Having seen last nights game and the reds win at Warrington , there's one obvious conclusion - the referees have been told to ease up on the penalties,

Before the end of may we were seeing Penalty counts on average well over 20 per game, last night at the WIllows it was 20 minutes before one was given, Cas were error free for about half an hour as Salford didnt get a pen until Brett Ferres stopped them taking a quick 20 re-start.

There was a lot of slowing down at the PTB last night which wasnt penalised -both sides , and a couple of early pens would have stopped that and it could have made for a faster and more exciting game

The message has clearly gone out - just look at the penalty counts in last weeks matches- way down, but we cant complain about whistle happy refs and then also start beefing about them not dishing them out - vicious circle im afraid

Everyone all ways blames the ref. We created enough chances to win the game and did not take them. Do you blame the ref for missed chances where will it end. Reffing is not an easy job you have to see everything and this aint possible.

I don't blame the ref at all.

I do think he was awful though, and that we probably got a slightly worse deal from him than Cas did.

No influence over the result though IMHO, just over the quality of entertainment.

One man made the difference to the result but he wasn't an official.

This decision (Thaler) worse than even any Bentham gave on Friday :- www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfU7UOPP ... r_embedded

This decision (Thaler) worse than even any Bentham gave on Friday :- www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfU7UOPP ... r_embedded

In the pre-season friendlies they were over zealous. Now they seem to be easing off. Here's an idea: why not let referees officiate the game as they see it, every week.

Turning referees into robots clearly hasn't worked.

Quote ="Early Bath"This decision (Thaler) worse than even any Bentham gave on Friday :- www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfU7UOPP ... r_embedded'" To be fair there is at least one like this every week.

Quote ="Early Bath"This decision (Thaler) worse than even any Bentham gave on Friday :- www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfU7UOPP ... r_embedded'" To be fair there is at least one like this every week.