What does Mr Alibert have against Wakefield? Everytime he is in charge he gives the most ludicrous decisions that i just can not get my head around. Now everyone makes mistakes, but this fool seems to do it all the time. Some of his decision have cost us dearly this season and easily could have last night had it not been for some fine resolute defending. Its high time the RFL demoted this guy!

looked at the replay when i got in he did not have the best of games and we did not get the rub of the green but JD could have being sent off in the build up to the try some decisions go for you some dont

Not seen a re-run yet but i would be suprised if he got more that 25% of the decisions right. the last ten minutes the saints markers were just doing has they pleased, what a waste of a skin this guy is

Shocking ref for both teams. The new Ashley Klein!

He has nothing against us, lets stop there. This French pillock is by far the most inept official in SL, but we are stuck with him.

I dont however think that JD did anything wrong, look at the replay slowly, he makes first contact, however for avery small amount of time with the hand.

The fact that fat boy KC stuck his thumb in Stosic's eye ball has gone unnoticed, and everyone is on about a punch, there was no punch, look closly fat boy's thumb went directly into the eye.

if that was a sending off i'm dutchman, dont even think it was a foul

I am glad that this idiots performance did not stop the best side last night taking a deserved win. I also dont believe that JD did anything wrong in the lead up to the try - it was a fend with the hand that slipped up to a forearm in the mush - big deal!
Only thing that slightly put a downer on things for me was Stosic doing the theatrical footballer type shhiitte when he got a tap in the face that my grandma would have laughed off - hope i never see this kind of garbage again.

he got a thumb in the eye ball FFS, what are you going on about ? fat boy swung his arm around resulting in an hospital visit today for Stosic at the eye clinic. Theatrical my fat dimpled

i agree with the sentiment but in this case pretty sure it was genuine

Watch it again. JD leads with the flat hand which then moved to the forearm which goes under Wellens chin. He did not lead with the forearm so it was not a foul which is why Ganson awarded a try.

Halibut should not have referred the incident to the Video ref but as he did why did he not do the same when Cunningham clearly punched Stosic in the eye which was foul play and should have been penalised.

Alibert is the worst ref I've seen in a long time and I never thought I'd say this but Klein is light years ahead of him.

very poor performance by the ref. those first 20 mins he made some howlers. then a few more late in the game.

In the first twenty minutes, when he was giving some decisions that completely took away our attacking momentum, he was looking at his touch judge all the time. The touch judge gave each of those decisions, and on each occasion Mr Halibut was a few yards away. The touch judge reffed the first half.

Any suggestion that Stosic took a dive is ridiculous. No prop forward pretends to be injured. It is not in their psyche. In fact the opposite is true, in that all of them would rather laugh at a punch that hurt than pretend that it did. It was obvious that it hurt him, as he stayed down throughout the Saints move. In fact, from memory, I don't think he got up until Wellens was almost taking his kick.

Cunningham is a spoilt brat, like many of the so-called stars, as they are great players for as long as it is going their way.

Anyone like a wager that we get Alibert in Perpignan?It's laid on.

Sky said near end it was 9-2 on pens to saints, don't know if that's how it ended, he's almost like a cartoon character somewere between mr bean, basil fawlty, George roper and mr magoo!!!
Managed to get about 90% of it wrong, so to his credit, he's consistent!!!!!!

The most surprising thing is that people are still surprised by him. Some poor calls but we won so happy days!

Don't go with the "bent" accusations,I commented last night that the guy didn't seem to have a clue with onside/offside positions.

the man is like frank Spencer and makes the rest of the officials look competent . if not for the obvious every time i see him i expect Beadle top take a wig off and run on the field.

I don't think he's bent, just incompitent!!!!
Do they still get the muppet show in France????

I'll let you know in september!

I think the reason refs are accused of being 'bent' so often is that very, very few fans are watching their own team with a view to penalties only the opposition.

the man is a complete joke. we have got a lot better refs in the lower leagues. he is an embarrassment.

Thats exactly my thoughts as well.

The new guy that reffed the Cumbrian derby on Thursday looks half decent,And Jamie Leahy always seems to have a very good go of being the man in charge.

Also did anyone see the Thursday night game about 2 months ago as there was a kid in charge that usually runs the line for Super League matches,He's a tall thin gangley lad and that live Thursday night game he gave a near 100% perfect reffing standard,Since iv'e only seen him run the touchline on several occasions.

Wheres the bottle to let the young guns have a go otherwise nobody will ever want to take up reffing watching the few top ones in charge.

My only view Halibut gets Super League games if due to the RFL wanting the game to help out the overseas officials as well as the teams.

Mr.Cummins WHAT DO YOU ACTUALLY GET PAID TO DO?

I wouldn't mind the first time he was on telly he wasn't that bad

Think it was just a stop-gap, because Klein went to Aus with virtually no notice. Maybe Halibut was the only one who could take a summer off work (other people can empty the bins at Le McDonalds for a few months). He might be gone next year.

James Child- was at the KC last night. He has done severla non Sky Tv games in the middle- about eight I think this season