God the ref was awful..... comments please

is it the first time ever that the referee has brought his son and dad to be the linesmen . the touches were dire one looked 14 and the other looked 60 make no wonder Danny b shouted at him.

but come on saints deserved the win

A special night, only to be spoiled by the RFL for sending a cast member from the muppets to ref the game.

SHAME ON YOU THE [uRFL [/u

was Mr magoo on the line???

saints deserved it they are a class outfit but i believe the ref spoilt any fight back

Definitely a very poor display of refereeing. Not biased; just bad! Touch judges no better. Well done to both teams for not getting involved in a slanging match with the 'officials'.

It appears that Terry Halibut makes 75% of his decisions based on pure guesswork....and that gormless look on his face does nothing to aid his cause.

Klein was a cheat and the French lad is completely clueless, he made it up as he went along.

Which is worse?

That said (apart from the blatant offside of Gidley and Cunningham) the line speed of Saints was unbelievable, people tend to notice sides like Leeds and Saints for their attacking prowess, but their defence is immense!

I have no idea where they found that ref last night, Awful!

From "Allo Allo" wasn`t it ?

Its a poor state of affairs im affraid. The full time pro refs are no better - just a little bit fuller of themselves. Bentham - is a complete idiot - did anyone else notice that the last time he was at BV he had grease smothered across his eye brows - so embarassing - obviously a case of a ref that desperately wants to be a player. The RFL forced one of the decent refs to quit in Kirkpatrick and we are left with a poor set. Not sure why the policy on line judges is that you need to be either under 15 or over 70 and under 10 stone or over 16 stone. Eaqual opps i guess!

He was as bad (if not worse) for us against Cas last week.

Even mre of a worrk we have Mr "screen for every try" Silverwood tonight, and guess who the VR is

Don't think he knew what was going on and that look on his face vonfirmed it.

How about the Murphy break from the scrum, why on earth did he call it back?

i think it said it all when saints got a penalty and their players looked as confused as anyone

yet the penalty count was something like 12 to wakefield and 4 to us...

the ref was garbage clueless blind do ineed to go on ...we had ashurst mum and dad behind us trying to wind the wife up because we were shouting the forward passes,then she came out with comment on high shots that s.h were doing on us wich hangered all us and one of the trin fans put her in her place and rightly so telling her we have lost one player we dont want anymore and that her comments werenot wanted

doesnt make him a good ref though does it...

it was ashurst mother who came out with the bad comments

Did he say the ref gave us more decisions than you, no i thought not, so why the rolling eyes, if you can't read thats your problem, if you feel you need to reply to a post i'll give you a tip, READ IT FIRST

again to be fair to all on the pitch last night, how any of them could have concentrated is beyond me. I decided after about 5 mins last night to have no opinions about anyones performance for once. ref included.

He gave us few pens towards end of game. Half of what he did was guess work it seemed. Hope he improves for the next time we have him as ref

I didn't think he was too bad. He missed those two blatant ball steals in the 2nd half but overall he was ok.

He wasn't biased, just looked a little out of his depth at times. We certainly got the better of his decisions, but to have a go at him on an occasion like this one if a bit unfair, IMO. He didn't win or lose anyone the game, tried to keep the game flowing, wasn't petty in his decision-making. He missed a few things, but come on, give the guy a break, it can't have been easy for him either.

Do you think Mr Halibut was feeling the same as everyone else at that match? I wouldn't like to have been in his shoes last night. It was a stressful game for everyone. He did make some errors - like not noticing the ball spining on its axis as it was stolen from Cunningham under the posts (but was alleged a knock on - Cunningham looked bemused). Stevo and Eddie babes couldn't believe that decision as it was so obvious. Balls don't spin like that when they've been dropped! And there were other decisions for both sides which didn't quite look kosher.

Still. My experience of Mr Halibut is that he is better than he was last night, much as my experience of Wakey is that they are better than they were last night (we might be too, I don't know, we only had 14 men by the end - I couldn't keep up with what was going on in my own team).

I reckon the guy needs to be cut some slack, same as everyone on Friday night, given the circumstances. He's an ok ref normally.

Mr Aliberts performance was reminiscent of last weeks at the KC, he aint got a clue.

First I'd seen Thierry Alibert reffing in the flesh on Friday night and my word...

A COWARDLY, SURRENDERMONKEYING, ROAD-BLOCKING, PERMINANT-STRIKING, ROS-BEEF-CALLING, HORSE-EATING, NO-BRAINER.










You should never use a video referee to judge a GLDO, that's just fundamental basic ref etiquette. Complete idiot. The sooner the RFL realise the mistake they've made in hiring him and say <<au revoir>> to him the better.

Or better still, if anyone knows where this René Artois soundalike stays, I'd drive him back to France myself.