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Catalans Dragons v Bradford Bulls 2.30pm (BBC 2)
Ref S Ganson TJ R Cowling TJ S Wright VR T Alibert RR TBC MC I Ollerton

What a joke.

That's us out of the cup as the cheating ........................................

But we're on the telly? That's good

We went to the Isle of Man for the RL Charity Shield. There was a pub with a free juke box; my mate put some god awful Rod Stewart song on 40 times just before we left. You remind me of that.

That'll mean Ganson will try and steal the show

Has anyone read Peacocks' book?

There's a passage in there about the Widnes game, at home in '05. You know, the one where we witnessed probably one of the worst refereeing performances in SL.
Ganson had given penalty after penalty to Widnes but eventualy we had possession.
Now I can't remember the exact wording but it went something like this:

Ganson: "Come on Jamie sort X out or I'll penalise you"
JP: "But we've got the ball, you can't penalise us"
Ganson: "Watch me"

He then gave a penalty to Widnes for some obscure infringement!!

That always sticks in my mind everytime we have Ganson now.

Sailing ??

If that is true then it is truly appalling.
Ganson has always been dire for us. Why? When did it start? Did he get a hard time once or something?

There's plenty to go at. Unlike the Faces who were excellent.

Ganson and the Bulls goes back to a cold Wednesday night at Odsal in 1997 when we played the Oldham Bears and Ganson was the referee (the first time we had ever had the cheating ....)


The early days

1998 Warrington at home (gave Wire loads of penalties and nearly cost us the game)

1998 Hull at home (sent Robbie Paul & Bradley to the sin bin for throwing the ball away, Hull players does it and nothing gets done)

1999 Castleford away (sent Anderson off in the 18-18 draw, replays showed he did nothing wrong)

2000 Warrington away (sends big Mac off and Lowes to the sin in mass brawl) We lead 32-12 at half time and lose 44-32 as Ganson gives every thing but money to Wire in the second half

2000 Wakefield away (gives just about every penalty in the RFL rule book to Wakefield as we lose 16-12)

Step a bit forward . . ..

2005 Widnes at home (25-25, need I say no more) Stuart Duffy in the press room after thematch shows the press some interesting stats that show that Ganson gives more penalties against the Bulls then any other team.

2007 Leeds at home (fails to send Brent Webb off for a shocking head high tackle), costs us the game as Donald scores off a mile forward pass in the last two minutes

2007 Cardiff (Cheated and robbed of two points)

2007 Wigan away (gives Pies a 13-4 penalty count as we lose 25-1icon_cool.gif

2007 Wakefield at home (sends big Joe off as we just hold on for a 36-24 win)


2008 Huddersfield away (yet again two players in the sin bin and a red card to Paul sykes who calls him a cheat at the full time hooter of which Ganson robs us of a chance to draw as we go down 25-24)

2009 Huddersfield at home (same old Ganson as he misses a shocking Huddersfiedl knock-on that leads to atry and rules out two Bradford tries)


I could post more but the thought makes me sick

Python Lee Jackson were better, my favourite "one hit wonder"

Don't read the post then

Have to disagree.

It was a quite pleasant Friday evening when we played the Oldham Bears at Odsal in 1997.

In a broken dream, unlike Mick who is like a bleedin broken record.

I didn't. I just assumed what you'd typed.

Super League Regular Rds:

