Quote ="Ganson's Optician"It doesn't make the slightest difference to their performance as referee whatsoever. Once you go down that route where do you draw the line? Henry Perenara has shower in our last two meetings that deliberately appointing a 'neutral' referee achieves nothing and just prevents those most capable of doing the job.'"
He wasn't neutral, no NRL appointed ref ever is.
It puts huge pressure on them to show how unbiased they are, and is not fair on them especially when there is no need for them to be there.