I understand what you're saying RR and I would never accuse an official of bias (except when I was a wee lad and didn't know better)..HOWEVER, when you have three officials and at least one of them has an obviously good sight of an incident/infringement and yet does nothing or does not alert the referee to said incident when it is so obviously clear that the infringement did happen you start to question their competence and on occasion when the rules aren't 'seemingly' being applied equally their impartiality.

It does make you wonder how they are influenced (sub conscious and conscious bias, known phenomena), what they are being instructed to look for, what aspect of the rules are there for a wider interpretation (seemingly random application of the rules even within a 40 minute half never mind seperate games) and indeed are these things 'let go' just because of the fear of not letting the game flow because it looks bad on TV?

IF more incidents were pulled up - forward passes are often a shocker, or offsides/PTB messing about penalised to a greater extent (which for me is spoiling the game hugely) and keep that in place ad infinitum then the coaches/players would have to clean up their act or be penalised out of the game.
The RFL are also not helping matters by not supporting people to get into officating properly, an ex match commisioner on here told the story of how things are and it's not a good situation.
The end result is a very small pool of officials and very little scope to improve not just individuals but the officiating system as a whole

Excellent post , I doubt any of them are biased in any way, just crap all round
However i am sure your all aware the hottest topic in Oz right now is exactly the same thing and how many fans are being forced away because they spoil the game
take a look at the incident with Jammer last week , unbelievable, that was the most shocking refs display you will ever see so its the same all over..

"Forced away"....lol. Nobody has or ever will be forced away..pathetic divas.

Refs can and do spoil some games.IMO one of the best matches to be ref was the 2005 cc final .yes we won but the ref just let the game flow. To often we see fouls committed and nothing done then all of a sudden he starts blowing up

By some maritime...you are joking....he didn't police the 10 at all....failed to go to the screen on their 1st try when Ah Van knocked on and yet he played all on,the Rankin " ball steal" which wasn't so there is a 10 pt swing and he even allowed the 2 square markers to jump out and tackle Houghton.