Brian McDermott leading the whino's charge after losing again.
WTF is all that about then?

Not sure but the team warning was a strange call

Careful Meast you have a tough one tomorrow

and our game has what to do with McDermott's comments?

He clearly thought that Leeds were being watched more by the ref (and so penalised) than Cas were.

You can disagree with that if you want but it's pretty simple to understand what he meant.

Typical McDermott

I'm sure if they take Galloway out of the team they will be fine.

Childs certainly have some unusual penalties against them when Cas clearly just dropped the ball.
However, he also allowed their try after Hardaker had knocked on and disallowed a Cas try for a forward pass that looked fine.
I think he needs to look at his own players rather than blame the ref, particularly Ablett who managed to concede a penalty whilst in possession of the ball on the Cas line.
The way he phrased his comment was also very odd - he is complaining that the referee is watching the game? Isn't that what the referee is meant to do?

Spot on , in truth he should be invited to Red Hall to explain his comments

You could analyse every single decision made in that game last night and the outcome would be that he was poor for both sides.

Zak knocked on prior to a Leeds try yes, but the ball came out of Websters hands forward to him so it would have been our ball anyway.

Cas first try was preceded by an obstruction the previous play which wasnt picked up. Yet Child penalised the same thing later in the game.

There were no forward passes in the lead up to Briscoes try i thought, but Cas disallowed try wasnt forward either, if anything it went straight up in the air.

Prior to the McShane Ablett blow up Cas shouldve been penalised for laying on, wasting time after we made the break, McShane worked the niggle and Child fell for it.

Fact is Child is a poor, poor referee and my heart sinks whenever i see his name anywhere near a Leeds game.

Is he was even for both teams why do you care? Obviously he isn't going to get every single call right but it probably didn't make a difference to the outcome of the game so who cares?

I thought he said something along the lines of, "not by the referee" but by the powers that be.
Whatever or whoever it was aimed at, it did appear pretty strange to come out with that.

Child has the unerring ability to turn a good game average and an average one cr4p.

You really really don't want him reffing a game when the weather is poor. His reluctance to penalise offsides and holding down/interference can make for a very rubbish game in poor weather.

I didn't say i cared, i am asking a question on a public forum if that's ok with you?

The thing with child is in the first 10 minutes of each half he penalises everything and anything. I presume to 'stamp his authority' Then as the game continues he lets things go that he's previously penalised.
I would imagine the powers that be were watching very carefully as since "faggate" child has barely set foot at headingley!

He is easily the poorest ref in SL IMO.

He is, and i agree with Jools, he seems to go through spells where he never stops whistling and then has spells where it seems anything goes.
Still doesn't explain McDermott's strange comments though.

Child has it in for Leeds as the 9-9 penalty count demonstrates.

Did anyone notice that camera attached to his forehead?

Was its function to provide additional monitoring of Leeds?

Changing the subject slightly, why don't flops ever seem to get penalised these days?

Like: Moving off the mark, trapping in, diving, lying on, standing square...never gets officiated properly, it's anything goes at times with some refs.

Yet fairly innocent tackles get three game bans and red cards? I love this sport but it isn't half bizarre at times!

No complaints from me, he was just as dreadful for both teams.

Sorry my post was directed to the Leeds fan at the bottom of pg1 who said his heart sinks whenever Leeds get Child.

I'm no fan of Childs and as a Wakey fan, I'm more than happy to see Cas or Leeds get beaten.
As a neutral, he (McDermott) is doing what most "fans" do and only watching where his own team get done and not taking account of where the opposition are being "wronged".

Leeds may have had a couple of tough calls but, you are quite right to point out the Leeds try from a clear knock on.
Cas deserved their win (gulp) and McDermott need to work on his own team (after Mondays game though

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Mcdermott is normally pretty level headed with his comments in defeat. His comments were somewhat cryptic. I couldn't think of many instances in the game where cas were given a penalty that wasn't a penalty. There was a knock on in the 2nd half that was given as interference, that's it. Factor in the hardaker knock on and I didn't feel leeds really got the bad end of anything. But the way McDermott worded it was like he wanted to vent his disapproval of something, but wanted to hide what it actually was.

My heart sinks every time I see his name as ref at Leeds game or any of the televised games I am watching. I have no issue last night re the result he wasn't to blame he was bad both ways. I personally don't like games he refs because he ruins them as a spectacle