Re: referee v leeds : Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:44 am  

Bonzo wrote:

If you know and understand the laws of the game it's not that difficult to see where they have been incorrectly enforced, regardless of which team you support and regardless of the result. Indeed refereeing is not simply about knowing the Laws of the Game, it's also about managing the players and using common sense. I can nominate numerous occasions on which we've benefitted from incorrect calls, but unfortunately can name many more where they've gone against us, more often than not in the last couple of years with the afforementioned Mr Child in charge. Coincidence?

I will give you one guess who has penalised leeds the most?

Looking at child's usual performance he had a pretty good game on Friday.

Re: referee v leeds : Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:48 am  

sgtwilko wrote:

I will give you one guess who has penalised leeds the most?

Looking at child's usual performance he had a pretty good game on Friday.

He did for Leeds. He got some key calls wrong in your favour though - probably because he seems to interpret certain laws differently to what 99% of the RL world do. To be honest I was pretty narked after the game and expected to watch it again on Saturday morning with a clear head and see that I'd been wrong. As it happened I wasn't and picked up a few more errors to boot.

Re: referee v leeds : Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:53 am  

Bonzo wrote:

He did for Leeds. He got some key calls wrong in your favour though - probably because he seems to interpret certain laws differently to what 99% of the RL world do. To be honest I was pretty narked after the game and expected to watch it again on Saturday morning with a clear head and see that I'd been wrong. As it happened I wasn't and picked up a few more errors to boot.

It was strange to not see him ping Leeds time after time after time after time whilst letting the other team do exactly what Leeds were getting pinged for.

Child has hammered Leeds from his first match. i make no apologies if we got the rub of the green whilst he had the whistle.

Re: referee v leeds : Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:28 pm  

sgtwilko wrote:

It was strange to not see him ping Leeds time after time after time after time whilst letting the other team do exactly what Leeds were getting pinged for.

I know exactly what you mean. He seems to have gone from one extreme to the other though now. Where he used to penalise everything, and I mean everything; now he seems afraid to penalise anything obvious yet you'll then get a penalty that leaves the entire stadium (along with pinky and perky when on TV) entirely confused about why it's actually been awarded.

For what it's worth it was a credit to both teams that they went out there and played a fast, clean game on Friday because there was absolutely no controlling of the ruck whatsoever. This was evident on a few occasions where players, attempting to regain their feet, were pushed back down yet it was overlooked - clear penalties if you ask me. Child will be a dream referee for Drabford this season when they get him!

Re: referee v leeds : Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:01 pm  

Bonzo wrote:

Where he used to penalise everything, and I mean everything

Remember the magic weekend game, where he awarded 35 penalties in a Cas vs Wakey game? Totally ruined it as a spectacle and earned himself a few weeks running the line if I recall correctly.

Re: referee v leeds : Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:22 am  

bren2k wrote:

Remember the magic weekend game, where he awarded 35 penalties in a Cas vs Wakey game? Totally ruined it as a spectacle and earned himself a few weeks running the line if I recall correctly.

Aye, and he spent as much time on the pitch flapping his flag about about trying to get the attention of the referee so that he could unnecessarily interfere more than any other linesman I've ever seen.

He needs a long stint in the Championship if you ask me

Re: referee v leeds : Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:50 pm  

Big Man wrote:

Aye, and he spent as much time on the pitch flapping his flag about about trying to get the attention of the referee so that he could unnecessarily interfere more than any other linesman I've ever seen.

He needs a long stint in the Yorkshire League if you ask me

Corrected.

Re: referee v leeds : Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:56 pm  

I thought he had a fairly decent game. The first Hall try was not double movement as someone has to be tackling him for it to be so.

The "knock on" was in my opinion harsh - I would have hated it being called against Leeds - but there was no proof that the ball actually went forwards from the hands of Hardaker.

I thought Hood was lucky not to go to the video, but on the angle it showed on either the SLS or Boots'n'all it was on the line.

Re: referee v leeds : Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:44 pm  

west_leeds_rhino wrote:

The "knock on" was in my opinion harsh - I would have hated it being called against Leeds

No chance of that happening mate

As for hoods try it was on the line but only after he made a double movement.

Re: referee v leeds : Thu Mar 08, 2012 4:29 pm  

west_leeds_rhino wrote:

The "knock on" was in my opinion harsh - I would have hated it being called against Leeds - but there was no proof that the ball actually went forwards from the hands of Hardaker.

Lets be honest, most ball that touched a hand and hits the ground is usually 99.9% of the time call as a knock on.
It does bug me does that, a knock on used to be when the ball came off a player and WENT FORWARD.....not sideways or backwards but forward.

So for consistancy that should have been a knock on as it went sideways, depends imo on the mood of the ref on the day