Did you cheer?

I'll admit I did. Was it karma?

Laughed my head off, gave him a clap when he got up though.

I make that City of Hull 2 v 0 Refs

Enjoyed seeing him booed off. Most amusing.

A performance Mr Bean would have been proud of from start to finish.

PMSL X2 The guy lost the game from the 1st (high) tackle and then went from the surreal to the ridiculous.

I cheered when he fell over, clapped and cheered when he went down and clapped, cheered and stamped my feet when he went off. It was his lack of control of the match that saw the brawls, he really isn't fit to referee.

Think you've got that wrong actually Coddy, the amount of times that refs have f..ked us over. I think it's safe to say that their well ahead, don't you.

I wonder if the RFL will manage to pin that on any of our players

Mr Hicks did very well. A performance of a real superleague official.

Remember rules are meant to be interpreted however the lead official feels like on the day.


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the last time i laughed as much as that at a rugby match was when Yemo dragged Newton to the floor like a rag doll.

Total agree But this ref performance was between Crap and Sh-t

Time for Cummings to go. If this is the standard of refereeing to come , Then the game is dead.

Christ that's a point lets hope 'Goldie' wasn't stood anywhere near him!!!

He'd still get nailed if he was stood on Brid prom having an ice cream knowing our luck

Agree it's starting to become a genuine threat. I hear so many people who are becoming disillusioned with the game as a whole because of the officiating, and if that ends up being the reason for any walking away from the game then I don't see how you'd ever get them back.

The whole officiating set up needs a complete root and branch review....yet again. There's been no improvement at all since Cummings and the refs have gone fulltime. The play the ball area is a mess and killing the game as a spectator sport like it did in the NRL a couple of years ago.

It's a real worry. It used to be that your heart would sink when you got certain referees. Now about the only one where my heart doesn't sink is Bentham...and he's crocked!! (Any news on when he may be back by the way?) Thaler, Child, Silverwood, and now Hicks and Roby all seem shockingly inadequate. It comes to something when Ganson comes near the top of your preferences.

The refs are ruining the game at the moment. the standard of officialating (sp) is at an all time low. What with the muppets on Sky and the refs it's driving me for one away from the game. I fed up of games being decided by incorrect refereeing decisions even when they go the the Video offical they still call it wrong. Forward passes are consistently ignored and why you can go to the Video for an offside but not for a forward pass is beyond me. Yes some are unclear so give the benefit to the attacking side but so many a obviously forward it brings the whole game into disrepute.
The solutions is to go to Australia and recruit 6 top referees. Yes they will require a big salary but if we don't do something to improve the situation the game is dead.

And really I dont go to gmes to have a good laugh my love of the game is to important but the Airlie Bird taking the mick out of the numpty ref was the funniest thing I have seen for ages

Comedy gold

Please name one

How about our game with Rovers at MM?

Not just our games I watch the Sky games and the standard of the officials are well below par

How was that match decided by the referee?

Even allowing for the missed forward pass, we were still 14 points up with 10 to go. That match was decided by an inability to tackle one of the slowest wingers in Superleague