: Fri May 01, 2009 2:37 pm  

Short Backward Square wrote:

A lot of those penalties could've been avoided by simply talking to the players.

And telling Harris to shut his fat gob otherwise he'd be off. I'm not sure which one was the ref!

: Fri May 01, 2009 2:44 pm  

manxviking wrote:

How? The player was being moved backwards until his team mates came in. No, sorry - there's a reasonable point that Barker may have off-loaded before he heard the call, but other than that Child's decision was technically correct, as were most of his decisions.

For the Barker incident he did shout held almost at the same time as Barker offloaded - however, he wasnt inconsistant with that ruling - you can clearly hear him saying the tackle is completed when another player adds weight to the tackle. This happend on a number of occasions and he didnt call held straight away - very very inconsistant. Also he let Fev chip away at him all night. A bit like Bentham used to do - didnt have the bottle to do anything about it.

: Fri May 01, 2009 2:56 pm  

billyfax wrote:

I watched the game again once i got home and to be honest most of the decisions were right. It seemed completely different watching it live in the stadium.

Apart from the Harris try which was dodgy to say the least and came from Hicks, Childs got most of his calls right. I can't believe i'm saying that after being there but he was.

There were a few fifty fifty calls but that was it really.

The one thing i thought was that Fev were allowed to slow us down more then we were allowed to slow them down. It just seems everyne is allowed to lie on in the tackle against us.

I agree with you. I have watched the full game now and when you are not wrapped up in the emotion (and the considerable noise of the Fev crowd) and I agree i dont think he did as bad as I thought he did last night. There were a few silly calls, which could have gone either way, but they even themselves out.

The only really really bad call was Harris' try, but Childs cant be blamed for that one.

Lets just put it to bed and go for 14 out of 14 next week, again in the Wakefield postcode area.

: Fri May 01, 2009 4:42 pm  

billyfax wrote:

Moving tackled player
(a) Where opponents do not make a tackle effective in the quickest possible manner but attempt to push, pull or carry the player in possession, it is permissible for colleagues of the tackled player to lend their weight in order to avoid losing ground. Immediately this happens the referee should call “Held”.
(b) Where the tackled player is held in an upright position, the ball shall not be played before the referee indicates that the tackle has been effected.

So in that case the ref decided that the Halifax players joined and then called held. At which point Barker passed the ball. Tough call but was probably right.

So in the Barker case he should have called held almost imediatley because it can be clearly seen that Penky is adding weight to the tackle.

Later on in the game Tamghart gets tackled by 3 Fev players and the ref can clearly be heard to shout held at least twice before the Fev players drop him to the ground. Penalty forthcoming? Not a chance.

: Fri May 01, 2009 6:50 pm  

but still i was lost what rubbish he was deciding

: Fri May 01, 2009 6:51 pm  

i was lost what rubbish he was deciding

: Sat May 02, 2009 12:33 pm  

toastymcb wrote:

According to a Sky Sports camera man he saved you 4 points by not going to the video ref in the first half.

Is the sky sports cameraman a qualified official or are Sky reffing the games as well ?

: Sat May 02, 2009 1:11 pm  

Child is TJ for Catalans v Leeds match sun and Hicks is TJ for Wigan v Saints today.Will be interesting to see if the ref goes to video ref cos he not sure and his TJ not giving a try if their decisions get overruled