I think he is a top ref,he is the only one who will never bottle a big decision.

He wants so much to be centre of attention its cringeworthy. The bit where he has a go at Fielden for looking at him was really bad, i wouldnt of blamed Fielden for knocking his head off.

Ganson was standing no messing.
He had a spat with Fielden and later marched Ryan Bailey back ten for an ironic hand clap on Ganson's decision.
One of those tackles where he penalised us for wrestling on the floor, I thought the Leeds player hit the ground with his ball carrying arm. If he did and we started to wrestle rather than roll away then it's a pen.

What annoys me about refs are the number of forward passes that get missed.
James Child got one right tonight at the Willows and he got a few when he ref'd us at our place. As for the rest they just seem to let them go!

He isn't a top ref. He's just miles better than the other load of dross.

But that makes him top, doesn't it? Top of a rubbish heap is still top...

He asks Fielden at the next scrum....."Are we friends again now" !!!!!!!!

Yeah I heard him say that too, thought he was probably talking to Fielden. What a gifford.

That's the whole point in a nutshell. If the ref wants to penalise to ensure quick PTB's then he needs to do it consistently for both sides and he didn't. Had he done so the match would have dissolved into a penalty-athon.

Because he didn't, it then leads to accusations of bias based on the fact our tackling technique has been highlighted by certain coaches on the wrong end of a result.

I would add though that he got most of the other decision's correct but the way he went about things in the first 20 minutes to get the quick PTB was not even handed.

Dave

Yep.

I pay my hard earned to watch two teams playing a game of rugby not him! The sooner this overweight over ego idiot retires the better. He is the worse ref in superleague!!

But he isn't, the sad fact is, he is the best.

No, Ganson says...." I saw what he did ", obviously not Steve as he didn't do anything !!!!, he is arguably the best ref in the comp, but he does like the 'limelight'.

just out of curiosity, if you think gansen is the worst ref in the league, who do you consider the best?

I personally think he may have said that to try and diffuse any anger from the Leeds players who thought Joel had done something.

look son if you delivered more papers you wouldn't be so skint and bloody miserable

Ganson is streets ahead of the rest who quite frankly are a complete bunch of no-marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or maybe he saw how well Joel was playing and wants him banned before we play his beloved Saints on Friday !!!!

Can I just correct this part?

Ganson didn't have a clear view of ST's jump and as no TJ told him anything, he gave a 20m restart.

As he was running back, the TJ on the West Stand side told him (several times) that Sam had jumped from the field of play.

To clarify the situation, Ganson referred to Alibert, but it was the TJ who screwed up by not saying immediately that it should be a dropout (and TBF - Ganson had a go at him, and the TJ apologised both at the time and at half-time for not being quicker to make the call).

My only issue with Ganson on Friday was that Leeds were being just as fast/slow as we were at the PTB, but he only penalised us as he seemed to think that he needed to "sort us out" early on.

This was also my take on it.