top 13 refs in terms of matches officiated. ant their stats



Intresting reading



Referee G YC YC/G RC RC/G Total Pts

Ian Smith 253 64 0.25 9 0.04 73 82

Steve Ganson 248 102 0.41 15 0.06 117 132

Richard Silverwood 239 68 0.28 9 0.04 77 86

Karl Kirkpatrick 163 28 0.17 2 0.01 30 32

Phil Bentham 140 40 0.29 5 0.04 45 50

Ashley Klein 139 59 0.42 11 0.08 70 81

Ben Thaler 118 36 0.31 2 0.02 38 40

Russell Smith 117 52 0.44 1 0.01 53 54

Robert Connolly 102 17 0.17 0 0.00 17 17

Ronnie Laughton 74 32 0.43 1 0.01 33 34

Stuart Cummings 60 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0

Thierry Alibert 56 6 0.11 0 0.00 6 6

James Child 35 12 0.34 4 0.11 16 20



Key

G - Games Refereed

YC - Yellow Cards, YC/G Yellow Cards Per Game

RC - Red Cards, RC/G Red Cards Per Game

Total - Total Number Of Cards

Pts - Total Points, 1 for a YC, 2 for a RC





Something intresting, Stuart cummings never gave a yellow or red card in 60 games.

And?

As Any of them ever been pushed or shoved Paulo di Canio style eh..?

it shows things intresting,



for example. we moan about refs, and for example, we would of prefered ganson for wembley (when the ref was announced, we all said we'd prefer ganson for the big match for control) but he has been the harshest ref in superleague, but yet ehen we have alibert he has only handed out 6 yellows in his superleague career. and yet we all complain that he is crap.



Seemss that we prefer stop start too free flowing games.

Bit of a difference between 56 SL games, and 248 don't you think? Of course Ganson would have handed out more dismissals.

bad choice of refs,

I bet you passed your English GCSE.



Your argument seems to be that the best referee is the one that misses the most infringments. I think the reason most like Ganson is that he is the most consistant, makes it clear why he made the decisions he has, and is not afraid to admit when he makes a mistake. Big difference between that and somebody running around aimlessly, with a whistle in his mouth, not watching the game, or having any idea how the play is developing, so he invariably ends up getting in the way. Often making decisions that are so incomprehensible that fans laugh rather than getting anoyed. I have said before that I think they have an incredibly difficult job, and full respect to them. I for one do not jump down their throughts at every wrong decission they make. I just don't think you should do a difficult and important job if you are crap at it.

so maybe taking mr ganson as the yard stick of where superleague standard should be. who is at that standard.

I think the standard has been quite good this year. This may be because we have been winning though.

even when we have lost, do you believe the ref's were good in them games.



It is intresting as i can go to the other forums, the refs this, the refs that. and not positive comments from fans...

Only loss when i thought the ref was not very good was hull kr away ( i did go the match, i aint the st helens fan who rang bbc manchester to moan about the ref even though he never went the game)

Sack the stats over the season... its the inconsistency in each game that gets to me.