Big topic for me this so far this season, been quite vocal about the lack of quality and consistency from the officials . James Child's was awful officiating in the Hull Wigan first game, total lack of consistency with decisions, Connors penalty/Batemans shove to Cators face, set restarts, high tackles. Watched Saints/Huddersfield last night and he was at it again , Watson has echoed what a few of us have been seeing, my question is their a biased towards the big teams when it comes to decision making? https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/r ... ns-3229182

Big topic for me this so far this season, been quite vocal about the lack of quality and consistency from the officials . James Child's was awful officiating in the Hull Wigan first game, total lack of consistency with decisions, Connors penalty/Batemans shove to Cators face, set restarts, high tackles. Watched Saints/Huddersfield last night and he was at it again , Watson has echoed what a few of us have been seeing, my question is their a biased towards the big teams when it comes to decision making? https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/r ... ns-3229182

There is no bias.

Saints have conceded more penalties than anyone else this season and Wigan are fifth. Last year Wigan were the most penalised team and with Warrington had the most yellow cards. Three of the six most penalised players last year were from Saints or Wigan.

That said the officiating needs looking at, the game is perhaps too fast these days for one referee especially when it comes to checking offsides.

Are the 6 against counted on the penalty stats? They seem to be a big factor too this year.

Tell me there's no bias after the cannonball tackles

Powell on Griffins

Brown on hathard

Talk me through them

Jonathan Davies has just said the same

There's no bias. That doesn't mean the referees don't make bad decisions.

Why do they mainly all favour the top two? We're talking big game effecting calls that always seem to swing Wigan/saints way

The stats don't bear that out.

I'm of the opinion that this season Ref's seem to pick out 1 team (whoever that may be) and batter them with 6 again or penalties. At half time the 4th official points out just how one sided it has been and they then try to even it up in the 2nd half.

It's the inconsistency rather than been bias thats blighting the game .

No bias, just poor refs, making the game a poor watch

Refs should hardly have any impact on the game, abs that's the problem....!

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/th ... ls-crisis/ Sack Ganson

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/th ... ls-crisis/ Sack Ganson

Maybe we should stop changing the rules and guidance every 5 minutes. Give the refs a chance....!

Watch an NRL game to see how referees are assisted with technology to officiate effectively. Super League is light years behind and with little money to invest, the referees do the best they can , with no obvious bias to one team. As fans we see all 50/50 calls in our favour I am afraid. I am just as guilty of this, but I honestly do not think there is any bias in our game, just incompetence and amateurish referring.

I dont think the referees are given enough help from the linesman and we dont have enough referees to have two on the pitch.
Instead of in goal officials which are a waste of time we should trial four linesmen,each responsible for half the pitch left and right so from a fitness point they are able to keep up with play at all times and have eyes from both sides of the pitch at the point of an incident and particularly start to pull up forward passes and incorrect play the balls.They dont need to be highly qualified.

And yet it was the intervention of the Linesman that got Satae sin binned. Which I found odd, because from my viewpoint, the referee was closer and seemed to have a good view of it.

You could have twenty officials but if their all incompetant then it's irrelevant,

Sometimes you've just got to accept some people cannot do jobs properly, it's a shame super league seems to have an abundance