Shocking referee allows Catalan thugs to prosper : Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:30 pm  

What a weak referee we had tonight.

After watching some excellent attacking play by Wakefield in the first half we had to put up with some weak refereeing in the second half.

This allowed Catalans to slow the game down and make many dubious tackles that until the last 2 minutes went unpunished.

Feel that a complaint should be made to the RFL and I hope that we contest the sending off of Miller too.

Farcical number of penalties leading up to the sin binning of HUBY and please tell me when the rules changed to allow a man to come running in and dive on top of a man already tackled by at least 4 other men. Thuggery was allowed which at times was dangerous and threatened to bol over as the referee had lost control of the game.

It is a long time since I have seen both the referee and the visiting team booed off the field.

Re: Shocking referee allows Catalan thugs to prosper : Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:33 pm  

As I said in the match thread. Proper xxxxxxx from Catalans tonight which unfortunately we got dragged into. They couldn't complete as a rugby game.

Don't usually have a go at refs but he certainly seemed to favour the visiting side tonight.

Re: Shocking referee allows Catalan thugs to prosper : Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:39 pm  

I think its the same ref that let the Fev - Hull game get out of control.

Saying that he didn't exactly get any help from his touch judges....

Re: Shocking referee allows Catalan thugs to prosper : Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:54 pm  

Shocking! That should have been on the telly so Cummings could justify some of that dross.

Is there a 4th official?

Re: Shocking referee allows Catalan thugs to prosper : Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:55 pm  

When he sin binned Huby, he should have also sin binned Simon. That would have prevented the 2 red cards later on.

Re: Shocking referee allows Catalan thugs to prosper : Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:03 pm  

Agree with all the above comments. The referees inability to control the game along with the lack of any officiating from the linesman led to all those incidents at the end. Some Catalan players were an absolute disgrace tonight.

Re: Shocking referee allows Catalan thugs to prosper : Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:25 pm  

In the first half they were repeatedly lifting the leg of a player in the tackle to slow and possibly injure. The incident atb the end was virtually a carbon copy of the one Huby got binned for; head shot and a brawl but this time the idiot sends 2 off. In between one of the most one-sided and weak Ref displays I have seen in a long time. This is not the first time Mikalauskas has made a pigs ear of a game I have watched. He seems to have no interest in the offside or forward pass rules but managed to stop a good breakaway by Tom Johnstone for of all things an incorrect play of the ball; like they EVER are! He needs a trip back to training camp and a spell in Champ 2 after that diabolical excuse for refereeing.

Re: Shocking referee allows Catalan thugs to prosper : Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:55 pm  

It's all Scott Moore's fault

Re: Shocking referee allows Catalan thugs to prosper : Fri Sep 14, 2018 11:56 pm  

class from Miller had the last say

Re: Shocking referee allows Catalan thugs to prosper : Sat Sep 15, 2018 6:37 am  

I thought this thread was started by that Rugby League News Hound then.