TBF most people agree, i certainly couldn't believe he didn't even get a yellow.

He is, he spouts most of his sh*te in the football thread on other sports

Before Club Call occurs could you inform us if these self same people higher up in the club are still employed by the club or if they have been replaced as a result

m.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/24035351 Seems he'll simply toss a coin IF he's forced to make/attend clubcall. What a ledge! (bet he doesn't though)

m.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/24035351 Seems he'll simply toss a coin IF he's forced to make/attend clubcall. What a ledge! (bet he doesn't though)

They'll pick leeds as the lowest ranked team if both us and hudds win next week.

Guaranteed.

I think exactly the opposite, we were comprehensively outplayed & most games of RL are 13 players against 13 players & as such, you have to beat what is in front of your irrespective & we failed to do that and lost. The nature of the final loss conveniently helps to brush over the fact that the standard of ref'ing in the game was very poor & not up to lower league standard, never mind SL play-off standard. Child didn't & generally doesn't have the wherewithal to think through the ramifications of his decisions. This was probably as clear a red card offence as they come, but he doesn't appear to have thought about what happens if he doesn't at least sin-bin Briers for what was a clear & deliberate strike to the head. What happens if another player lashes out at someone, provoked or not? He is struggling with being unable to rebuke any player with anything more than a penalty for the rest of the match because he failed to act on an offence that should have been acted on more severely. The talk in the crowd was about Child whimping out & ONLY getting out the yellow, because even a partisan crowd has enough grasp of cause & effect to understand that he had to act of deliberate blatant punching... hence the clear incredulity when he did nothing!

I'd be more worried about Ablett...running away from a little half back like a 5 year old girl. Ponce

*sighs*

He didn't run away though did he?
He just stood there expecting the ref to dish out the punishment I suspect.
He was disappointed though.

Would you have liked him to throw punches back?

He ran away like a big girls blouse. He should have decked Briers! The forwards union will disown the bif jessie after that....

What then receive a ban when it gets reviewed?
Is that what your team would have done..... had they got into the playoffs that is?

Genius. Are you denying that Ablett is a big soft lad who ran away from someone half his size? You're just a tad too easy to wind you precious types aint cha?

Erm I am not wound up nor am I a precious type.
Bailey did the same against Catalan and copped a 1 game ban.
I would imagine Briers will get the same unless he offers an EGP.
We certainly need Ablett against the Saints on Friday as I still think Saints are the dark horses of the comp.
FWIW I think had Briers not hit him from behind Ablett would have mullered him.

FWIW I think had Briers not hit him from behind Ablett would have mullered him.'"

RFL has made a mockery of a great sport..............SL is awful and the world cup will prove we are a million miles away from the Aussies/NZ when it actually counts

The fans are voting with their feet and not turning up to watch a sport that is dying on its

I am sick of all the excuse making and pandering you hear week after week from Clarke, Stevo, Eddie etc..................you are flogging a dead horse! The game is ing dying and major improvements need to be made

For starters get the simple video refereeing decisions correct and get the standard of refereeing up to scratch..............the officiating in todays game was nothing short of a farce. I am not saying Leeds would have won with 50/50 decisions but surely a refereeing performance like that needs addressing.


The one beef that all fans of RL have is that poor performance by officials is never tackled!

Yes of course he would.
Do you attend anger management classes by the way?
Anyway what you doing watching Rugby your season ended a few weeks ago.

It never ceases to amaze me how the ire is directed at the referee. Of course Child is poor, he always is.

However, what irritates me the most is the the Leeds players allowed Briers to play the rest of the game unscathed. Summed up how weak we were and how dominant they were. Look at how they fired in to Ablett. We should have been snotting Briers at every opportunity, legal or otherwise, but we just didn't have any fire in our bellies today.

That, not how predictably crap Child was, is what winds me up.

Thought Child did well today. A lot of refs would have waved the red card because they like to think the game is all about them and want to determine games themselves.

Child knows its the players on the pitch that the fans come to see so he kept it 13 vs 13 and the fact that Briers turned on a masterclass vindicated his decision to leave him on the field.

Oh, so a ref is vindicated in a decision to leave a player on the field because he is more likely to entertain the crowd if he stays on and he is a class player (which Briers clearly is)? Christ, lets hope Kirke doesn't start punching people in the back of the head when he gets tackled, as he will spend even less time on the pitch than he does now!

PS. I can't figure out if you are posting this crap because you are trying the more subtle 'I am a bit simple' troll tactic or whether you are just indeed a bit simple?

There is no logic in any of that bollox.

You are right, Child's lack of action did open up the opportunity for someone to have an effectively free-shot at him & it wasn't taken. We did lack the fire we showed against Wigan last week. I think had Briers gone, we would have still lost, albeit not by such a big margin.

I find it hard to believe we'd have beaten you without our star half-back, especially if we were reduced to 12 men for most of the match.

Regarding today's game, I just couldn't believe how little pressure we (Warrington) were under today. We all know Leeds can score from anywhere with their attacking weapons, but it felt like Leeds spent very little time near our line and it felt like Sinfield had little opportunity to put us under pressure with his kicking. I can't recall a single bomb that caused us real trouble today, which is surprising as I usually expect Sinfield to ask every question of our backs with his kicking game. Also, I generally expect Leeds to get a lot of repeat sets but it all felt very slack from them. I imagine they'll bounce back (some will argue this is the defeat they need to wake them up); however, I don't think waltzing to the GF will be as easy this year as it's been for previous seasons.

Rather obviously unlikely to be true as before today Leeds had won 8 from 16 with Child officiating and now after today it's 2 from 4 in those Leeds V Warrington games he's 'controlled' - and that includes this season's Headingley win.
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G1 has for me hit the nail on the head. Ablett's first 'hit-up' after the faux melee set the tone of what was to follow. 'Blinker' knocked on even before Warrington could get a decent shot in - and Leeds barely tried in the following set.

Just as the Leeds pack had dominated Wigan's in last week's meaningless game Warrington had done likewise to Leeds in this week's meaningless game.

Leeds would have been 10-6 up 12 vs 13. No 40/20's one try definitely not scored & the other 2 he set up probably bot scored.

Players should decide games, not officials.