Quote ="Durham Giant"It is a long time since i have seen that many cards brandished. the fact that 90% were to =#FF0000one team suggests it was =#FF0000one team who had a severe discipline problem rather than two teams fighting it out.'"
there was no fighting, see my earlier post.
Quote ="Durham Giant"It seems =#FF0000one team gave the ref an opportunity to constantly penalise them. that sound like it was =#FF0000one team who had a problem rather than the ref.'"
One team did obviously give the referee chance to blow his whistle silly, and that's fine, well it's not, it's something we need to work on, but the referee tried to assert his authority early on and lost the plot and kept trying to get the pea out of the whistle.
Quote ="Durham Giant"The only other explanation is that the ref was not bad but completely bent. Are you making that allegation.
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no, but you want to put words in my mouth, out of his depth, unable to cope, shockingly poor, etc. but corrupt, nah.
i was stood with a high ranking RFL employee, who was at the game to present the league leaders trophy, and he said, he's been terrible today.