Not necessarily. He may favour us this time. My point is that he will have too big an influence on the result. What that result will be , we don't know yet.
Recent history suggest's that Childs favours Cas, so my money would be on a Cas win.

Favours us? You must be joking. He hasn't been biased in the games he's done for us, just trigger happy with the whistle. We're as annoyed he's reffing our game as a fan of any side would be.

Also, are you saying that with any other ref in charge, that you'd win?

As far as I am aware Cas have won every game that has had Child in charge. At least the last two against us + the Hull game. How can he favour you any more? Send off the opposing 13 before the kick off?

With any other ref we would still be at the mercy of the guy's interpretation but, generally, he would control the game as we/you/every one else on the planet would expect.
On current form you would probably win, but through skill and ability rather than through the inept performance of a clossett Cas fan.

So you ARE saying we could put the Cas High U14s out and still win, because the ref will see to it!

I refer the honorable gentleman to the answer I gave before.



The End.

I doubt it....

I think the majority of Wakey fans (like the majority of other clubs fans) just believe that he is incompetent rather than biased.

Personally I don't believe that he is biased in favour of any team, the fact that Cas have won the games he has reffed them in is probably just coincidence.
I suspect that any as an earlier poster said any team that loses with this guy in the middle is likely to blame him because he is so prominent. In reality if you stood back and looked at each decison he made you would find fault with decisions for both sides not just your own.

His problem is that he does not have the ability to use a bit of common sense, like some of the more experienced refs do, and he applies the rules (as he understands them) without any personal experience of how the game is played.


I have no doubt I will walk away from the game on Friday night cursing him (win or lose) but I also feel that if he gets whistle happy around the play-the-ball then it helps rather than hinders us.

This is what worries me, because it stops us playing and drags us into a scrap. It's not what the game's about and on far too many occasions in the last couple of seasons have I seen us 'punished' for trying to play good, expansive rugby.

Just to make your argument look even more ridiculous I feel that I must point out something I had to before the game against Wakey last season.

Prior to that Wakefield had won 7 games that season with Child in charge, yes 7.

We're currently on 3 so shut up.

Add to that the fact that we have only lost once this season and I think you have wrapped this one up.

I must admit to being a trifle surprised as to Child's current style of reffing games.

I remember one of his 1st games at SL level involved Cas and I thought he did a good job not being overniggly, unlike a lot of his contemporaries of the time. It makes you wonder what has happened to make him change tack so radically!

That said I thought he did ok in the televised game at Salford last week.

7!!!!

I doubt we won 7 games at all last season!


I also doubt that Child had reffed 7 of our games.
I'll get some researching done and I'll be back later.

Told ya...

Quote ="Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo"7!!!! I doubt we won 7 games at all last season! I also doubt that Child had reffed 7 of our games. I'll get some researching done and I'll be back later. '" Not last season, but doing a brief search I can find 6 over 2 seasons. He must Wakey SO much. Waky wins are absolutely NAILED ON when he's in town. www.slstats.org/2009/3/15/Wakefi ... agons.html www.slstats.org/2009/7/31/Salfor ... dcats.html www.slstats.org/2009/8/16/Wakefi ... aders.html www.slstats.org/2010/2/14/Wakefi ... hinos.html www.slstats.org/2010/3/12/Hull+K ... dcats.html www.slstats.org/2010/4/2/Wakefie ... igers.html

Quote ="Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo"7!!!! I doubt we won 7 games at all last season! I also doubt that Child had reffed 7 of our games. I'll get some researching done and I'll be back later. '" Not last season, but doing a brief search I can find 6 over 2 seasons. He must Wakey SO much. Waky wins are absolutely NAILED ON when he's in town. www.slstats.org/2009/3/15/Wakefi ... agons.html www.slstats.org/2009/7/31/Salfor ... dcats.html www.slstats.org/2009/8/16/Wakefi ... aders.html www.slstats.org/2010/2/14/Wakefi ... hinos.html www.slstats.org/2010/3/12/Hull+K ... dcats.html www.slstats.org/2010/4/2/Wakefie ... igers.html

Wow.

There's some ballcocks being spoken about on this thread.

Well it is the Cas board

and on a thread about Wakefield too...

Make sure you do your research before making bold statements like that

My research is always thorough!




Have a good evening.

Fergie time

Sorry, say what???

To give up a 20 point lead is unforgivable, i hope the players are hurting like hell because we as supporters sure are.

No doubt it would be easier to blame the ref but our players have to remember a game of rugby league lasts for 80 mins

Uh oh, I think I'm going to take cover for a few weeks.

Entirely our fault we lost, congrats to Wakey for the win. Never gave up, and we have to learn that the game isn't over until the final hooter.

Enjoy the forum Wakey fans, I fear there's little point coming on here until after the next round.

I agree entirely, Childs had a decent game, especially by his standards. 100% the fault of the Cas players (and Adrian Vowles

)

Embarrassing, how can you let a 20 point lead slip against the worst team in the league, at home? What a time to choke that was: Feisal, Vowlsey, Chance to go top, Watene trophy, big crowd.....stuff it up big time



Totally inexcusable, and what's even worse is listening in on the radio now that idiot Kear thinks they were the better team



That's a game lost by Cas, not won by Wakefield.

Now to wait for the hordes of Wakefield morons to come trolling