Re: Huddersfield Giants statement on yesterday : Tue Apr 08, 2014 12:39 pm  

GIANT DAZ wrote: He was hardly going to say anything but was he ....would the RFL really have allowed Smith to say anything that wasn't in support of Bentham ? Have you read your local rag today guys? http://www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/news/referee-phil-bentham-say-huddersfield-6933413 Smith WOULD have referred it back like I said.

GIANT DAZ wrote: He was hardly going to say anything but was he ....would the RFL really have allowed Smith to say anything that wasn't in support of Bentham ? Have you read your local rag today guys? http://www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/news/referee-phil-bentham-say-huddersfield-6933413 Smith WOULD have referred it back like I said.

Re: Huddersfield Giants statement on yesterday : Tue Apr 08, 2014 12:47 pm  

Yes, that's what i'm referring to....he was hardly going to say.." no Phil got it wrong and i would have awarded it" was he, imagine the meltdown at Red Hall if one ref had have gone against another !!

Re: Huddersfield Giants statement on yesterday : Tue Apr 08, 2014 12:55 pm  

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/ru ... -1-6547688 Everyone can stop crying now.

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/ru ... -1-6547688 Everyone can stop crying now.

Re: Huddersfield Giants statement on yesterday : Tue Apr 08, 2014 1:00 pm  

The Yellow Giraffe wrote:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/huddersfield/drop-goal-referee-bentham-says-video-call-would-not-have-spared-huddersfield-1-6547688

Everyone can stop crying now.

Don't count on it.

Re: Huddersfield Giants statement on yesterday : Tue Apr 08, 2014 2:00 pm  

The Yellow Giraffe wrote:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/huddersfield/drop-goal-referee-bentham-says-video-call-would-not-have-spared-huddersfield-1-6547688

Everyone can stop crying now.

I would say quite the reverse mate. That whole piece reads like a poor excuse. The WHOLE or the refs review didn't disagree...well woop-de-doo! The fact that many of them obviously did, the players did and, as the piece points out, the consensus from the rugby league world did hardly justifies his 'I was right and everyone else was wrong' standpoint. As for Smith saying he would have referred it back; well he would say that, wouldn't he!

Re: Huddersfield Giants statement on yesterday : Tue Apr 08, 2014 2:09 pm  

Phuzzy wrote:

I would say quite the reverse mate. That whole piece reads like a poor excuse. The WHOLE or the refs review didn't disagree...well woop-de-doo! The fact that many of them obviously did, the players did and, as the piece points out, the consensus from the rugby league world did hardly justifies his 'I was right and everyone else was wrong' standpoint. As for Smith saying he would have referred it back; well he would say that, wouldn't he!

I wouldn't say the consensus is that it was a DG. The general consensus from the Huddersfield fans is obviously that it was a DG. Most other folk see it the more reasonable way, i.e. one angle shows it was a goal and the other angle shows that it missed.

I am yet to see any evidence that can categorically prove it was or wasn't a DG. It was therefore a 50/50 call that didn't go Huddersfield's way.

Re: Huddersfield Giants statement on yesterday : Tue Apr 08, 2014 3:24 pm  

Crackerjack wrote:

A French video ref (not at a match between two English teams) but where a French teams involved!

Would it have been OK to have an English video ref then?

Re: Huddersfield Giants statement on yesterday : Tue Apr 08, 2014 3:27 pm  

Can we also look up what 'consensus' means, please.

Re: Huddersfield Giants statement on yesterday : Tue Apr 08, 2014 5:11 pm  

again.... 'benefit of the doubt' ?

Re: Huddersfield Giants statement on yesterday : Tue Apr 08, 2014 6:34 pm  

RFL in sticking together shock