Wouldn't it be great if supporters after the game could lay the fault of the defeat at the players, coach etc and not the officials.

Time and time again we see people on here blaming the referee or even worse accusing them deliberately of favouring the opposition and so enough is enough.

I propose we have a respect the referee weekend, where we accept every decision they make.

We kinda think one of the refs favours us now...
...I think he did as a linesman aswell, no wonder the RFL promoted him to a ref, I bet they got sick of our man running onto the pitch.

Good post MG. I'm with you on this one.

Are talking about Child?

Provided that we can direct the most foul abuse imaginable at them during the course of the game. It sure vents the spleen.

you should know we do both on here, anyway why should lay off him, are you going to tell your fellow fans to stop shouting forward at every oppositions play at home

nar think not

dont worry MG this is the wakey site , the ref could crap in JDs boots before kick off and some would still hang the same scapegoats

I do not want any referee to favour us, I would like a group of officials who knew the game and all its rules. Then applied them fairly to both sides, while not wanting to be the centre of attention all the time.

Jeez is rugby league the new netball/snooker or something? I bet even when we win 40-6 JK has a good moan at half the things we've done/not done.
They'll be ejecting kids for trying to put an opponents kicker off soon.

Well this weeks match official is C.Dean according to SL website.

cat got ya tounge?

its true that more posters blame gleeson or say jd is past it or ect ect . if your so bored may i suggest the off button

This is a pi$$ take? Yes?

Think the Refs & Linesmen would get more respect if there didn't have such inept displays all the times regarding Offsides/Forward passes its hard to show any respect when you've just lost a game to some bad decisions in a game but hey thats life er

Yeah, I agree. It's almost as if people watch the game and then form an opinion.

I too have noticed how as Gleeson makes more and more mistakes there are more and more posters voicing criticism about him.

yep and my opinion is that we should get behind the team ... funny things forums

Thing is if Gleeson has a stormer against Wigan we'll all be praising him and hopefully it'll got the other way! I dunno it works both ways but I suppose it shows people care. I'll only knock a player if they look unfit and or give little effort. JD might look knacked at times but he gave everything against Leeds.

On a side note I think refs have been much improved so far this year.

Did anyone see the game between Warrington and Hull KR on Friday. That's got to be one of the worst referee display i have seen this year. He spoilt what potentially would have been a good game. If a player would have played that bad we would all be calling for the chop and the coach would be dropping them (except for jk). The offload he said was a strip was absolutely pants. This then led to Newton been binned which never should have happened had he got first decision correct. When Fisher scored his last try Mathers slides in with the boot to try and stop him scoring which to me should have been a penalty try, Plus could have been either a red of yellow card as it was a proffesional foul but also dangerous play. The last try i am not even sure he got the ball down but Sky have seemed to have stopped showing too much after they have already been given. They never show you as much now which leads me to believe that the refs cocked it up and their trying to protect the refs a bit more. He could have used help from touch judges and video ref more but seemed to want to do it all on his own.