It would appear that Luke Gale has now joined the elite band, Along with Tomkins, Wellens, Brough, Wilkins and Sinfield et al. He takes on a dual roll of player/referee. Every incident that went Trinity's way he contested and protested to Hewer. On one occasion, after Gale had a word with the referee, Hewer even changed his decision on who had the scrum feed. Alas, it backfired as on another occasion he protested just a little too much and was penalised himself.

He's another of those players that you just love to hate.

Added to the verbals, he is often seen touching the refs, but no action ever follows

Whenever a team mate gets tackled looks like a wig wearing windmill.

Is he related to Eddie by the way

Agree with what has been said but he always rips us apart when we play against him, we never seem to get near him.

Only recently. He was often on his backside when he was at London.

It isnt just Gale.

It has been a fault of ours a while giving opposing playmakers time on the ball.

How often have our playmakers been flattened in recent years compared to other sides. I am not here condoning foul play but we never pressurise kickers and always let them run at us

Give the kid a break FFS!. It must be tough losing your hair at such a young age then being unable to hide it behind a blend of regulation cut and comb over.

Don't worry.it won't belong before he has that Rab C Nessbitt thing going on!!!

his hair didn't hamper his goalkicking from the touchline, did it ?

what was liams excuse.??

Jesus you lot hit an all time low I know you have nothing to chear about especially beaten out of side by side who was no were near best with half of team out injured you pick on Luke gale hair and talking to reff he is captain you know you after swap half your team to get him including slow coach Johnson .

Just to keep this thread going in the same school play-ground theme - I would like to add the following:-

[size=150Liam Finn is bald so there[/size

Ner-ner-ner-ner-ner.

Gale and Miller seemed to be getting on well.

Cant see what the fuss is about here.
Every good captain knows how to "play" the ref.
Whether this helps their team is another question and it's up to the all officials not to get intimidated or influenced by players.
As for Gale, he should have been the GB scrum half ahead of Smith, all day long and has an excellent rugby brain.
As for the hair style, it's probably a fair swap for his RL attributes but, it's a close run thing

I'll give you a bit of inside info that will really float your boat.
Denny Solomona has a few wonky teeth - don't mention it to him though because he gets a bit embarrassed.

A couple of dregs crawling out of the sewer I see.

In all seriousness, wasn't Gale the captain? Therefore can't Captains approach the ref? I wish ours did more often.

Yeah been captain since week 2 with Shenton out for the season, that said, i would give it straight back to shenny upon his return.

Personally I'm not a big fan of how players approach the ref these days, captain or not, and Gale falls into the category of it being a bit of a whinge rather than asking for clarification. As good as he has been for Cas I still can't really take to him; he's "too Leeds" for my liking!

If you have a word with Powell, you can send him over t'hill, we'll look after him for you

Did he ever play for Leeds? Went through the academy I believe.

Please elaborate

Of course the captain can approach the referee, but it was every decision that Hewer made. He wouldn't leave him alone and chased him all over the field. Even when Hewer had made his final decision he still carried on nagging the guy. He was embarrassing!!

Finny's embraced his baldness though.......Gale just need to whip what's left off.

Yes - got to agree with that. I'll have a word with him next time I see him. I'll tell him his comb-over is upsetting a few Wakey fans.

Perfectly reasonable for the Captain to speak to the ref in my view - but it is annoying to see any player moaning and yelling at the official; that said, the ref has the authority to deal with that kind of behaviour, so if he chooses not to, he only has himself to blame. I don't like to use Robert Hicks as an example of good practice, but he dealt fairly robustly at the weekend, when a Leigh player started the game by yelling at him over every decision - so it can be done.

As for his hairdo - no middle aged man should mock that affliction; it comes to us all, and is just one of the cruel blows dealt to men by nature as the years advance; women have it comparatively easy I'd say.

All this has nothing to do with Gale and everything to do with the spineless individuals and their bosses who now run this game. It's up to the Ref to penalise players who abuse him or don't respect his rulings - the sanctions are there, but most refs just seem to want to be the players "mates" especially if those players are a bit famous.

It's on'y a matter of time before the Refs starter asking players for selfies.

We don't have any players called Johnson