Super League

CASTLEFORD TIGERS V WAKEFIELD TRINITY
Friday 21st February
The Mend-A-Hose Jungle | KO : 19:45

Referee J. Child
Touch Judge 1 D. Bowmer
Touch Judge 2 J. Roberts
Reserve Referee B. Pearson
Reserve Touch Judge S. Race
Video Referee T. Grant
M Com S. Williams
Time Keeper D. Milburn

Surprise surprise!

I think Childs has mellowed a little from his former attiitude towards us. In one or two games last season he actually seemed to "lean" in favour of Trinity with some decisions.

We all criticise referees from time to time but at the end of the day they don't let the tries in or fail to take chances in attack.
We have to get smarter and stop giving them opportunity to penalise us.
Sundays match was a start!

And most of the time it’s the touch judges who get it wrong but hardly get any criticism.

You tend to find that as most refs become less star struck as their experience grows. In the end the endless gamesmanship employed by certain top players backfires and the refs end up detesting them.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Thaler has been suspended because some Coach at a ‘top’ club has moaned that he isn’t leaning towards them as much as he should.

Only Klien never seemed to change, he hated us from start to finish.

It's not fair to speculate. Let's just leave it until they announce something.

Terry Albert could even count to 6 when he ref us

And scored off it which makes it worse

That PT was not speculation it was an opinion, one I stick by. Some coaches have a well documented history of complaining directly to the Controller of Refs after defeats where they feel they were treated unfairly, it’s in the public domain. Most seem to come from ‘top’ clubs and are more often than not Aussies.

Tbf I bet CC would like to do the same but is savvy enough to know that nobody would take him seriously, not with that accent!

Opinion and speculation essentially one and the same a theory not based on fact or evidence

Can someone supply the name of the ref who got chased from the field. I never will forget the outrage and anger on the twins faces as they chased him along with about 30 other supporters.

Karl Kirkpatrick.

Thats the man the very man. He seemed to constantly gave wakey a tough time.

Isn't in the employment of Warrington these days?

He didn't do us any favours in France when we played Catalans for the first time at that RU ground either in 2006, neither did whichever of the chuckle Bros either as one of them was the video ref, allegedly anyway cos I never saw any tv cameras.

That's Karl Fitzpatrick

I would say it's not that they get it wrong, they just don't actually do anything to assist the ref IMO.
I don't tend to see touch judges give any decisions really so it's hard to say they're getting it wrong (even though technically by doing nothing they are getting it wrong)

So my opinion that the world is round is just speculation, poor effort even for you. I mean I’ve not actually been into space and seen it myself

The only fact available on Mr Thaler situation is he's suspended, unless you are privvy to other details,so the question I have of you is, what evidence have you formed this opinion on his suspension.

Oops.

In this example it's the same.
You are right that some coaches moan to the controller but that isn't what you said.
You said they moaned that he didn't lean towards them. Very different.
If you keep down that line I'll have to stop you.

Some of those that pursued Kirkpatrick off the pitch that day were supposedly banned sine die by the Club, but I know that some of them still attend at Belle Vue, and have done for years.

Why? What possible law do you imagine I’m breaking this time?

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You are implying that one of the group is cheating.
And its nothing to do with the thread.