Ian Smith : Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:38 am  

Was not to impressed with him last night I still thought that a couple of blatent things went against us, when we should have been awarded a penalty. Look at that play of the ball that resulted in Highams try, yes i know it seems peadantic but rules are rules, that ball clearly moved forward.
Oh well some you win some you loose.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:40 am  

I'm still not convinced with Gardner's "NO Try".

Higham's was a joke. $hite play the ball then Anderson shoves Clough out of the way, obstructing him from touching the player.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:51 am  

The ptb has been messy for years, if you penalised that one then you'd have to penalise every one of them and then everyone would be moaning about how many penalties the ref has given and how he wants to be at the centre of attention.

I slated Smith a few times at the match for a couple of decisions, and I'll watch the game in the cold light of day before I make my final judgement, but for the most part I didn't really notice him at the game which leads me to believe he didn't have the worst game

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:51 am  

I think we lost 3 or 4 games last year with Smith, hence DA's spat over his capabilitys of being superleague standard. At least he was rubbish for both teams last night, the problem is when we get him for away games, we always end up chasing the game because we don,t get any 50-50 calls.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:52 am  

You forgot the briers knock on and re-gather. Refs will always get things wrong, as they go smith is'nt a bad ref

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:14 pm  

Smith has single handedly lost us games in the past few years. He is lucky that DA has left the club and he is now allowed back to KR to ref a big team. He is a c0kc face and a bore in real life.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:21 pm  

Highams was a try though tbh, Thaler did well.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:23 pm  

Saint_Jen wrote:

Highams was a try though tbh, Thaler did well.

It didn't go to the video ref, did it ?

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:27 pm  

Highams was clearly a try. No problems at all.

Ade's try was dubious. It looked like he knocked on and to me he was also short of the line. I'd have said no try.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:32 pm  

No1_Saints _Fan wrote:

It didn't go to the video ref, did it ?

Yep.

Or, at least I think it did.