Think perhaps the RFL have issued instructions so that they can say the 12 point deduction didn't matter we still finish in bottom 2.

Seems red for spear tackles only work one way. It's days like this when you miss the ref having to walk up to the top dressing room.

Perhaps this is how the RFL propose to help swinton? Favourable refereeing for help in survival

Got told last weeks referee was a touch rugby ref and last week was his first game officiating contact rugby. Shows what a joke the refereeing department is at the moment

Its about time clubs started to hammer the RFL about the referees performance its just not good enough. They should publish the video to the press and and question about how the RFL have no interest in player safety

One of the worst refereeing performances I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot. But how tame are we? Plenty of effort, and less errors, but we offer no penetration and no attack, no ideas at all how to make any break or any attacking moves, and the fact that we were very comfortably contained all game by a shiit team of grubs like Swinton tells you where we are, which is comfortably bottom of the pile by some distance. It takes some doing to make Swinton look reasonably good but we managed it.

If the ref performances are this bad in the championship wtf will we have to put up with next season?

Time someone accidentally on purpose flooded the ref's changing room and made them walk up and down through the crowd from pavilion.

Todays ref is a touch judge. Hes been linesman at odsal a few times. Not sure how many games he's refereed. Ive geuinely had it with the sport after today.

The refereeing department is in a mess. A.touch judge refereeing huge game like that. The campbell red was laughable if it wasn't such an injustice. It just felt he couldn't wait to send him off. Ive seen players knocked unconscious with shoulder charges to the head, players launched into railings, thuggery, grubby tatcics, absolutely zero action taken and then we get a red card for a pretty nominal penalty. Just so angry. I just feel there is an arrogance with some referees where we plead (as fans do) for blatent penalties (ie Bentley being held down after making a break) and he does the "i'll show you lot" attitude and gives a knock-on. i didn't think the game was refereed fairly or consistently.

And before anyone says, its not because we lost. I actually want us to get relegated and rebuild.

But fed up after today. Swintons antics were embarrssing. Throwing balls in players faces (again weak refereeing by Not giving penalties) swintons players taking dives like footballers,kicking balls away when we go to pick it up. Not rugby league for me.

Bottom of CH plays next to bottom. How far up the ref ladder did you expect them to look?

Main concern is how we look no better as a team now than we did 4 months ago. Surely after 4 months of full time training we should see signs of improvement in defensive and attacking structure?

Some really bizarre refereeing decisions today. Let's not use that as an excuse though. We made far too many schoolboy errors in key positions. Again, we never really looked like threatening the Swinton line.

We looked dead at the end of the game with some players falling to their knees. That image sums up our season. We've been on our knees since game one. Almost over.

Let's not make excuses, the referee was real dog s@@te, but we looked like and have for a good number of weeks now, like a side that aren't that bothered. I have said before we are not a good side, we don't have a good brand (a tarnished one now admitted) but what we have is the supporters. They are what the RFL cannot afford to lose, whether it is in the championship or SL. If there has been some aggreement between the new owners and and the RFL, the we as supporters have been sold the biggest dummy since Gareth Edwards in his prime.

So just me who thought it was a deserved red card then? Guys it was a shocker from Campbell, I said straight away that he'd walk for it and I was right.
All this moaning about the ref is just ridiculous. Spectators at the ground just get frustrated because their team is dogsh*t and were getting outplayed from minute one. So they then take their frustrations out on the ref. Every teams' fans do it.
But you could tell from the first 15 minutes of that game that we were never going to win, they were all over us right from the kick off.

Omari Caro topples backwards over a Swinton player on the ground, and some idiots near me scream bloody murder wanting a red card! It's embarrassing.

Refereeing decisions will go against you in matches, it happens. But to see stewards being forced into escorting him from the pitch is a sad sight to see and not something I want the Bulls being associated with.

I'd like some specific examples of why some of you thought the ref was so atrocious because I really didn't see that much to complain about in all honesty.

As far as our 'team' is concerned, this is easily the worst Bulls side I've ever seen. It's just a collection of individual players now at this point. There is no team. No cohesion, no communication, no set plays, no structure. We are beyond terrible.

Just let this season hurry up and be over, and we can move on to whatever the hell lies in wait for us in 2018.

I didn't go today so couldn't comment on the red card. But...



