What's that all about?

Spoilt the viewing experience for me. Comes across well on TV too.

Apparently the referee enjoys his own company too, but only when decisions go against them

Foooooooooooorrrrrrwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrddddddddddddddddddddddd.

Not for me, great game to watch.

Ref was officiating to an agenda, Saints for off side, Giants for head tackles. Both sets of fans were shouting cheat and as the ref was the commom denominator!!!!!!!

He kept pinging us for offside from the very start, when Huddersfield were doing the very same, it was a joke. We were probably offside so the penalties were probably correct, but they were doing the exact same thing, Gilmour and Lunt in particular were offside an awful lot but didn't get pulled up for it. It was very frustrating.

A couple of times too, he wasn't going to give the penalty and then fans (both sides) screamed and he gave it. Bentham was definatley listening to the crowd.

use the mute button then thicko.

PB's had (another) f*cking sh*t game. He's missed offisdes from us that I could see from behind the goal, played to the loudest fans (us for 65 Minutes

) and effectively given Saints the field position in the last 10 Minutes. Fair Play to Saints, they won the game, but Benthem has proved again he's a poor referee.

He was absolutely awful. His control of the play the ball is absolutely horrendous. Huddersfield were consistently infringing at the play the ball, the markers were very rarely square. Yet he was ultra harsh on Saints for exactly those things.

Does anyone know what the stats were for penalties and what they were for each half?

I agree John but unfortunately the stewards wouldn't let us go onto the pitch and ring the corrupt little bast$%ds neck. So we had to make do with pressuring him into do the right thing.

When was that shouted tonight?

Won't have been anywhere near as effective as going to the game - couldn't hear a peep out of the Saints fans.

I enjoyed the game - but the constant booing did annoy me.

What?....more than MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE?

Cant stand his reffereeing.

He often gets a roll on with the same penalty given out time after time which breaks any rythm in the game.

He always tries to even out the penalty count.

Never listens to his linesman.

That said The linesmen in SL are a joke.

i think at one point we were 6-2 up on the penalties then in the 2nd half it was 6-7 though im not sure, he did seem to be a bit eager on some things but not others, IE: doing us for high tackles but choosing not to penalise saints, however no complaints from me about the result, best (most clinical ) team won.

I'm afraid it does spoil it for me. You'd think, with all the success and recognition that goes to Saints, that the KR crowd would be a bit more magnaminous. Instead, if the opposition tackles, passes, kicks, plays the ball, looks at a Saints player, runs forward or heaven forfend has the audacity to break a tackle, they are treated to a chorus of BOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Perhaps the KR fans would prefer games just to feature 13 players, all playing for Saints.

Agreed the players are too thick to work out why they get penalised for the same offence time and time again. You just wouldn't credit would you.



Nope, that down to the thick players who wont play by the rules but are too thick to realise this cos every week the match officials penalise them for the same rule breaking and they still havn't worked it out.



Ah, so the radio mike connection no longer works then? Ah well.'"

You need to get out more petal.

If the [ihome[/i supporters pressurising a referee to give the [ihome[/i team certain decisions in the game spoils your viewing then I am absolutely amazed that you have managed to view a single game of rugby in your entire life.

It's particularly noticeable at saints with the gantry positioned where it is. The same occurs to an extent at Leeds and Warrington but at Knowsley Road The cameras and mics are actually as near as dammit in the middle of the most vociferous section of the crowd.
When the boo boys come out to play it can sound a bit like the toys are being thrown out of the pram at times, especially when they resort to booing good play by the opponents as pointed out by Asgardian13.

Happens at every ground in the country. It just sounds louder at KR because of the positioning of the mics. Every set of speccies in rugby league sounds off when they think they're getting a raw deal.

Exactly anyone would think it was only Saints that do it.

There must be a hell of a lot of Saints fans in the South Stand at Leeds tonight ...

Perhaps players should stop repeating the same offence time after time? That'd stop it.

....and if you haven't noticed how much worse it is at KR than at any other stadium in the country, flower, then you can't have been out much at all.