: Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:11 pm  

Mick Gledhill wrote:

:shock:

Your only try from that game from a offside call that even had Eddie and Stevo shocked.

Err, so we kicked 9 goals in that 24-22 game then?

: Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:57 pm  

Curious...the article keeps disappearing and you get "article not found" when linked to it.

: Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:48 pm  

Adeybull wrote:

Curious...the article keeps disappearing and you get "article not found" when linked to it.

The T&A seem to have removed the story, its a conspiracy I tells ya, we cant handle the truth.

[Bulliac]

: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:50 pm  

Sexual Deviant wrote:

Ever sice McCallum left the job and handed it to Spunkings, the standard of officiating has declined.

Didn`t they say we were going to get some full time professional referees who wouldn`t make quite so many mistakes? It looks like the same old lot to me, not a single new face never mind a dozen.........

: Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:13 pm  

You shouldn't believe all that you read in the press. Why do you think the article has been removed? Libel is a very serious matter.

: Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:30 pm  

ladyref wrote:

You shouldn't believe all that you read in the press. Why do you think the article has been removed? Libel is a very serious matter.

I read quotes from McNamara and Cummings. Are you saying the T&A made them up?

: Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:44 pm  

Duckman wrote:

I read quotes from McNamara and Cummings. Are you saying the T&A made them up?

The quotes were actually Steve Macs - he was relaying what Cummings apologised for.

: Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:02 pm  

Tictac wrote:

The quotes were actually Steve Macs - he was relaying what Cummings apologised for.

Not really bothered who the quotes are from, an assumption is then that the story was pulled because Cummins (at a guess or another party) thought it to be a private matter which was put into the public domain by Macca via the T&A.

Still nothing libelous, and Im glad I read and copyed it before it was pulled as I have no reason not to believe the content and it was an interesting insight with nothing libelous as far as Im aware.

: Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:46 pm  

T&A back page today wrote:

Cummings: A clarification

Rugby Football league match officials' Director Stuart Cummings has asked us to point out that he did not, as stated on the back page of yesterday's Telegraph & Argus, apologise to Bradford Bulls boss Steve McNamara for what he does admit were some wrong decisions in recent games. We apologise for the error and any embarrassment this may have caused.

So there we have it - the Scumster is the RFL's version of Gordon Brown - regardless of the screw-ups down to you or on your watch, never apologise?

Looks to me the issue was not that he admitted the wrong decisions that happened, but that he did not "apologise" for them. Always possible he "regretted" them or similar, of course, and something of the semantics got lost along the way? Be interested to learn who gave the T&A the copy, and what's happened since!

: Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:50 pm  

Adeybull wrote:

So there we have it - the Scumster is the RFL's version of Gordon Brown - regardless of the screw-ups down to you or on your watch, never apologise?

Looks to me the issue was not that he admitted the wrong decisions that happened, but that he did not "apologise" for them. Always possible he "regretted" them or similar, of course, and something of the semantics got lost along the way? Be interested to learn who gave the T&A the copy, and what's happened since!

How weird. The story must have come from somewhere. And Macca was quoted. I wonder what Cummings did say.