worst case of Child abuse ever witnessed by over 200 people

I think that Mr Childs has made some crucial mistakes in every game he has refereed. Agar was quite right in what he said but quite wrong in the way he said it. Just a pity he did not send his complaint to the RFL in writing, and I am sure a leak to the press could have been arranged.

Leigh proved that they are a good team.

Why should they? They are making a fortune in fines from his reffing!

You should know that a Championship team is not allowed to beat a Super League team, especially one of the expansion clubs. Ben Thaler robbed us blind a couple of years ago when we should have beaten Catalans at Featherstone.

The Leigh players clearly thought that the Cats player bounced the ball as Donlan picked up the ball and ran while the inept person with whistle awarded the try BUT the linesman was just as much to blame

Interesting this. When we played Catalans in the quarters last season, they were on a run of about 7 or 8 successive defeats and struggling really badly with injuries. We felt we were in with a great chance of causing an upset. Sadly, one minute into the game and Sean Hesketh was dismissed for a lame high tackle that in any other game would warrant no more than a penalty to the opposition. Game over from that stage on. Think the ref that day was Ian Smith?

Just watched Cats first second half try 4 times. It does look like a knock on. I have to say though the ref was behind the try line and in the right position to see if the ball was grounded before it popped up. You can check for yourself if you fast forward to 49 mins 35 secs.

I thought Childs did not have the best of games but I do not believe these conspiracy theories.

One more thing we certainly have one very impressive side this season. I said awhile ago our best team for 30 seasons. Maybe I was wrong it is longer than that.

These Leythers ALL OF THEM are the real deal.

I think it was a shame last year what went on at Fax because i think we would have give them a dam good game. Looks like Leigh ran them very close, would have been good for the Championship if you could have just sneaked but it still looks really good to say what their salary cap is and to say what we are working with.

I would like to say that Fax will give the Bulls a run tommorow but we wont get close, last season i would have defnatley fancied my chances but it looks like the Leigh game would have been good on TV.

I don't back to conspiracy theories and the world is against us mentality of some Leythers. I just think Childs is completely incompetant and we got the wrong end of his ineptitude.

Please don't send him back to our league

I was listening to GMR. They couldn't make their minds up.

With ten minutes to go and you down 12-22 they were saying it was game over. Not long before that they said "You wouldn't know which was the Super League team here." They were most unimpressed with Mr Childs near the end.

It sounded like a great game, and without wanting to sound disrespectful to Leigh, they have every right to be proud of how close the game was, especially if the comments re: James Childs are correct. I'm sure a lot of people expected Leigh to get pasted, but by the sounds of it you had every chance to win.

Naturally I wanted the underdog to win, so I was absolutely hooked on the commentary when it was as close as it was.

A BIG well done to you, shame that the last professional RL team to be unbeaten have finally had that broken, especially if it really is as controversial as it seems, although I must admit I still hate your coach and wouldn't want him anywhere near Super League.

A competitive Leigh in SL would be great, though.

Sorry mate but you are wrong. I was there too as you know.

The Limoux lads were breathing out of their backsides in the last 20 and getting caught offside and constantly interfering with the tackle far too many times. Losing the ruck and then slowing the game down with lazy rugby isnt how the games are reffed at any level.

And that was pretty much it.

The biggest disgrace was the locals and club officials hounding out an 18 year old lad on the refereeing out of his changing room. Very brave that was.

[q penalising Higson when he pushed Blanch into touch near the end.

The Watcher thinks this penelty was for offside from the up & under.

Maurice agree with Watcher, haven't seen if he was or wasn't yet though

Well you can't tell off the video. Ellis raises his arm to tell our lads he is going to kick then the outside backs run and they do look to have made some good ground before dragging the Cat lad into touch.

To be sure you would need to be in the West stand near the half way line. Frankb would like to know if the Watcher was sat there.

Had a hunch that Higson might have been offside as Ellis kicked from quite a deep position.

The Watcher was sat very close to where Blanch caught the kick & therefore does not know if any of our players were offside.

You'd struggle not to know if he was there, he's the bloke behind you shouting "the watcher thinks that was offside ref"!

Well on balance it looks like it was offside.

When you review a lot of the contraversial decisions Childs made he does seem to be justified with some of them.

Now I know he got a bad reception but we have to remember we may get him again this season.



Good performance by him is therefore my view.

? Well we would not have won the Challenge Cup would we.

I guess the camera would not be able to pick up whether a Leigh player or Cats No.15 palmed the ball dead which resulted in a repeat set for the Cats which led to one of their 1st half tries?

What was the view from the rest of the North Stand?

On reflection, it took only one incorrect call to rob us of the match (or at least a chance at the "Golden Point"icon_wink.gif. Maybe he got the other 3 right but......

What this guys gives is strange decisions at strange times that no other refs appear to give which confuses ans, players and coaches of both teams.

He is either top class or top clown.

I usuallly go with the percenages

I honestly don't believe he's 'bias' towards any teams, he's just incompetent. He let's blatant penalties go and then blows up when there's a vague chance that there was a foul. I don't think it's a co-incidence that the games where the fans/coaches have gone mad it was the home team that felt robbed.

I am not sure about the last bit Jonny.

I remember the first game he reffed with us involved. It was at Fev in a NRC tie they got the penalty count something like 24-4.

Charlie Caroli thinks Frank B was going over the Top in his Friendship with our French opponents, Charlie thinks this bloke had seen a Bus Station before ,and didnt need a guided tour of Leigh Bus Station

no wonder people avoid Frank B.

I really can't subscribe to the theory that Mr Child cost us the game. I think he had a poor game, and seemed to mystify the players (all of them) quite a lot. He seems to enjoy seeing teams under pressure, near their own line, by often awarding three decisions one way, followed by three the other!

I thought each side was awarded a controversial try, (Goulden's and Stacul's) so that balanced out.

In all honesty, what I thought cost us the game, was a slight, but maybe understandable, lack of composure at times. (e.g. Stuart Donlan and Steve Maden getting their wires crossed with a walk-over beckoning)

It would have been great to win, but the side proved so many good things about themselves and another cup game (or more!) may have proved a very big distraction, from more important objectives.

Oh no not another one.