bad loser.

I don't agree with Justin or any other coach publicly having a go at the ref. Their job is hard enough anyway.

But it's obvious that refs have had a directive to be more lenient at the play the ball and this has been a gift from heaven for Nathan Brown.

Holding down, wrestling and interfering at the play the ball is the platform around which the Giants game is built this season.

Ben Thaler seems to have taken 'lenient' to a new dimension and stretched it to 'anything goes'.

I think the Giants and Nathan Brown should enjoy it while the going is good. It's only a matter of time before the RFL realises that they need to go back to promoting a quick play the ball.

Nathan Brown is fresh from Australia where slow play the balls and wrestling techniques have been in vogue for a while. Over here you would normally get penalised out of a game for that, but things seemed to have changed at least for now.

Suddenly we get another World Cup beating and the RFL decide we'll do whatever the Aussies are doing.

The Giants can play good rugby too there's no doubt about that. It'll be interesting to see how they get on later in the season when inevitably, the destructive side of their game plan is clamped down on.

Sorry i carnt stop laughing what a berk

Well done, Justin.

Change only happens when someone has the guts to challenge the decision makers.

What could also come out of this, though, is that referees will look more closely at teams who bend the rules repeatedly. This can only be good for the game.

You can bet your life that Huddersfield, in particular, will not get away with the 'flat' (forward) passes and offsides they got away with against us, when they come to play Leeds on Saturday. If they win fairly, then good look to them but there is no place in our game for the cynical stuff they came up with on Monday.

Will you stop moaning.

Cockney behave mate let Mr bobins have his 15 mins of fame

Or, he'll get fined for behaving like a spoilt child.

I'm a Rovers fan but it wasn't the ref who got outjumped for a ball on his own line to concede a try, sprint the length of the field to score from one of our kicks, drop the ball when we finally got in the opponents 20, not even make touch from a penalty, it was just a bad day at the office after fridays big game.

well if its anything like the poor reffing we had against salford! where even shaun McRae was agreeing that their match winning try was "forward"

nothing will come of it! complianing does NOWT!

would that be the same match against Salford that your fans were saying on your board you also scored from a forward pass?

I personally don't think Huddersfield did anything wrong, they slowed the play down as much as the ref let them, they played the 10 the ref let them and they passed in a manner the ref thought was acceptable. Good luck to them, they played a game that disrupted us to a maximum and won a game they deserved to win.

Thaler on the other hand should have reffed this game in a similar manner to the games he refs when on sky, he keeps a good 10, penalises laying on and listens to his linesmen. The linesmen get a raw deal, its a well known fact that the linesmen offer an opinion of offside and forward passes into the refs ear, its up to him if he does anything about it. I believe in the FC v Salford cup game the lino called the forward pass, Ian Smith decided it wasn't and let the play stand only to later admit he got it wrong... cold comfort for the FC fans.

The ear piece refs wear is in my opinion giving linesmen and in touch judges a hard deal, in the old days the lino flagged a forward or an offside, now they don't get that luxury so he may be calling everything but getting over ruled and the outcome is he looks like he's crap. The only time the ref listens is if the lino has the audacity to come on the field.

If you remember rightly last years disallowed try in the saints game on the hooter was only disallowed due to the lino standing his ground at the halfway line to call a made tackle or Thaler would have given that try, the lino was waving for ages on that and being ignored.

I'm glad Justin said what he did, maybe just maybe the RFL will look at this and agree, even if it is all done behind closed doors and never published, this would give Thaler the kick up the ar5e he needs.

I would like to see Justin request a viewing of the match video alongside Stuart Cummings so he could explain why he believes Justin was wrong to critcise the ref, or would that be too transparent.