You talk some cr$p

are you after my job at the Tower ?

Well in that case i will stay away and keep my money to myself.

IMO overall I thought the ref wasn't as bad as some people are stating. There was a few decisions which were questionable but some of that was down to the touch judges. Thaler allowed the game to flow which made for an entertaining spectacle but at the end of the day regardless of who refereed the match we would of lost. Lets just enjoy our lads performance onwards & upwards

Thaler allowed the game to flow because it was a fast attacking free flowing game. Had he had his usuall whistle happy head on it would have been stop start. I have stated three occasion that he made bad mistakes in my opinion. Oh and they weren't in our favour.

I must admit I have seen Thaler have much worse games than this one, but that said He's still a bad un

Missed some forward passes of which one resulted in a Leeds try, in fairness it must be hard for a ref to keep up with Young Athletes at their prime going flat out and whilst trying to keep up keep looking sideways !

When Littler and Bailey started slogging it out (I thought Bailey got a little dig in before it kicked off but so what - thats what RL is lacking at times , that gets the crowd pumped up and the atmosphere rockets !) I'd have thought that try should have stood as it had zero effect on the score or the attack or defence of either team.

So a couple of errors , maybe a few more ?

I'd take that as virtually everyone else on the pitch made a few errors.

He could have blown up for a host of daft penalities but choose to keep the game moving, it actually felt like a RL game I was watching rather than some of the stop / start penalty sessions you sometimes see.

He gave a penalty to Leeds for that incident, so anything that happened after the biff was irrelevant.

Must admit he annoyed me a couple of times but so did the lines men and I reckon if that incident had been in SL the try would have stood and the players put on report ,why let the game carry on if you are just going to deny the try, he should have stopped play right away .Keeping that try would have given the game a more balanced feel to it ,which it most certainly deserved IMO .

He let the game go because he didn't see it, he was following play. It happened under the In Goal TJ's nose, he reported it to the ref; no try penalty to Leeds. Simples.

Still should not have denied the try but put them on report ,isn't that what they do now in SL ,everything goes on report

It only goes on report if the severity of the offence is in doubt, it is still a penalty. In this case there was no doubt what it was so nothing to report.

After the RFL panel viewed the incident, Littler was cited to the Disciplinary, but not Bailey. That probably suggests where the match officials felt the blame lay.



By the way, no charge has been brought as the Disciplinary body felt the DVD was 'inconclusive'. That's the benefit of the game being classed as a SL one!