceleration due to gravity that high...that it would propel a ball to that speed in the space of 2 or 3 feet??

They don't look down the line for offside, because they daren't.

Etc etc

I used to leave games when I thought we had given up.....I often leave games now because I feel the ref has interfered at a critical time in a good, even match and tipped the balance and spoiled the game. I usually only do this when it goes against the Dons though

But I have watched games on telly and thought exactly the same....that the ref has stuck his oar in with a couple of crap decisions and robbed one of the sides of the game. So what was going to be a thrilling finish is all over with 20 minutes left.

So players get frustrated and the situation gets worse for them.

The ref yesterday obviously had a neck problem as his head would not turn right to see the York players stood two yards in front of him.

What else do you expect from the referees when the man in charge of them is Stuart Cummins who in my opinion was one of the worst ever officals to referee the game remember the Dons away game at Featherstone in the Big League in the 1990's there was no way Mr Cummins was going to let the Dons win that game John Sheridan used to call him "Twister Cummins"

A spokesperson from the RFL said....
'Let's have a bit of respect here, that's Mister Twister to you.'

Geoff i remember that game well, Cummings dished the cards to the Dons that day didn't he.

Every time we got back in front he either sent one of our players off or sin binned them I think he was working with instructions from the RL that day no way did they want us avoiding relegation as Super League was on its way

does anyone know why we made changes to the side that won the last game we played?
i was always told not to change a winning side or the other one if its not broke why try and fix it?

Lack of availability owing to other commitments, lack of training owing to work commitments, injuries etc, I should imagine.
I'm sure Miller would love to field his strongest side every game, but he can't.

In my opinion too.



Remember it, I still have nightmares over it!

Some referees are down right poor, that went beyond that but then it hasn't done him any harm.

The RFL need to get a grip of their officials,i have boots older than the combined age of the three we had against York , the ref was the worst we have had all season,some young numpty that has never played the game nodoubt,and what about the pretty young lady flagwaver whom we have had at least four times this year, and has only used the flag once to pull Tommy for pressuring the ankle ,complete waste of space

York calling us Dirty Donny, well after video evidence by the disciplinary panel no charge for any Donny player but Benson charged see link below: So then York who were the dirtiest team on the day www.therfl.co.uk/about/disciplin ... hp?id=2072

York calling us Dirty Donny, well after video evidence by the disciplinary panel no charge for any Donny player but Benson charged see link below: So then York who were the dirtiest team on the day www.therfl.co.uk/about/disciplin ... hp?id=2072

Update ...


Mr Roby who officiated this game in a manner much to the displeasure of most of the away support has just passed his exams at


... wait for it ...


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Unbelievable!

Is that him doing the Hunslet game?
First Class Honours in Philosophy.

We'll have to be philosophical about it then.