I don't usually have a go at match officials as they have a hard enough job as it is, but having reviewed both last nights and last Fridays Widnes V Oldham dvd's, how this guy has another top game this weekend is beyond me, he was clearly influenced by the crowd last night, he was inconsistent in BOTH games in the way he gave the penalties not only against the two winning teams but against both losers.
His performances over the last two games should be shown to young refs as how not to ref a game.
No sour grapes on the main 'event' as Hobson clearly showed intent even if he didnt connect (inconclusive on dvd, and as for another post the Fev fan who said the player jumped straight up, well yes he did once Mr Childs reached for the red card as he went down as if he'd been shot from the 'grassy knoll' but the yellow card for Stewart, yes he's not the most quickest of players geting off the tackle but he had let far slower ones get away completely unpunished.
Sorry Mr Childs but your evaluation last night would have been 1/10 and that would be for just turning up.

Rather than criticise the ref (even if he was cr@p) I though the object of the exercise is not to give the ref an opportunity to make cr@p decisions. Hobson clearly did and he will remain a liability as long as he plays.

I think some are losing the point no one has/had any qualms about the sending off of Hobson its the refs overall performance thats at question.

Bad day at the office

Very very very bad day

its quite simple, hobson was a bad buy, i said so at the time and i say so now, as for the ref last night, yes he was awful, and i hate and i repeat hate slagging off refs, but lets not take anyhting away from a truely awesome performance from our boys, yes we lost, but we will play far worse this year and win.