Re: Childs and Bentham : Fri Aug 18, 2017 10:09 am  

4foxsake wrote:

it's castlefords party and the officials have been chosen accordingly.

Embarrassed for you...

Did James Child swap MCB and Tupou around? Did Bentham tell our players to give away silly penalties late in the tackle count? Did any official instruct Huby to drop the ball, or Jowitt to kick out on the full or BJB to go for an intercept when a tackle would have been better, or Finn to have an off night with the boot?!

If anything, I thought Child was lenient in the ruck for both teams - and he let a couple of flare-ups play themselves out without resorting to penalties; all in all, a good performance from all the officials, and a result that was decided by the two teams involved, one of whom was significantly better than the other.

Re: Childs and Bentham : Fri Aug 18, 2017 10:35 am  

Thought the ref had a decent game, I thought he missed a couple of Cas knock ons but i also thought he misses a couple of things that we got away with.

Cas were just better than us last night as they have been most of the season, I thought we gave it a good go.

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Re: Childs and Bentham : Fri Aug 18, 2017 10:37 am  

Best refereeing performance from Child I have seen.
He's been notoriously bad for us in the past but he was pretty much spot on with everything last night.

Beaten fairly and squarely by the better side.

Re: Childs and Bentham : Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:15 am  

bren2k wrote:

Embarrassed for you...

Did James Child swap MCB and Tupou around? Did Bentham tell our players to give away silly penalties late in the tackle count? Did any official instruct Huby to drop the ball, or Jowitt to kick out on the full or BJB to go for an intercept when a tackle would have been better, or Finn to have an off night with the boot?!

If anything, I thought Child was lenient in the ruck for both teams - and he let a couple of flare-ups play themselves out without resorting to penalties; all in all, a good performance from all the officials, and a result that was decided by the two teams involved, one of whom was significantly better than the other.

Did he penalise Castleford for the blatant swinging arm, did he even consider a sin bin for a shoulder charge off the ball, did he notice that on every 5th tackle play cas stood a prop in front of Gayle who would move to obstruct anyone trying to pressure the kick. Don't be embarrassed for me, I was there last night, Cas best team all year, deserved their win and the trophy, but the referee had an undue influence on the game which led to the high score line.

Re: Childs and Bentham : Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:30 am  

4foxsake wrote:

but the referee had an undue influence on the game which led to the high score line.

What a load of utter nonsense.

Re: Childs and Bentham : Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:44 am  

Got to agree that the officials had no bearing on the result at all.

Child even sent up the McMeeken try as a "No Try" and Bentham had about 4 looks when it was clearly a try from the first image.

Re: Childs and Bentham : Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:45 am  

I thought Childs had a good game and I'm struggling to think of any incident where I thought he had made a ridiculous decision. We were beaten by ourselves and the better team. You cannot afford to make the mistakes we made against the best team in the League and hope to win.

Now if only BJB had intercepted that pass....

Re: Childs and Bentham : Fri Aug 18, 2017 12:27 pm  

4foxsake wrote:

the referee had an undue influence on the game which led to the high score line.

I could not disagree more.

Re: Childs and Bentham : Fri Aug 18, 2017 12:32 pm  

Officials were fine last night. Let a bit of handbags go which added to the game IMO

Re: Childs and Bentham : Fri Aug 18, 2017 1:12 pm  

Do any shoulder charges after the ball is gone get punished with a yellow? The flip side is he did well to spot it after the ball had gone. Not sure which blatant swinging arm you are alluding to but, for that reason I cannot comment.

The high score line was about 80% due to the ludicrous decision to put MCB against Webster. The other 20% was cas being able to exploit that absolutely glaring weakness in an otherwise fairly decent Wakefield side on the night.

Thought child was barely noticeable last night. Which is what we all want from any referee.

Personally I'd much rather he let little things go both ways than being overly finicky.

Often I feel that referees make decisions that they don't need to make, thus making their already difficult job harder.

For example, a little bit of handbags and some referees are dying to find out who started it, so they can penalise a team/player. For me, things like that don't need penalising. It's irrelevant to the game. Just take control of the situation, nip it in the bud, warn both captains of their teams conduct and get on with the bloody game.

Couple of pushes and shoves last night but it's a big boys sport, and child did well to just let it play out and not turn it into a drama.