Re: Ref : Tue Apr 23, 2019 8:16 am  

The rot truly set in under Stuart Cummings. He was an awful ref in his day, then an awful Director of Referees, and now a truly dispiriting commentator. And somehow the RFL followed his tenure with the appointment of Steve Ganson, who spent his life show pony-ing around the grounds.

Re: Ref : Tue Apr 23, 2019 8:35 am  

nadera78 wrote:

And somehow the RFL followed his tenure with the appointment of Steve Ganson, who spent his life show pony-ing around the grounds.

This could be part of the problem, the good ref is the one you don't notice but Ganson doesn't seem likely to train those.

Re: Ref : Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:43 pm  

northernbloke wrote:

Well have you ever seen a ref knock on? Or one be offside! Just a thought!

Stupid post that is not what the ref is on the pitch for. I have seen a ref make many, many many mistakes.

Re: Ref : Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:46 pm  

Deadcowboys1 wrote:

Where are the modern day Billy Thompsons, Fred Lindops, Russel Smiths, Karl Kirkpatricks or John Holdsworths?

Under Cummings & now Ganson things are getting worse.

Would not want Kirkpatrick back.

Re: Ref : Tue Apr 23, 2019 9:07 pm  

northernbloke wrote:

Just asking, lots of shouting from touch line for a red! For what? Ref has to penalise the offence not the outcome.
By the way our try came because he played advantage from a late tackle!

So it would seem that after a number of high/late tackles, you could determine the Ref had no control of the game. Just saying.

Re: Ref : Wed Apr 24, 2019 4:54 pm  

To be fair, I think London deserved a point from that game at Huddersfield because of the effort put in over the 80 minutes. But I wouldn`t blame the ref for that action at full time, as both the ref and the in-goal judge were both right on top of the action. Also Huddersfield hooker Leeming swears he got the ball down when the ref said held-up.
That was a new ref to me, hadn`t seen him before, made the odd cock-up but no worse than some of the dross around.
Best of luck against Salford.

Re: Ref : Wed Apr 24, 2019 6:25 pm  

Scott Mikalauskas is our man in the middle for Saturday. Ummmm