Can I ask how you can give a penalty for not standing square when the defending team are all stood on the try line?

Child spoilt what could have been an entertaining game, Wigan were by far better than us without a doubt and deserved the win

Quite simply the worst referee in Superleague by some considerable distance. If you ever want a game of rugby league ruining give this guy the whistle.

Not taking anything away from Wigan but they didn't need all the help they got from this poor excuse of a referee. Child should be given a nice flag to keep perminently because he isn't up being a Superleague ref.

He totally ruined the game for everyone before half time with his safe approach of pedantically over penalising the team expected to lose. Made me laugh how he gave us some very late decisions to make the count look a little less embarrassing for him.

Lets hope we don't get 'tight pants' again this year.

It's the club you should be blaming, not Childs. With the rumours of Sale moving in, the board are aware that some Sale fans have been attending Salford matches to check out the stadium. They decided at a board meeting last week that they would target these fans and try to entice them to become regulars. So, in order to appeal to those Sale fans, they had a word with the referee before Friday's match and asked him to make it a stop-start affair, littered with inexplicable penalties.

Yet another Salford c0ck up.

Before this game I was of the opinion the referee had improved over the years and was one of the fittest referees who positioned himself correctly to give the correct decision.How wrong could I have been ?
More knowledgeable and qualified people than me have gone completely out of character and lost their self-control over this individual and [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/apr/04/rfl-hull-richard-agar-refereeperhaps there was something remaining from this Hull game[/url as I cannot find any link to favouring Wigan;just a number of coaches complaining.

Credit has to be paid to Phil Veivers for his restraint and also our players who once again kept their composure
and didn't even lower themselves to a fit of pique and throwing the ball away as demonstrated by Hock.

I see he is at it again..... Wonder if the game follows the same pattern Mr Smith will have choice words about Mr Childs, yet against little old Salford nothing gets mentioned.


Edit. All 3 tries upto now on the back of penalty's, Kills the game for me, was 6 nill to Widnes then on the count, Wire get pen and go up other end and score.