I'm not a betting man but times may have to change on them sure odds ?

Dont agree to be fair, Hull were monstering us in the first half and we struggled to deal with them. Second half we tidied up and got at them.

Plenty of times to ping Hull but didn’t, wether poor liner calls or not he still had enough ruck messing about to pull em up but chose not to.

I thought we started the better and momentum swung when we were penalised in the 8th minute for offside...then yes, once momentum swung their way Hull were well on top...Jones and Fonua caused a lot of problems...

Can anyone say though that Hull were not offside once in the entire first half? The answer is no...I’ve no problem with us getting penalised for it but surely it has to work both ways?

Childs in a weird way to me seems to ref the games like the good cop bad cop situation maybe he gets a kick out of it, Constantly penalising a team and then when the crowd get on at him he changes the other way, they was no way hull was not offside in that first half but child choose not to penalise them and then gave them that stupid penalty before half time.

I'll be able to watch it back on trinity tv to see and more importantly you will also be able to hear chris chester in the background so we'll see what he was saying at the time.


Up The Trin

First half I thought he was embarrassingly biased with his decisions all in one direction. I hope somebody did have a word at half time but I am inclined to think he knows exactly what he's doing and he clearly enjoys it.

Exactly how I saw it....after we kept getting penalised in that first half and we were struggling to make yards, I kept watching Child at our play the ball, hoping he would ping Hull for off-side as they were on us in a flash, but not once did he even look across the line to look at the Hull players, yet he was quite happy to ping us for it !!
Like you say, it has to work both ways

Would it. E pkssible for the man in the middle to attend a question session after the game. 3 questions from each coach and the rest from the press.
Would make them a little more accountable.

You can't Polish a turd

But you can roll it in glitter

Yes you can, Manuel, They did it with that of an elephant and a lion on Mythbusters TV show some years ago.

You must watch some crap TV

I wonder if in the same session we could have the refs questioning the coaches and players, asking why they planned to slow the play down against the rules or why they decided to talk back to the ref when they know it is a penalty offence.
Works both ways. Neither is constructive.

Calm down pop tart. The coaches of both teams give press conference after the game. The officials who quie often seem to have a bigger influence in a game simply slip away. Sky even had an ex reff adding comments to a game and not only questioning some of the calls but also providing some insight with quite some difficulty with the reffs decisions.

But they don't have a bigger influence at all.
They are just more visible and they don't have anyone in the crowd biased towards them.

Don't know how you can say that - when they make [iall [/ithe decisions.

agree as soon as I heard it described on radio I said that will cost us the game

Well, as you weren't there -as usual - I'll fill you in...
He gave a penalty for a high tackle when the player was virtually on his knees when he was tackled.

but why try and run the ball in the first place

Er, to score a try perhaps.

Because Tom Johnstone had a half chance to go down the touch line. The mistake was Tom then trying to offload inside. Don't think even Hull expected that penalty to be given though.

No they don't. They make decisions on infringements.

What about the decision to pass, run, kick, tackle, time waste, hold tackler, talk back, punch etc etc. That is what influences the game.
The ref only gets involved when someone forces him to make a decision.

A high tackle is what it is, a high tackle which infers it's round the head which is presumably round the head irrespective of being virtually on his knees or not, not sure why people are nit picking here, Child knows the rules and referee's the game accordingly, there's very little leeway on his part for either side, if we know that then surely all players should know it and be aware of it, had we won all this moaning would be academic, people need to get over it and move on.

Absolutely right.
Players get to know each ref's "style" and how they are likely to ref the match and they should knw by now that Child can be extremely pedantic on certain calls.
As fans, we get extremely frustrated when the calls go against our team but, the players have to take responsibility and not give him any reason to ping us.
Having said that, based purely on stats, when you see that Child is the ref, you know that our chances of winning have reduced.

Your last sentence says it all. Why is that? Child being in charge shouldn't make any difference... But it does. Go figure