How can you let a referee from Batley ref a game for Batley...it stinks especially with his one sided performance...About time rugby league sorted this out..Tha amount of penalties heinvented ib second half was unbelievable. never mind forwar pass for one try and ball that went dead for their last try....touch judge stood his ground for both but the batley player...sorry ref overuled both...unbelievable

Many of our players had a worse game than the referee.

Was stood with a load of Batley fans and they weren't too pleased with his decisions in the second half either.

pains me to write it but Batley took their chances and deserved the win.

Fax showed character in 2nd half but the shockingly bad 1st 40 performance was just too bad.

what was the logic in not going for goal on the stroke of half time with buzzer having sounded? says it all really!

I am afraid, I agree with both of you. A combination of a biased referee and un-smart play gives a game that's tough to win. We obviously lost that game when we were still in Spain for the first 40 mins, and the extremely dubious penalty on 79 mind. Even karl, on radio Leeds, wasn't really sure about it.

Even with a poor ref we should have still been able to pull out a win. But I agree, don't want to see him back any time soon. Some of the calls he was making were shocking.

What was the last penalty for?

It seemed to me that Blackie was harshly targeted, he got a kicking on the ground by their no 5 and a few cheep digs from Moore. (No change there then).

I thought that was a strange option as by kicking to touch you only had one tackle. We should have gone for goal

We lost - end of.
Too many poor decsions to go in to .

BIASED REFEREE????

What a bunch of whingers. You don't like losing that's your trouble. The ref gave Batley nothing in the second half. His bad decisions started the roll that nearly gave you the game. Bad ref, yes....Biased no. Get over yourself and accept you were beaten by a team who wanted it more.
The bloke at the end who was nearly blowing a fuse shouting at the ref when he came off the field summed it up for me.

Read above. Original (fairly new) poster criticised the ref and one other agreed with him. That does not constitute a bunch. We were pathetic in the first half and Batley played well, In the second half we finally put it together and were the better team. In the end Batley just won, end of.

What cheap digs ? He was only on the field 15 mins........dont talk about cheap digs you have the master at that Bully Boy Barlow......the stereotypical school bully. every skirmish he goes running in looking for the little fellas (half backs & Wingers are his speciality) the minute Manning squared up to him then he himself.......what a big man he is.

The first half try to batley which was a million miles forward (which was discussed by thevref and TJ) effectively Won you the game. We just don't like losing in an unfair manner.

Now you get me going, I wasn't going to post much whilst still full of emotions.

Batleys second and third tries were blatantly forward passes, one the touch judge even stood his ground on, only to be overruled by Mr Batley. I have never seen so many forward passes go un penalized.

Then there is the 5.9 dive on 79 minutes, a penalty? Come on.... even Karl, talking on radio Leeds wasn't convinced.

I firmly believe that we threw the game away in the first 40 minutes when Batley outplayed us and out enthused us, but Calland summed it up by saying we were dreadful for 40 minutes and we had a half where every 50/50 decision went against us.

Fair play to Batley, they stuck in there and begged for a penalty at the end, which was gifted to them, but they were only in that position due to poor decision making on behalf of Halifax.

It's in the record books. Onwards and upwards to whitehaven.

your joking, that second try he gave was never a try, the player dropped in ball in the tackle which was clear to see, the linesman stood back as he knew it was not a try, but you the ref over ruled him,thing is he was the wrong side of him to see the so called grounding,i was stood in that corner and seen it plain as day,as for that penalty what a joke with all the stuff he had let go all day,

Odd. I must have missed the numerous decisions that went your way during the game, including the sending-off and sin-binning for our players. The next time you 'win' a game due to a contentious decisions (and believe me you'll benefit from a contentious decision at some stage of the season), I take it you'll be keeping your cake hole shut as opposed to crowing from the roof tops. I guess you won't like winning 'unfairly' either.
As for you coach, his comments on the radio after the game were arrogant and disrespectful. To label another teams tactics (I must be going blind, what was this 'wrestling' rubbish he was droning on about?) as 'cheating' is a disgrace.

you remembered your password now morley dog

Anyway, this thread is rendered pretty pointless given the fact that Jamie Leahy is a Dewsbury lad, and has supported Dewsbury since being a young kid. Admirable attempt to clutch at straws though.

Did any of your Tries come from dubious descisions? Worrincey offside from the kick maybe?
Did you get away with things that should have been penalised? Barlow third man in the tackle with the forearm?
No thought not!
If you go on the Bulldogs message board you will see that a fair few Batley fans are mad at the biassed ref and Touch Judge.

I was 14 and the Bulldogs Stats man when I learned that descisions go both ways and not to blame a ref for a bad performance!
If you watch the game closely and take off your blinkers you might enjoy it more.

Stop Whining leave that to Black,Barlow and Penky



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I wasn't at the game but a) i'm sure the ref called in our favour a bit and b) they even themselves out over a season I'm sure.

Blaming the ref after our first proper test just because we didn't win is a bit classless to be honest.

I blame Batley for turning up....

We were end of!

On balance the best side on the day won. Hopefully we will learn from some basic errors and move on. Being a RL ref is not easy. Leahy is still one of the best, although he dropped a few clangers.

You weren't there but your sure??

We didn't deserve anything playing 40 mins like we did that first half. Decisions bad by ref or not we simply were awful and never looked interested for the whole 1st half! We now have a job to do midweek in a long trip to Cumbria!! Why don't we learn from past mistakes??

Believe me I enjoy games, even when we loose, that's why I turn up week after week and have done for lots of years, an I am the first to give praise where its due. I think the first 40 was ALL Batley and I have already said. But when a game us lost due to poor, poor referring decision, don't call it whinging just because its pointed out. I am big enough to accept the defeat no matter how it comes but that doesn't preclude me talking about it and giving my opinion.

I have already said "fair play" to Batley for hanging in to the end. They had to be there to get the penalty.