Re: Inconsistencies : Thu Jun 27, 2019 7:29 am  

Seth wrote:

Kendall is just an awful ref regardless of which team you follow. Unfortunate for Leeds that he taken charge of so many games this year.

Unfortunately ( as we found) the further down the pecking order you go the worse the ref you are allocated. That isn't meant as a blame the ref comment it is just a fact. As you have said you seem to get this one an inordinate number of times, whilst Saints or Wigan will probably sick of seeing the likes of Thaler week in week out.

Re: Inconsistencies : Thu Jun 27, 2019 7:49 am  

rugbyreddog wrote:

Unfortunately ( as we found) the further down the pecking order you go the worse the ref you are allocated. That isn't meant as a blame the ref comment it is just a fact. As you have said you seem to get this one an inordinate number of times, whilst Saints or Wigan will probably sick of seeing the likes of Thaler week in week out.

The problem is though, what you are suggesting isn't the case. We get this idiot a lot because we are on sky a lot. For some reason the RFL see this idiot as the number one ref, hence the face of sky all the time. If it was what you are suggesting, then we would be getting one of the more none noticeable refs.

Re: Inconsistencies : Fri Jun 28, 2019 7:51 pm  

Just like to say, and might just be first half, but think Thaler has been excellent tonight. Just to keep it balanced.

Re: Inconsistencies : Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:26 pm  

Gotcha wrote:

Just like to say, and might just be first half, but think Thaler has been excellent tonight. Just to keep it balanced.

And then he spoils it all . How do you miss a forward pass like that.

Re: Inconsistencies : Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:50 pm  

How can Cummings defend the officials there

Re: Inconsistencies : Fri Jun 28, 2019 10:11 pm  

Cummings what a idiot, even on TV he cannot spot a forward pass , the other commentators could believe what he was saying. No wonder the refs in this sport are shocking

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: Inconsistencies : Sat Jun 29, 2019 11:52 am  

Time to bin Cummings off.

Seriously will bend over backwards to defend an obvious muck-up from the refs and adds nothing to the commentary of any value.

Re: Inconsistencies : Sat Jun 29, 2019 12:10 pm  

Seth wrote:

I agree that refs generally are focused upon too much, they need to get rid of the 'ref commentary' on sky for a start. That said, Kendall is consistently exceptionally crap regardless of who's playing and that's more an issue with any entertainment left in the game when he's done with it rather than the outcome of games.

Kendall is very poor but not the worst both child's and if you can remember Kirkpatrick were much worse as they thought the cameras were there to watch them. Childs is utterly useless

Re: Inconsistencies : Sat Jun 29, 2019 12:26 pm  

Bobtownrhino wrote:

Kendall is very poor but not the worst both child's and if you can remember Kirkpatrick were much worse as they thought the cameras were there to watch them. Childs is utterly useless

Kirkpatrick was a brilliant ref. His first year might have been poor, but after that he was the best ref around.

Re: Inconsistencies : Sat Jun 29, 2019 1:31 pm  

Gotcha wrote:

Kirkpatrick was a brilliant ref. His first year might have been poor, but after that he was the best ref around.

Interesting. I did a number of matches as a touch judge with Kirkpatrick and he was an absolute mare with us and the players absolutely despised him due to his arrogance. His maxim was “my pitch, my game, my moment”
He was part of the reason I gave up.
Best ref I ran touch for was Bill Harragan closely followed by Steve Presley and Nick Oddy neither of whom were popular with HQ because they refused to “do as they were told”