I thought he was really poor but maybe if I watched the game on tv I might see someof the decisions.
It's not a good sign when both sets of supporters say he was bad and the winning coach has a go when he really doesn't need to.

I watched the sin-binning on the Super league clip and I think that is really harsh. None of the Wakefield players were moaning about it and actually reacted when he blew his whistle thinking it was against them again.

Regardless of the total number, there were times when you got penalty after penalty to just walk you up the field when you were struggling. It really hurt us and Hicks was clearly wrong on some but equally, we needed to tidy our play so he didn't have the opportunity.

Well judging from the comments about both teams, it appears you got the referee you both deserved.

Hicks seemed to penalise us for some baffling decisions then decided to even it up in the 2nd half. He was poor for both teams but then again it was 2 poor teams playing.

That's about right. Wakey were poor. We were worse. Hicks was a car crash from start to finish.



Straight penalty counts can be very misleading. Penalties late in the count are often very damaging. The 'evening up' type penalties are inevitably on the zero / 1st tackle (often in quick succession) & aren't such an advantage.

Accept it, everyone hates rovers, opposition fans, the RFL and the refs

Well, not quite everyone.
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Thankfully, we treat our guests with good grace, as well as letting them walk off with the points.

Rugby league fan in "my team is e but let's blame the ref" shocker ....

Hull FC fan in "not having a clue what he's talking about" shocker

Hick is SL's poorest referee, he has been for a while and never seems to improve. Thaler was bad but has improved himself as time has gone by, he is now a very competent official. Hick is the one I think 'please not him' when they announce the officials.

Well we've got him tonight. So if we lose its his fault and if we win he's had a belter.

I don't get the animosity against Hicks. Admittedly he was bad on Sunday but for both teams but If you look at our win ratio with him as the Ref, it is better than with any other referee.

... historically I bet he's officiated a higher percentage of the 'lower profile games' for us. Which means the winnable games in general.
Whatever the actual stats suggest, I still don't think he's a particular competent referee yet.

It was our fault we lost, my post was about Hick as a ref.

It's academic now who got the worst from that bag of sh!!!t Hicks, lets hope he does not spoil the game tonight, mind you if you lose won't that be Radfords fault?

thought hicks was terrible last night then watched sky today and he didn"t have a bad game (i think emotion has to do with it)