From where I was sitting in the stadium (with my green and gold bifocals on admittedly) I believe there was some doubt that the Kiwi would have definately scored, hence my biased reason for believing 'No try'



but hey ho.



Schitt happens I guess.

Well lets see what happens tomorrow night. My tickets for the match turned up yesterday and I've got some rather nice seats in the LV (or West) Stand.

The Kiwis deserved to win the game...



However, the correct ruling should have been a penalty to New Zealand, Monaghan to the sin bin.



No sin bin and a penalty try... pretty big stuff up

My god.



There now appears to be TWO of us talking sense on RLFans



Where will it all end

It won't. It'll just go on forever.

Ganson is a neutral ref, anyway for this match. What's more preposterous is Eng v Aus next week. As I understand it the fault lies with the ARL who won't accept 'substandard' Kiwi or French refs. Thierry Alibert does OK in SL so I don't see why he didn't get the game.

Alibert is out of his depth in SL. He certainly shouldn't be doing Internationals.

Ganson is just as bad though.

Nah. I thought Ganson did ok last night. I think he was stamping his authority on the game to begin with as both teams know we are more lax over here with our solitary (naff) ref in the middle. He showed early on he wasn't taking any crap and things got better after a while as he let the game flow. I thought he looked a bit more like his old self and he was definitely the best ref to be in charge of that game, especially when the biff began.



Cracking game of rugby league and to think, that was just a warm up match. The final will be a belter.

Absolutely.



Ganson tried his best to screw up last nights game.



Hopefully Tim Sheens will have a word in the right places about him and advise them that Ganson would be better off just reffing SL games

He's head and shoulders above Alibert.

Doesnt this highlight why Rugby League struggles to establish itself on the world stage? Football and union are played to the same set of rules throughout the world. Until the International Board takes control of the organisation of the game as a whole we will continue to struggle to be accepted by the media.

Good post

Hope the highlighted words help you understand the reason why we will not accept any referee in games involving us