Quote ="bren2k"I saw that - Alibert said that he'd missed the Cas players not getting back for the drop-out and Thaler said that had he seen Paul Sykes knock on, play would have been brought back after Hock's rampage.
Interesting way to take the sting out of the situation; when the man in the middle publicly says "yep, I got it wrong," what more bile and vitriol can you chuck at the bloke? I guess the serious questions arise if the same bloke is admitting mistakes every week; at that point, his competence becomes an issue.'"
That was always the problem when Cummins used to be on Boots n All, and in general with his tenure - that he would never, ever suggest the ref had made an error, he'd always have some amazing reason why the ref had actually got the calls right no matter what
All anyone wants is for them to say "yes it was a mistake, we'll try to make it better in future"
