Riding in on his white charger the ever popular Knight Templar of the RFL's referees list

Drum roll.........

Mr Phil Bentham !!!

Or to quote Kermit

The special guest on the Muppet show tonight is Mr Phil Bentham yaaaaaaaay !!!!

Can you possibly believe it !!! Ahhh well Wembley 2016 maybe ??????

Oh well, never mind, don't know how he keeps his job, but he keeps on getting the gigs

Good news for you as we hate him more than you do and he certainly dislikes us with a passion , on Sunday we got our first penalty from him in the 40th minute despite Widnes never standing square and laying on to a ridiculous extent yet seemed to manage to find any reason to penalise us , and unfortunatley this has gone on for 5 years with him . The only ref on the circuit we would rather have less is Child

SNAP!

SNAP

DOUBLE SNAP

We are playing Leeds not Bentham,if the players take the field worrying about him they will be on a hiding to nothing.Lets hope Broughy can keep his mouth shut!!

Exactly, we know what we're gonna get so let's try and rise above hm and hope the players do too.

lets just hope Brough doesn't attempt a drop goal....

Nothing wrong with attempting drop goals but surely the idea is to make sure that the ball goes between the posts?

lets hope that his aim is better this time eh?

could have predicted this as soon as the draw was made and it was on the bbc

makes our task even harder now

sod him, if we play better than leeds and take our chances and limit theirs we win

You mean better than the one he actually kicked but Bentham decided to ignore and not even check

Yeah, let's hope Bentham has his specs

And that he's learnt the difference between the ball playing the man and vice versa

No, let's hope he gets a fair chance and that, unlike saints, Leeds contest by a charge down from an onside position.
Even brown and walsh said the last one from brough was over....

Which one was that, the one that SKY proved actually missed when viewed with advanced technology. You're not still boring everyone down the pub about that are you ? I can imagine them all rolling their eyes when you walk through the door.

as opposed to walking out when you enter?

Surely he can't treat you any worse than Silverwood did against them the other week, not sure whether a draw was a fair result or not, not bothered either way tbf as it does not affect us, but certain decisions against you were diabolical and ultimately cost you a win, Bentham can't be as bad can he

No Bentham is far, far worse, he's had some real stinkers when reffing us, he's incompetent, inconsistent and totally useless. How he's regarded as one of our top refs is quite simply baffling

He did admit in the bar at london a few years ago (after a fair few shandies) that he dislikes Huddersfield....but he does have a wicked sense of humour