We have him Sunday.

Hull FC v Huddersfield Giants 6pm (SKY)
Ref J Child TJ M Craven TJ P Marklove RR G Stokes RTJ R Webb VR S Ganson TK R Tennant MC G Kershaw

May as well flip a coin and see who is going to win, terrible ref who's decision usually decide who wins.

Fecks sake the mans a bleedin idiot

even with child in charge ul be too good for giants hull by 16 is my fancy not sure who i thinks the best ref any more i thought halibut 2 years ago but now there all equally average i think anyway good luck

Oh No

I can handle average, but Child makes some awful decisions for both sides. I would say at the moment the 2 better refs would have to be Silverwood and Bentham. Alibert looked to be getting better last year but has gone backwards this season.

OH FFS, was looking forward to a really good match up with the Giants & a cracking play off game but that clueless numpty will pretty much ruin it.

That will be the giants lying on and on and on

we wont be getting any support from the video ref either........ganson

I'm not a ref slagger.

But Child is the exception.

He's absolutely fooking useless!

If I recall correctly he was the ref @ Huddersfield & he was bad. He was down to be he ref in the cup game a week later too, but @ the last moment he was removed because of the manner of his performance the week earlier I believe. I cannot recall any important games that Hull have won when he was in charge.

With Steve Ganson as 'back up' I think that the 'gods on Mount Olympus' are having a laugh @ our expense. Apart from the cup final @ Cardif, I cannot recall Steve Ganson either giving us a fair crack of the whip in a match.

Bad

I am not getting involved.Only get slagged off calling ref's

Thats my confidence gone then, child is a disgrace i remember last year when he cost us a game against cas.

When he was ref at the game at Huddersfield he was flaming useless and it also wont help with ganson as video ref. The RFL hates us.

i cant make it due to work..... quite glad now ha ha

think yourselves lucky, we've had Alibert for 3 home games in a row and he's been booed off at half and full time in all 3 and sunday he took shocking to a new level with the red card for O'Donnell !.

Things are bad when we start criticising the ref before the game, albeit that they are all generally of a poor standard.

But same for both sides and if we're good enough we will win regardless of Childs or Ganson.

Glad Hudds had a good result on Sunday as that should have removed any complacency that may have set in following their recent fall off a cliff form.

If a ref is poor he is normally poor for both teams it's who can adapt the best that wins.

James Child is not fit to referee at any level of RL let alone a Play off game.

one ref i didnt want was childs! never forgset that peformance at hudds where he gave penalty after penalty in favour of hudds and only 1 to us until the final minute where he gave us 2 in the last minute, just to take the p155

Then a week later in the cup game hull conceded 0 penalties to our 7 in one half, its the same for both sides really, most refs seem to make it up as they go along!

Child makes it up 'before' the game starts. He seems to have some kind of personal remit to penalise a team for one half and the change sides after halftime. I can guarantee we will see a cluster of penalties for meaningless offences and he will ignore other constant infringements.