Eseh no case to answer.

Atoni 1 match ban.

No bans for any Catalans players from about half a dozen incidents reviewed.

Cannon ball tackles permitted now? What did Atoni do? Gulity of not suffering from a career threatening injury?

I thought Atoni had a very good game against Catalan and got stuck in. I think it was that tackle Infront of the boxes well into the second half. Great cover tackle and smashed the player. Looked legal to me so did the one Esse got a yellow for. The clown reffing just seemed to want to penalise us for every tackle that their players purported to be injured, irrespective of legality.

You’re certainly right about the referee.
He was a total clown intimidated by Tomkins mouthing to him all the game.
Some of his decisions I just did not understand.
He robbed us of at least one if not two tries.

I don't know what the championship refs are like, but I will be glad to see the back of Kendell, Jack Smith and Aaron Moore.

Some say they are even worse in that league but I am not too sure. You are right about Tomkins too, him and others seem to control many of the SL refs as if they were their puppets.

Having spent the last 3 seasons watching L1 and championship games every week, you will be horrified at the standard of refereeing and linesman, plus there are no in goal judges so plenty gets missed/made up, the amount of tries chalked off because the time the ref gets to where the player has scored, they are held up, I reckon it’s at least one every game.

Just the same as SL then, because touch judges are still poor and Kendell is the world's master at getting things missed and making things up

It’s not the same, it’s far far worse. Fortunately the decisions don’t usually effect the end result, but the standards are terrible, at least the fines are smaller and less cases find their way to the panel

Rediculous that we lost Eseh and it shouldn’t have even been penalty let alone a card. Shocking officiating tbh.

As for Atoni. It’s a joke if it was that tackle in second half as it looked a good strong dominant tackle.

Whether the one vs Atoni was above the knee or not it was a cowardly tackle from the side while he was stood up. I thought the outlawed that.

Amazed but not surprised no Catalans player banned.

Like I said previously big Dave took 2 or 3 of them sort of tackles and wouldn't surprise me if that's how he got injured.
The RFL are totally to blame for this blatantly ignoring the Asiata tackles.

They were out for big Dave. They flopped on him and were roughhousing him a lot they second half round his neck etc.

A few times Fifita gestured to the referee who just allowed it to happen. As you say wouldn’t surprise me if it’s how he picked his injury up.

Let’s face it, the standard of refereeing is atrocious. Not only has the standard of SL dropped dramatically over the last 10 years, refereeing has follows suit. The interpretation by some refs is beyond boggling. Until the sport can afford a bunker style system like in the NRL, it will only get worse unfortunately. Don’t get me started on the judiciary, Morgan Knowles getting off last year for example was a disgrace, at the 3rd attempt.

The difference is Saints and a few others don't just sit back and meekly accept things, they scream and fight and usually get their way. We just seem to sit back and suck it up. I am certain that if Saints were continually having to suffer the 'Kendell treatment' they would not stand it and do something about it.

I said exactly the same the other day, to a poster on RWB Army.

Aye, good point. ‘Kendall Treatment’ sounds worse than water boarding.