Re: Referee for Sunday : Tue Jul 28, 2015 8:42 am  

Do think it's interesting that when we win there is very little ref bashing.
When we lose the ref was poor

Re: Referee for Sunday : Tue Jul 28, 2015 8:50 am  

Only difference when the ball goes dead from a penalty kick to touch or kick at goal it then is a 20 mtr drop out.

[brian2]

Re: Referee for Sunday : Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:14 am  

I thought we was very good until the last 15 minutes or so, when he suddenly started penalising us for things that had been happening all match, but i might be a biased and he might have got a water-logged brain after 2hrs in the pouring rain!

Re: Referee for Sunday : Wed Jul 29, 2015 8:38 am  

At least we are not alone in criticising referees. Nor feeling hard done by.

The Catalan Chairman has just been fined £1000 for being critical of Joe Cobb.

Re: Referee for Sunday : Thu Jul 30, 2015 6:51 pm  

Was this on a game when they lost? They never seem to have reason to complain when they win. Not suggesting anything, just saying.

Re: Referee for Sunday : Fri Jul 31, 2015 9:43 am  

Indeed it was, There was a late disputed try against the French. That was when it all kicked off.

The newly promoted Joe Cobb was he ref.

Re: Referee for Sunday : Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:46 am  

What has the fact it was a newly promoted ref got to do with it?
All I am saying is it is quite interesting that teams, and this is across the board, dont seem to complain about the ref when they win! its only when they lose!
Again we get back to the fact that one incident does not make a game, there are 80 mins each game and decisions made my everyone on the pitch inthat 80 mins.
One decision may have resulted in a try that was complained about, what about all the other things that happen in a game that can change it?
Game changers! Grand final penalty when a try was scored from a failed kick out goal from a player in an offside position! result the RFL changed where the ref stands in that situation, errors are made you learn from them

Re: Referee for Sunday : Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:50 am  

Mickey, when in SL we used to get the second rated SL refs or championship refs being groomed.

We vary rarely got the ref that got selected for the grand final or the CC final thats for sure

Re: Referee for Sunday : Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:55 am  

why do you think that is?

Re: Referee for Sunday : Fri Jul 31, 2015 11:02 am  

Pink Mickey, If you are trying to draw me into "the RFL hate London" or some other conspiracy argument you will need to be a little cuter than that.

I don't know the answer although I suspect they wanted the best matches reffed by the best refs and we weren't in many of them. The counter argument to that is that the director of refs at the time made a statement that each club will get an equal share of the refs and that wasn't true.

Please enlighten me.