I'll echo the thoughts about Thaler, an excellent performance on Saturday, not bothered about players 'milking' penalties at the PTB, just tells them to get on with it (unless ball comes out).
Got to give credit to both teams though, especially KR, they could have easily spat dummy out like certain other teams and given Thaler an excuse to blow for penalties all the time, Leeds likewise, didn't mess about too much either.

Refs are great when you're winning aren't they? The fact thaler is touted (rightly) as the best shows how the demise in refereeing standards is echoing that of the players in super league. Refs are also barely noticeable during utter tonkings. I bet he becomes crap again should he oversee a leeds grand final loss.

Except I think you'll find - if you can be bothered to look - plenty of negative and positive comments about all referees on this board from the current season.

So in other words, you're wrong. But thanks for your contribution.

Although I support the point that Thaler's a decent enough ref I'd also add that on Saturday the players of both sides made his job fairly easy. Hull KR could easily have resorted to niggle, lying on or out-and-out illegal retribution. It's very much to their credit that they chose not to. I think there's little doubt that certain other sides would have done just that.

It was a fairly easy game to ref but he still did a good job. Other refs with bigger egos would have done a worse job with that game.

And this is what you do when you aren't I presume.