The ref for this Sundays game is our mate Ronnie Laughton.

Been a while Ronnie,welcome back.

And I thought that there was a God!

We're up against it now as he reffed our last game against Oldham at their new ground and lost it for us, being completely 'old manned' throughout the game!

Eventually he sent-off Buster who was then cleared by the Disciplinary Committee.

After last week's refereeing display at Rochdale I wondered how bad things could get; thought that the only ref who was worse is Laughton and hoped against hope that he wouldn't be allocated our game on Sunday and look what's happened now!

We gonna have to put up with this for another year?, Who cares who the ref is? I am not a fan of referees, but I and many others know they have a hard enough job to do in ANY sport.
How many times have people watched a game on tv, thought a decision was wrong, then saw the replay and saw that it ws the right call?
Referees don't have the benefit of replays in our division, they only call what they see, and atleast they have the guts to go out there and do the job...

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Rugby_Darren , some refs do get a hard time just for the sake of being the man in the middle .. one of the downfalls of the job

. But in Ronnie Laughton we are talking one of the most incompetent b******s that ever walked this planet. People pay good money to watch a game of rugby NOT to watch some clown with an ego bigger than Chris Caisley. Please respect the right for fans to air their views about refs because without us fans there would be no club

Thank goodness it is at home where at least the season Ticket holders should turn up.As promised in previous topics I would not have gone had it been away. I just hope we do not get him for any away games as I pride myself on going to every match, but I will not waste time and money going to [uwatch him [/uruin a game whether it be to the benefit of Keighley or the opposition. I can accept any amount of genuine errors by a referee but not a referee that takes over the game. I watched the penalty count in some of the games he referees and it is too coincidental that his is nearly always a good 30% higher than the average.

If you do look at this forum Ronnie, please let the game flow

Im looking forward to this game as I have good connections with the Oldham gang.

However, im now very concerned what will take place over the 80mins. I feel Mr Laughton does have too much of a say in the game.

That playoff game v Rochdale sticks in my mind.

There seemed to be a lot of penalties today.

I definitely thought that was a 40/20 in the second half. Anyone know why this was not given?

Dont see what all the fuss is about.

I thought he had a good game today.

Ronnie Laughton had a decent first 20 mins by his standards, then the REAL Mr Laughton turned up and treat us to another display of incompetence (on both sides)
In reply to Connors comment about JD going on the attack , I think i would have given their stand off a good crack if he'd just embedded his elbow in my face.
I understand what you say about his discipline but what happened was just plain sh**house tactics.


As for Richie Barnett dont particularly want to see him in a Keighley shirt again .... bring back Mossy
RANT OVER

Barnet made a cracking tackling crossing the field almost Corner to Corner to stop a try and in fairness he may have had the ball stolen a couple of times. Also it is hard in soft mud for a winger to get the speed up.

James H also had a cracking try saving tackle to make in the first half.

I agree Skindred:



How come that everyone in the ground saw the elbow in the face with the exception of the ref and his assistants?

Moving-on, I must ask 'How many chances does Richie Barnett need?'

His speed is OK (without the ball) and I agree that he saved a try with his cross-field chase but he dithers around instead of running. He had the chance this afternoon to show everyone a clean pair of heels but instead he ran across the field and wasted a great chance for another score.

He's far too light and I can now understand why he's played for so many clubs and moved-on.

OK, he scored a try, but anyone could have scored his try this afternoon,it was made by the cut-out pass from Jones(?)

Really?

I thought he was his usual useless self. Blowing up for decisions almost at random. Gave a penalty against Barnett for holding down when I could see from 40 yards away that the Oldham player was holding his arm, Sam Tomkins style. Almost lost control completely in the last 10 minutes of the first half, it looked like a mass brawl was on the cards.

He just ruins perfectly good games with his overly pedantic whistle blowing. Overly pedantic to the point that he blows for things that just don't happen. Then he misses the most obvious offences. I can sympathise with Gavin Duffy, the frustration of his inept refereeing clearly got to him.

He just shouldn't be allowed near a professional rugby field.

It took a while, but at long last i got a bite.

Surprised it was you Mick. And i used such poor bait as well

Gutted.

I shouldn't have had those pints in the Cricketers before coming on here.

I'm quite prepared to accept the fact that all refs make mistakes but what annoys me the most about this bloke is inconsistency. Buster was red carded at Oldham for far less than went on today. His interpretation seems to vary as the match progresses.

The 40/20 call was a farce. When all three officials claim not to be sure it's time they got some more training.

I think the referee was appauling yesterday. Not because I feel we were hard done to, just the style of his refereeing. I know he gets a lot of stick for making poor desicions, however its more the relentless penalties for every minro offence.

In super league (i know its a different league of official and player), referees are often heard calling things like 'number 6 you're two yards in front there), not always blowing the shistle in an attempt to make the game flow. Laughton cannot do this, I think he cant keep up with the speedof the play the ball. Every set of 6 pretty much had an infringement in there, holding down or offside. Fine to the letter of the rule book its an offence however free flowing rugby is completely out of the question.

Each set of 6 is a carefully managed play for Laughton, in fact we only ever got about 3 5th tackle kicks out! if you could spread bet on the number of penalties in a game you would have safe money on games officiated by him.

In my opinion it makes the game rubbish to watch and spoiled it, we did play well however if the game was free flowing we would probably got 40 points on the board. Fair play to oldham though, they played till 80 minutes and were also on the other end of Laughtons game slowing.

Laughton did not blow for two blatent high tackles, both by Cougars in the last 5 mins. One appeared deliberate and dangerous, whilst some play acting may have been involved the referee saw it with his own eyes and made no acknowledgment. Didn't tap his shoulder to say 'not on the head' just stood there perplexed while the player limped to his feet after a minute.

He is so poor it is becoming dangerous to the players.