Well well , it seems my Sandy haired friend Mr George Stokes will be in charge



i know he upset a few on this forum the last game he reffed for us , even upset a couple who didnt even attend the game





,lets not get into Karl Harrisons sour grapes syndrome , a Refs job is hard enough , and i personally think Mr Stokes is one of our better referees , Cmon Leythers we dont need to bag the Ref for a reason for not winning .

A most pleasant gentleman who performs his work with an amazing talent - rarely wrong and always professional (Do you think he reads this forum??)

I think Thomasson is the best ref we get but then Georgey boy comes in second.

Some of them are just not up to it (altough Childs got promoted so what do I know!!!).

Think he reffed last seasons game at Mount Pleasant if I recall it was a Thursday night and due to traffic problems the game kicked off at 8-15pm.

Dont forget to mention we won too

Whats wrong with sandy hair?

Best ref in the championship in my opinion.

Him and Thomason are better than some of the muppets like Roby,Hicks et al.

Barty i never said there was anything wrong with Sandy hair , obviously you have never seen or met me ?As my hair was very Red at one time , though now it is much thinner on top .

He and Ian Smith (Video ref) were involved in a real 'cock up' when Sheffield scored their first try at Leigh a couple of weeks ago in the TV game. Stokes awarded Sheffield a penalty on our line, they took a very quick tap and Stokes went 'upstairs' for a decision on the grounding. Stokes assured Smith that he was happy with the quick penalty take. Why then would Stokes say 'woh woh woh' to the Sheffield player and actually tried to pull him back. If the Sheffield player had been a horse he would have stopped immediately. Smith's explanation was puzzling, he admitted he couldnt tell whether it was a try or not. Whatever - Sheffield were hammered in the end. Mr.Stokes prefers to be described as 'strawberry blonde' rather than a redhead by the way.

Here i am praising Mr Stokes before the game

but i feel her had a shocker today , let Batley get away with to many high shots , and then was very harsh sin binning Littler , it may sound like sour grapes , but i felt he murdered us in penalties .

beleive me he was not harsh sin binning Littler it happened right in front of us and he clearly bent the player arm back, still probabaly pee'd off with the ball steal on him early doors or just frustration

the ref was not good but we were not at our best, so its wasnt the ref s fault, he was very picky on some things though and seemed to ignore offside altogether. I hope its not him Thursday however.

We were guilty of that on a good few occasions. I was stood towards the bottom of the slope for the last 10 minutes of the first half and we were offside on virtually every tackle. In fact, it probably contributed to so many tries being conceded in that spell because the lack of a proper line meant there was gaps all over the place.

was "that" pass forrad matt??? I was stood at the top end!

We had 8 players missing from our squad. Goulden, Taylor, Spencer, Nash, Laithwaite, Duffy, Pownall and Maden. They had 4 giants in their forwards who absolutely battered us. They are dark horses for Grand Final at end of season in my opinion.

Can't stand that ref. He was just smirking when he walked off at half time. How he awarded that last try in first half is beyond me when one of our players was taken out. Anyway our mistakes contributed to the loss again as with the Fev game. Still think Leigh have done extremely well with such a paper thin squad and no money.