Ganson is a fool as we all know. His poorest call of the night was blowing his whistle for a 20m re start when Tom Briscoe caught a high kick in goal. Ganson then asking the VR to see if Tom had jumped from the field of play or not. Yes he did as the VR confirmed but no one tackled Tom in goal to force the drop out! So the mistake was Ganson's for blowing to early, so why the hell was a drop out awarded? Should have been a scrum or handover on the 10m.
He is our best ref though.... Honest!!!

Double Post - SNIP

The abridged web version states:

Accidental 2. If, after knocking-on accidentally, the player knocking-on regains or kicks the ball before it touches the ground, a goal post, cross bar or an opponent, then play shall be allowed to proceed.
Otherwise play shall stop and a scrum shall be formed except after the fifth play-the-ball.

Now did Houghton regather before it hit the ground or as it hit the ground?

The point here is that Houghton did put the ball on the ground whilst moving forward - which would be a knock on. His earlier attempts to ragather the ball weren't a knock on - but after gathering it - he propeeled the ball forward on the ground - the detailed laws book has greater annotation and definitions than the website and I will look it up later.

I think he would have needed to sub himself for incompetence if he'd done that. Briscoe (it appeared) went with the first call, by Ganson himself, before he got the word in the ear

thats the way i saw it too, i thought we were hard done to on that as if Ganson hadn't called it Briscoe had the chance to make good yards away from his line as nobody had gotten hands on him and with the way he was playing who knows where he'd have ended up, i know once Gamson got the call he gave the right decision but if he'd not blown in the first place it wouldn't have happened!

As for the knock on, in real time it looked like a knock on and in slow motion it was dubious so, in fairness, it's probably unfair on Ganson to suggest it was a bad mistake.

The Briscoe catching the ball when out of the field of play was again a very close call and could have gone either way (assuming I am correct in thinking that had he been standing out of play when he caught the ball it would have been a 20:20 restart).

I think he had an okay game but not one of his better games.