The standard in Super League last year was not good enough and the introduction of a second ref can only improve things especially the speed at the ruck. Bentham was fortunate in that it was his turn last year as opposed to Silverwood (there are no others) in who gets the big games. The Aussies obviously watched some Wigan games he reffed and did their best to slow the game down in the final but fortunately the best team won. Would love to see the ref from the England Samoa game in Super League that game flowed.

Two refs hopefully gives each one less to do so they can therefore concentrate more on what they have to do.

It isn't an easy job and the RFL pay buttons so we can't expect the highest standards. A second ref can only help not sure how it will be funded hopefully by a cull of some of the useless administrators at Redhall and maybe a significant reduction in McNamaras salary.

I'm from Manchester and have a lot of football and boxing fan mates and there are a lot of rugby union clubs in Manchester. To my mates, when I talk about rugby, I have to remind them which code I like. I usually say "the faster, slicker version of rugby". To which I get "oh the six tackles one?" in reply.

Well, in recent years I think some of our games have been painful to watch because of all the slowing down of the ruck and my justification of our sport as the faster, slicker version was starting to get a bit of a lie.

If two refs can speed up the ruck and the game in general, I'm all for it!

As someone who plays God's own game. The idea of speeding the game up more than it already is terrifies me.

That would be quite difficult considering Stuart Cummings hasn't been employed by the RFL since April 2013.

Well since Alan Shortall is nowhere near a leading referee in the NRL, I will take this with a punch of salt. And anyway, the RFL have already said the 2 ref system does have it's merits, but they haven't decided yet and any implementation won't take place till after 2016.

At the moment, they don't have the pool of ref's to warrant a 2 ref system in Super League. You have the main SL refs like Thaler, Bentham, Hicks, Silverwood, Roby, Child......and then you have the refs on the fringes who have refereed SL games this season such as Stokes, Thomason, Leatherbarrow.

Down in the lower leagues you have referees with SL experience like Jamie Leahy and Gareth Hewer, but yet you have referees like Dave Merrick, Jamie Bloem, Joe Cobb, Peter Brooke who haven't refereed Super League. Merrick has been doing it for years. Will these guys allowed to be stepped up, or will the RFL bring over referees from Australia and fast track them over the guys that referee in the Championship and Championship 1?

How does it work in the NRL?

Is there a senior and a junior ref or are the duties shared during the course of the game?

On one hand, if it's the former, then it's a good idea as it allows good experience for young refs who can participate in a game without having to take all the pressure by themselves. But on the other hand I think the tackle will be scrutinised and the penalty count will go through the roof. Generally I find games with a low penalty count to be more open and even.