Why are you blaming the officials? From what I saw the broncos had no idea and looked like a bunch of players not knowing how to play attacking rugby. Without the officials no game would take place, rather than blaming them, the issue is with the organisation of the team on the field.

Are you northernblokes twin brother. The team were quite poor in passing and handling the ball and we need a couple of big angry mongrels and a new half but we have what we have and they play with their hearts. I won't slag the team off because of results. If we are honest it was expected and we dared to dream.

Why is it pedantic? Merely pointing out the role of the tj, how do you know they didn't call fwd passes?
And how would you know if the ref makes the call

I do find it quite interesting that you will not slag the team off for losing? That's quite an odd approach! It's the players who drop the ball, who slow the ptb, who are offside. Not the ref, not Danny ward, not DH

You moan at other people for going off thread but you do exactly the same thing, this thread is about Referees not about how the team played. If you would like my opinion on how the team played I will give it to you. Up until the Abdul incident I thought they were playing reasonably well I was not thinking we were going to win the game but there was a little bit of hope that we might just pinch a result at the end of the day. After the incident I thought we had no chance of winning, we had no direction we were making to many mistakes we were running sideways a lot of the time and we could not get over the try line. I would question how would the game of gone if the referee had taken charge from the start, how disheartened did the team become when they lost Abdul and Pelisser at the same time (the play maker and the hooker) what position should Cuningham have taken hooker or halfback? I feel that all Catalans games should have one of the top referees because they always try and referee the game and they will play like thugs if the referee lets them get away with it. I will also add that I have never seen Jay Pitts question the referees decisions so much during a game.

I never complain about going off thread. And fwiw it was not me that took it off thread.

The hassle after the game was kenny Edwards trying to get at elois, obviously some bad blood there. Not sure if you saw it but there was an incident in the bench area just after the sun bin involving Edwards.

As for Catalans having a go at the ref, bird was pretty quiet from what I saw.
That game was bubbling quite a lot in the second half and very easily could have kicked off again, have you thought why not?
Credit to Sam Moa and elois though, when they came back on they just got on with playing rugby.

If you actually watch the vid play back of the Sam Moa incident, as soon as the london player catches the ball he stops and gives up to the defender, momentum is gone! The whistle is in the refs mouth blowing for the penalty as soon as that happens it’s less than 2 seconds from the Moa offence not sure how he could have blown sooner anyhow.

The Ref did not blow the whistle until the fight started which was well after the incident.

Watch the play back. His whistle goes to his mouth as soon as the momentum is gone, therefore no advantage in playing on, it’s about 2 or 3 seconds.

RFL disciplinary result, agree that sin bin was correct call. Vid demonstrates no direct or indirect contact with the head.

I'm confused Northernbloke, you said previously that you had watched the playback & the head was struck! Now you say the Vid shows no contact with the head. So which playback is correct?

Like the refs, makes it up as he goes along !

Read my post!
For me it looked like head contact on the play back, I admitted that, my last post was report from RFL discip, who reviewed it, they see it different.

Maybe the panel should have gone to Specsavers!

I understand we have been victim of more poor refereeing at Huddersfield.

Or possibly poor decision making and getting taken into touch with the ball a few too many times

Well Northernbloke. A quick look around the forums you will, with your blind support of the referees, find that you are in a minority of one. In you thinking that everything that the referees do is perfect.

Didnt take you long Bosty to arouse Marvel's latest Super Hero Apology Man!

Funny though, have never seen a ref knock on.
Very seldom see a player admit to a knock on either.

No NB you see lees than Arsene Wenger.

Is that possible Bosty?

Well have you ever seen a ref knock on? Or one be offside! Just a thought!

No but clearly some Refs are one side. However, did once see a Referee drop his whistle. Not seen a player do that.

What kind of answer is that? Perhaps that's where we've been going wrong, expecting the ref to get decisions right rather than being able to play the game. Hope you had a bit more of a sensible approach when speaking to players who dared question a decision of the ref.

I swear to god NB is simply a wind-up merchant!
He is the only person defending the referee, whilst others, who rarely post criticism of the referee are adamant that he was pants.
I wasn't there, but I have seen the challenge on social media and even a relative newbie like me can see that the challenge was illegal and the consequences potentially lethal and therefore, regardless of some pipe-dream defense about "playing advantage", the Ref should have immediately blown and the tackler should have been shown Red. Instead, it took London players getting stuck in for anything to happen and as a result we were down 2 men to their one, as a direct result of their foul play and an inadequate referee.

Where are the modern day Billy Thompsons, Fred Lindops, Russel Smiths, Karl Kirkpatricks or John Holdsworths?

Under Cummings & now Ganson things are getting worse.

Yes, Ganson like many at the top of Rugby League is stealing a living. He needs to go and go now.