97 Bradford 48 ....... Oldham 26 ....... Steve Ganson
97 Sheffield 12 ...... Bradford 32 ...... Steve Ganson
09-Aug-98 ….. SL 3-16 ….. Bradford 38 ….. Hull 18 ….. Steve Ganson
13-Sep-98 ….. SL 3-21 ….. Bradford 36 ….. Warrington 8 ….. Steve Ganson
03-May-99 ….. SL 4-08 ….. Castleford 18 ….. Bradford 18 ….. Steve Ganson
08-Aug-99 ….. SL 4-22 ….. Bradford 30 ….. Gateshead 14 ….. Steve Ganson
28-May-00 ….. SL 5-12 ….. Warrington 42 ….. Bradford 32 ….. Steve Ganson
03-Sep-00 ….. SL 5-26 ….. Halifax 18 ….. Bradford 25 ….. Steve Ganson
15-Jul-01 ….. SL 6-19 ….. Bradford 44 ….. Castleford 4 ….. Steve Ganson
26-Aug-01 ….. SL 6-25 ….. Bradford 56 ….. Castleford 30 ….. Steve Ganson
29-Apr-02 ….. SL 7-08 ….. Bradford 44 ….. Salford 18 ….. Steve Ganson
23-Jun-02 ….. SL 7-15 ….. Salford 10 ….. Bradford 48 ….. Steve Ganson
04-Jul-02 ….. SL 7-17 ….. Bradford 44 ….. Widnes 6 ….. Steve Ganson
02-Aug-02 ….. SL 7-21 ….. Bradford 46 ….. Leeds 18 ….. Steve Ganson
25-Aug-02 ….. SL 7-24 ….. Castleford 44 ….. Bradford 14 ….. Steve Ganson
14-Sep-02 ….. SL 7-27 ….. Bradford 32 ….. Wigan 14 ….. Steve Ganson
20-Sep-02 ….. SL 7-28 ….. Hull 18 ….. Bradford 32 ….. Steve Ganson
11-May-03 ….. SL 8-09 ….. Bradford 30 ….. Castleford 10 ….. Steve Ganson
08-Jun-03 ….. SL 8-13 ….. Hull 20 ….. Bradford 26 ….. Steve Ganson
11-Jul-03 ….. SL 8-18 ….. Halifax 12 ….. Bradford 60 ….. Steve Ganson
27-Jul-03 ….. SL 8-20 ….. Castleford 20 ….. Bradford 40 ….. Steve Ganson
25-Aug-03 ….. SL 8-24 ….. Wigan 26 ….. Bradford 12 ….. Steve Ganson
07-Sep-03 ….. SL 8-26 ….. Bradford 22 ….. Leeds 21 ….. Steve Ganson
08-Apr-04 ….. SL 9-05 ….. Leeds 26 ….. Bradford 18 ….. Steve Ganson
25-Jul-04 ….. SL 9-20 ….. Bradford 44 ….. London 16 ….. Steve Ganson
30-Aug-04 ….. SL 9-25 ….. Hull 12 ….. Bradford 26 ….. Steve Ganson
13-Feb-05 ….. SL 10-01 ….. Bradford 16 ….. Wakefield 28 ….. Steve Ganson
25-Feb-05 ….. SL 10-03 ….. Wigan 27 ….. Bradford 28 ….. Steve Ganson
22-Apr-05 ….. SL 10-11 ….. Bradford 40 ….. Wigan 8 ….. Steve Ganson
22-May-05 ….. SL 10-14 ….. Bradford 24 ….. Warrington 44 ….. Steve Ganson
19-Jun-05 ….. SL 10-18 ….. Bradford 25 ….. Widnes 25 ….. Steve Ganson
18-Apr-06 ….. SL 11-10 ….. Bradford 52 ….. Huddersfield 18 ….. Steve Ganson
05-May-06 ….. SL 11-13 ….. Hull 28 ….. Bradford 12 ….. Steve Ganson
26-May-06 ….. SL 11-15 ….. Bradford 0 ….. Leeds 30 ….. Steve Ganson
23-Jun-06 ….. SL 11-18 ….. Bradford 42 ….. Huddersfield 16 ….. Steve Ganson
04-Aug-06 ….. SL 11-23 ….. Bradford 50 ….. Warrington 22 ….. Steve Ganson
08-Sep-06 ….. SL 11-27 ….. Bradford 12 ….. Wakefield 20 ….. Steve Ganson
05-Apr-07 ….. SL 12-08 ….. Bradford 14 ….. Leeds 18 ….. Steve Ganson
06-May-07 ….. SL 12-13 ….. Bradford (N) 38 ….. Leeds (N) 42 ….. Steve Ganson
06-Jul-07 ….. SL 12-19 ….. Wigan 25 ….. Bradford 18 ….. Steve Ganson
05-Aug-07 ….. SL 12-22 ….. Bradford 38 ….. Wakefield 24 ….. Steve Ganson
20-Mar-08 ….. SL 13-07 ….. Leeds 44 ….. Bradford 2 ….. Steve Ganson
06-Jul-08 ….. SL 13-20 ….. Huddersfield 25 ….. Bradford 24 ….. Steve Ganson
27-Feb-09 ….. SL 14-03 ….. Bradford 12 ….. Huddersfield 16 ….. Steve Ganson

Super League Play Offs:


02-Oct-04 ….. SL 9 - QSF ….. Leeds 12 ….. Bradford 26 ….. Steve Ganson
16-Oct-04 ….. SL 9 - GF ….. Bradford 8 ….. Leeds 16 ….. Steve Ganson
01-Oct-05 ….. SL 10 - ESF ….. Bradford 71 ….. Hull 0 ….. Steve Ganson
21-Sep-07 ….. SL 12 - EPO ….. Bradford 30 ….. Wigan 31 ….. Steve Ganson

Thank you Tvoc

making excuses already. ganson is consistently and unbiasedly e

You get used to it with Mick around.

He'll make the same statement every week providing it's anyone refereeing except Gareth Hewer.

Just nod politely and carry on

I say we get him on Trisha and let the interrogaters see if he is

a) a cheat
b) hates the Bulls
c) knew that Tansey was offside and in front and just thought I'll rob the Bulls
d) all of the above

SL Regular Rounds: With Ganson (98 to date)

Bradford Played 42, Won 25, Drawn 2, Lost 15, :1k8wv8ls62% :1k8wv8ls

SL Regular Rounds: Without Ganson (96 to 200icon_cool.gif

Bradford Played 305, Won 221, Drawn 8, Lost 76, :1k8wv8ls74%

God I wish I had thread lock powers right now.....

Why ???

Saddo has 6 pages on the same subject on VT.

Im no mathematician but even I'm sure that's not quite right!