How **** is he?

As a new fan to rugby league I am very confused. I last saw Silverwood in the world club championship where the interpretations of holding down was totally different to what it is today in the Hull derby. Can someone please explain the difference? Thanks in advance.

At least he knows which game is being played.

Sean Long: "But it's Rugby League"
Silverwood: "I know what game it is"

its only a knock on if you score a try from the move that follows it

never heard of a sinbin Silverwood? Killed the game with his whistle.

Clint Newton is a dirty tvvat.

no advantage? wtf?

He's thick as 2 planks. I don't often have a go at refs but Silverwood's display has been shocking.

TBF i thought he did ok today and controlled the game quite well , i think he also did well to try and stamp out Hull KR's tactic of hitting/shoving players off the ball which i'm sure i saw about 7 differnet occasions.
He missed one or two things but all ref's do in every game and considering there was lots of off the ball stuff as well as technical stuff i thought he wasn't too bad!.

Hey! You know the rules. We have to find something wrong and complain about it, with any entertaining game.

oops, sorry then

it was a game strewn with errors, but to be honest i found it more entertaining as a result.

if all teams and ref's played 'perfect' RL it'd be a bit dull to be honest.

I do think that a 2nd ref to police the ruck like in Aus is needed though

Just about my take on it too

I thought the handling of Lauaki was shocking. He missed all of the tactics used to wind him up such as heads and elbows instead choosing to wait for the reaction and jump on that.

Apart from that it was a decent performance in a typical Derby.

I thought the ref did ok considering it looked like one of the dirtiest and niggliest games i have seen since the 1970s. Every tackle had a little bit of niggle elbows , heads fingers in the face knees from the second man ine tc and off the ball incidents going on all the time. I reckon Silverwood was just waiting for it to kick off

That was the main problem I had with him. He went into the game with a clear, pre-conceived idea that he was going to keep an eye on everything Lauaki did and that's not acceptable. His prejudice meant that he missed everything that was going on from the Rovers players to try and wind Lauaki up and he jumped on every reaction from Hame. It's stupid from Lauaki to react like that, he knows (or should do) that he'll be penalised, but he wouldn't have had to react if Silverwood had done his job and given the penalties that should've been awarded in the first place.

Spot on.

have you not seen a Hull derby before? its always a dirty, niggling game with potential to boil over into a fight!

Can somebody explain to me why Silverwood brought Hull back about 60m down the field for a penalty to us?! Where is the advantage?! He let play go on for about a minute, waited for the tackle, then brought it back and gave US a penalty?! What have I missed to justify that decision?!

Im presuming its cos it was put on report therefore you give the penalty from the infringement

If it wasnt going on report then it would have been advantage

I thought he gave a couple of wrong calls but on the whole he seemed fine to me. . Agree with the luaki comments too,rovers got away with loads of dirty stuff but then again i suppose if he only sees a punch thrown thats what he penalises.i dont think either set of players covered themselves in glory though to be honest.

Silverwood kept the game flowing whilst exerting control over some excesses

Whereas the Saints/ Pie game was ruined as a spectacle by the ref taking a starring role and failing IMHO to get a full grip early on.

We had Terry Albert in our game, and he had no idea what was going on. I'm sure he didn't even understand his own decisions half the time.

Well that's ridiculous. What advantage will Hull get from the incident being on report? Could he not have put the incident on report and played on from where the advantage finished? It's just a ridiculous decision to me and I can't get my head around it at all.