Smith was decent. It was fairly obvious from where i was standing. All the wire fans were complaining and when i got home and watched the video then the ref was generally proved right.

People were even complaining about going to the vid ref which is stupid. if it is there then you may aswell use it.

Everyone went mad about Hicks taking 2 bombs and the ref was proved right.

The hicks decision from the kick off was a tough call but his hands were around his feet and you could see it wasn't a clear cut call to make.

My only complains would be Leeds tactics or reefing the ball out on regular ocassion, something hard for the ref to see everytime. and also the vid ref, mather hash and mcguires try were the same thing in my opinion and they should have both been given as grounded or neither be given as grounded.

The Harrison try was a harsh call but Clarke didn't have to be there.

Mathers had absolutly no downwards pressure as the ball was still rolling. Putting your fingers on the ball as it rolls does not count as grounding it. Mcguire grounded the ball as he stopped it moving as it contacted the ground, he pushed it downwards, Mathers brushed against it. And to say the match was fixed was laughable you really think all the desicions went against you?? Take your warrington specs off and watch the game properly.

HTH

I keep an eye on Smith from a betting point of view.Latchfordwolvesfan and les boyd is god know the reasons,of which I dare'nt print on here!
Statistics have stacked up oer the years,though last night we got far more than i was expecting.

Homer?

Nope not at all.

To be honest whilst watching the game i felt Smith was absolutely terrible but when i watched the match again he wasn't that bad, a few dodgy calls like the Hicks knock-on and the Donald knock-on but in all he gave some good decisions and a few were in our favour, granted a few wasn't but it's the same with every match and i have definitely seen worse reffing this year.

What is it that Smith said, that he has to prepare a team, that's good enough to overcome any dodgy ref calls to take them out of the equation. Last night, he was close to doing so, fair enough for me.

Lots of questionable stuff, VR decisions etc, that's why I love rugby, the injustice of it sometimes, it's ace.

I don't think anyone can blame the referee for last nights defeat, although he didn't have the best of games his poor decisions affected both sides.

smith was ok last night...we should of won this simple as..but losing the ball in your own half with less than 2 mins to go is not the refs fault...not kicking he ball dead(mathers) is not the refs fault...stop these silly mistakes for next week and we`ll be fine

Thaler was the problem, Harrisons try was fine, it was Diskins choice to go for Clarke, no obstruction whatsover, and the Mathers grounding and MaGuire grounding were alsmot identical, even Maguire thought he hadn't scored.

Right, so thats a few blaing the ref and a few blaming the vid ref. Why is it only ever fans of the losing side that do it. You know when a team has lost you will come on here and one of 3 repetative things will be trotted out

We lost because of the ref.
the "Im not blaming the ref but" (then they go onto blame the ref)
The ref was cr@p for both teams guff (then they go onto blame the ref)

its so sad.

Why have I said we lost because of Thaler bright spark? He got decisions wrong....that's a Rafa style fact.

so just by co-incidence and nothing to do with losing you thought you'd come up with a critical assessment of the ref. Why does this NEVER happen with fans of the winning team?

so ur saying we didnt play dor the full 80 mins. must have been watching a differant game to the rest of us

Nah, I just thought I'd make a post regarding the refereeing of the game on a thread about the referee, and for your info there are lots of threads started about refs when we have won.

Have you woke up on the wrong side today Mark

you seem a little cheesed off today.

No pal, just had enough of bellends.

the only bellends are those who cant accept defeat with grace

Show me where I haven't?

the bit where you blame the ref. To be fair to you, you say it outright rather than coming up with the usual guff lines I have stated earlier.

Bet your well boring to go the match with.

i wonder who you mean

I've had a lot of unwarranted e off a few people over the last week or two so it wouldn't surprise me if it was me. lol.

Where?

the bit where you described him a the problem. He wasnt the problem, the problem lies elsewhere. Labelling him as the problem is blaming him.