I just don't see how this is the case. Let's be honest, Toovey has been coaching the team for the majority of the season, so [iwhy [/iare we so clueless? I know we've had a lot of changes in personnel, but it has to be more than that...

Is it because both the majority of the team isn't very good (with one or two exceptions) and the coaching just isn't very good either?

I honestly just think this season has taken its toll on them all. They're done both physically and mentally, and I don't blame them for it one bit. You can see them giving their all, players all over the pitch clearly playing with injuries. Caro could barely walk out on the wing but played on through it.

It's also yet another season where we're into the mid-fourties in terms of squad numbers. You just can't go through that many different players and expect any level of cohesion to remain.

1. Shaun Robinson throwing the ball in Tongas face for no reason. Same old grubby tactics. Should have been a penalty. No, same old pathetic talking to both players.

2. Shaun Robinsons fake dive. Its cheating and he should have been binned. One of the reasons i watch RL is because that rubbish doesn't belong in our sport.

3. Ball goes dead from Swinton, we get a 20m tap and Butt boots it out of the stadium. Its a professional foul. What good is calling time off for us?

Along with the calls that go against you such as Bentley being held down after making a break and ref gives a knock-on along with Swinton dropping it in first half and ref somehow giving possession to them. Those calls can go for you or against you though.

We're utter cr@p and it doesn't matter whether we won or lost today so im not taking my frustrations of us being cr@p out on the ref.You may think Campbell's was a red but i personally didn't, i also feel they have been worse spear tackles (Toulouse at home) that have had less punishment. My frustrations as I've said is ive seen our players knocked unconscious with shoulder charges to the head, launched into barriers and nothing has been done.

My problem isnt when knock-ons go for us etc but when actions like the 3 mentioned above aren't officiated, they just make it an awful match.

Its the end of the season for me had enough. The RFL will be clapping their hand when we go down.

It was poor sportsmanship from Swinton I'll agree, but the club should have known what to expect. I wouldn't really call any of those decisions that the ref got wrong, you don't really see penalties conceded for poor sportsmanship.
The Robinson dive was stupid but why are we even giving him the chance to do it? I think the frustration just got to our guys today in the end. Probably a culmination of a few things I suppose.

We have 4 general groupings in our squad.

The first group are the players we were left with. These are the players that every other team in the championship didn't want when they could have been picked up on a free in December. They all have weaknesses which are evident to coaches, either fitness, skills or mentality.

The next are our u19's. Some great potential here but really short of experience and a few are still developing physically as well.

Then we have a few individuals we have signed during the year who bring something to the team (when not injured or banned....)

The last group are our loan players, a real mixed bag of talent & experience who can't develop consistency in our squad due to the nature of the loan system.

How on earth can any coach bring that together?

I think I'm at the stage where it seems impossible to fix. In times past I used to look at performances and improvements were obvious. The usual "we need to get a 7" or "we need to tighten up the edge defence". Now tackling, catching and passing seem like aspirations beyond the possible.

Now there isn't really a strong area which I can call adequate for us to build around. Any long term plans based around players like Bentley and home grown talent is a fallacy because no matter how many good home grown talents we can deliver I don't see it being possible to keep them long enough to impact the club.

Whilst top teams aren't required to develop talent, we become a feeder club and without funds to develop the squad it's all I can see us being.

We, the fans have been milked for all we're worth (money) this season and the club will continue to be milked too for our academy and the stadium as soon as it becomes profitable.

I see no light or redemptions, the thought of a restructure saving the club turns my stomach as we shouldn't receive special treatment, which to this point those who have seen the RFL's actions towards the bulls know we haven't been given yet.

You got told wrong.

Damn. Then he had NO excuse.

Agreed. I just want us to start in L1 next year, like we should have done this year and try and rebuild.

I think if we are all honest with ourselves this is exactly what we expected to happen when the RFL dithere just long enough to make sure we had no squad.

Yes the ref was bewildering at times and swinton played the best supporting actor role with great aplomb, but we're shot to pieces, Bentley and Sironen had good games but the number of us limping and hobbling is frightening.

Keyes playing when he shouldn't, it's debatable that Peltz should have played. So with him gone and Campbell being dealt with harshly (I'd have said 10 was sufficient), it's no wondered they ran out of steam. I am just stunned they were still giving 110% at the end. Some of 2015/16's show ponies would have sacked it off after 60 mins and gone hiding on the wing...