Thoughts on his performance tonight?

I only saw the 1st half and the last 15 due to an untimely trip to KFC

but from what I saw he looks a very strong ref and did little wrong. He was always spot on in his positioning and looked a hell of a lot better than the majority of refs over here.

In the time I watched him the only thing I could disagree with was Bridge's ball rip in the last minute of the first that gave Catalan the penalty that resulted in a try as IMO Bridge had the ball before he shouted held.

I think after the Ganson Show against Wakefield I’ll never complain about a referee again. Other than that I think Robinson was consistent and didn’t step a foot too wrong for my opinion. It was terrible what Westwood did but at least he was consistent when Mogg came up with that high tackle long afterwards.

I think after two penalties the refs should bring both captains together meaning the next offence is a sinbin. I believe this will stop most silly plays whilst the fitness levels are up. However its ok to cut a bit of slack at the end of the game if it’s a game in the bag IMO!

Unless he wakes up it could be a blood bath next week.

Typical Aussie ref, if it's below the temple it's fair dinkum.

Too many hands on, messing about at the play the ball that you wouldn't expect to see in SL.

how many high tackles did he let go?

and he's already adapted to the spineless barsteward attitude of the current mob in not bimning anyone for constant penalites.

I thought he had a shocker. Both Westwood and Mogg should have been sent off. Westwoods was just short of ABH ffs

Mogg?

He didnt swing, he just reached out as he was stepped. It was just a careless tackle not wreckless. I agree Westwood should have been sent off though but you see them put on report all the time.

Didn't see the match, what was the Westwood incident?

Jumped into a takle with a swinging arm and connected with Dane Carlaws nose/forehead. Carlaw was out before he hit the ground.

Did you see where the Warrington defenders feet were when defending near their line? Briers in particular was 2-3 feet infront of the try line. You have Bentham operating zero tolerance and now this guy allowing both feet over the try line at almost every play. Can we please have some bloody consistancy.
As for the PTB, I think he did fairly well. He could have penalised Warrington at every tackle and we would have had no game at all. I've never seen such p!$$1ing about with hands pushing the tackled player constantly after the tackel was complete. Poor coaching, poor execution. Warrington are rubbish.

I know it's a contact sport but swinging lazy arms at head height should be strongly discouraged. I thought the fullback was lucky to escape without injury. If a few more of those got reds then players might actually switch heir brains on before they do stuff like that.

Thats it though, he didnt swing and if the player hadnt have changed direction and ducked down slightly then Moggs hit would have been to the chest. Thats the kind of thing you have to look at. Whereas Westwood jumped and made contact wath the top half of the head with a swinging arm and should have been dispatched.

Sounds nasty, any news on Carlaw and was Benny put on report?

Think Carlaw's alright. It was like the Bailey incident the night before where the stretcher had to come on and the game was delayed for a period of time and yes, Westwood went on report. At least 3 I would say.

I agree there is no comparisson with what the Missing Link did, but I watched it again this morning and Mogg is airborne, his hand makes first (and very robust) contact with Rileys' face, and he isn't really ducking. There is only one outcome to flailing an arm at head height at an advancing player - he's not going to make any kind of tackle other than an illeagal one. I know where you are coming from, but we see this at the start of every season - it's head hunting time until Richie Mathers finally does soembody and gets a red.

They should really punish him and make him sign a contract extension.

It was up there with Edwards Vs Clyde at Wembley ....

iv have said before, i would like to see 10mins in the bin for tackles like moggs, and still red for those like westwood

i think we would see tackle technique improve massively

It was put on report but that is irrelevant anyway as that incident was always going to get referred after the Monday Video Panel review in any case. I expect Fakir will be looked at as well and that didn't even merit a penalty from the NRL's third best official.

Completely agree smokey when the ref lets things like that go he's in danger of the match boiling over and someone getting seriously hurt.
I've no qualms with the video been reviewed during the match and red card indication coming up on screen.

Just so long as the referee on the field is in charge of the ultimate decision and isn't that already the situation we have now anyway.

Robinson could have (maybe he did and he would have in the NRL) asked for the incident to be reviewed and then taken the advice of whoever off-field he is in communication with before putting the incident on report?

I thought he was poor. Too many high tackles not punished properly.

Inconsistent!