You mean the way Wire do EVERY SINGLE GAME?

Some wire fans do not have a clue.

I'm amazed by this.

Yeah on the end of a rope the Stains git.




He just might be the best ref at present but no way am I shouting for the egotistical t*sser.

Indeed. They use that video ref to determine drop outs, 40/20s and even scrums sometimes but they missed that one. Not like he wasn't told.

Locky screamed at him "he dropped it, he dropped it cold, he dropped it f*cking cold". And no response.

Clueless

cained you





Give over

Silverwood was pathetic but with that fat sod Scummings in charge nothing will happen, he seems untouchable in his position and never has to justify anything to do with his refs.

O'lafflin shoud have been given 10 mins for that outburst, live on TV, and just to clear things up, it is now okay not to touch the ball with your foot when playing the ball! Cheats!!!!!

watch the game, didn't see any of your players doing it either!

Hypocrit!

Silverwood was diabolical tonight !

Absolutely awful.

Refs have a thankless job, but he was dire.

Couldn't agree more....and is it a coincidince that he likes to video ref Catalans home matches?

Yeah its called the internet

Does anybody else love the xfiles music during long video ref decisions - like the riley try/shove

I was wetting myself laughing

Silverwood should be stood down from top filght after that performance, he simply isnt good enough and no amount of excuses from the RFL can justify his position.

I think it was the St Helens v Wakefield game a few weeks back, when I think it was Ganson who was the video ref at the time, went back to have a look at an elbow into the face of Graham. Now I'm pretty sure at the time the ref didn't ask the VR to look at that incident, but he still did anyway.

Why couldnt Ganson do that tonight if he knew for sure that the try shouldnt of stood?

Totally agree. Like a poster said before refs have a thankless task but he was really shocking last night.

At the moment Ganson is easily the best ref in Superleague, but then look at the competition, frightening!!

Yeah, was hilarious.

thought silverwood was excellent tonight.

Was a clear knock on and should not have been a try, watched again and the wigan player clearly has his arm in there, no try penalty to Warrington.

what was a clear knock on?

Westwoods knock on for the first try.

rubbish.

Every decision in the first half went for you, we had about 3 knock ons against us when the ball didn't even leave the players grasp.

EDIT: i meant i was disagreeing with you about it being ripped out and being a penalty to warrington, i think it was just a clear knock on.

Whoever mentioned about Cummins being untouchable has put his finger on the nub of this problem.

Cummins was a shockingly bad and famously biased referee in his own right. He's the only ref I ever remember beng physically attacked on the pitch because he'd annoyed the fans of one side so much. How the hell he ever qualified to be a controller of referees, I don't know. I can only imagine it was a 'jobs for the boys' thing up at Red Hall. But he now seems to be running his stable of refs like a personal fief. They are answerable to no-one, yet get it wrong time and again, often in the glare of the TV cameras. Even with the benefit of video replay, they regularly make crucial mistakes.

Silverwood alone has made mistakes of so serious a nature that, if replicated in a non-recreational industry, would mean him facing some kind of reprimand. His bizarre deafness to the hooter earlier this season, which allowed Hull KR to score what was in effect the winning try. The Saints v Wigan match in which Wigan incurred something like 20+ penalties by half-time; most of them were for virtually nothing, yet the second half of a match that was playing to a full house was rendered hull and void thanks to Silverwood's showmanship.

The guy is an out and out menace to the game IMO, but then his boss was too, and look what he managed to achieve. Unfortunately that's British RL all over.