GANSON : Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:50 am  

GANSON GANSON GANSON

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 ........................................

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:17 am  

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

Re: GANSON : Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:51 am  

Mick Gledhill wrote:

GANSON GANSON GANSON

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 ........................................

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.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:10 am  

Roofaldo wrote:

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

That'll mean Ganson will try and steal the show

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:24 am  

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.

Re: GANSON : Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:40 am  

tigertot wrote:

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.

Sailing ??

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:15 am  

Wigan Bull wrote:

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.

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?

Re: GANSON : Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:16 am  

Steam Pig wrote:

Sailing ??

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

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:56 am  

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 25-18)

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

Re: GANSON : Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:01 pm  

tigertot wrote:

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

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