Ref for Friday : Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:02 pm  

S**t

Ref R Silverwood
TJ J Child TJ R Hicks
RR M Craven
VR I Smith
TK G Kershaw
MC P Crashley

Re: Ref for Friday : Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:08 pm  

irrelevant
didn't we win @ Bradford + Wembley itsself during our cup run, with him reffing both games

Re: Ref for Friday : Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:09 pm  

Still now the best though is he lefty?

Re: Ref for Friday : Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:12 pm  

Think we only need to worry about him when we are playing saints.

Re: Ref for Friday : Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:34 pm  

I think we should stop worrying about refs now. We have two live games per week, every week. We have more exposure in the media than ever before, so refs can't really get away with bad performances/ "shennanigans" ie bent performances. Yes they get things wrong, but not the extent of yesteryear.

A lot of you younger posters (God, that makes me sound old) are spoilt with some reasonable refereeing performances. You should have had to put up with some of the "questionable" "performances" of the likes of
Fred Lindop
Ronnie Campbell
Gerry Kershaw
Billy Thompson
Robin Whitfield
and the despicable John Smith (a very bitter man), that I did, from a young age. These were in the days when RL was only fleetingly shown on Grandstand, and refs could do what ever they wanted, whoever to.

Honestly, the current crop are a hell of a lot better compared with what we had 20-30 years ago.

Re: Ref for Friday : Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:36 pm  

lefty goldblatt wrote:

irrelevant
didn't we win @ Bradford + Wembley itsself during our cup run, with him reffing both games

Include the semi final in that list.

Re: Ref for Friday : Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:41 pm  

lefty goldblatt wrote:

I think we should stop worrying about refs now. We have two live games per week, every week. We have more exposure in the media than ever before, so refs can't really get away with bad performances/ "shennanigans" ie bent performances. Yes they get things wrong, but not the extent of yesteryear.

A lot of you younger posters (God, that makes me sound old) are spoilt with some reasonable refereeing performances. You should have had to put up with some of the "questionable" "performances" of the likes of
Fred Lindop
Ronnie Campbell
Gerry Kershaw
Billy Thompson
Robin Whitfield
and the despicable John Smith (a very bitter man), that I did, from a young age. These were in the days when RL was only fleetingly shown on Grandstand, and refs could do what ever they wanted, whoever to.

Honestly, the current crop are a hell of a lot better compared with what we had 20-30 years ago.

Well said. Though you missed out my personal 'fave' the one and only John Holdsworth (Kippax).

Re: Ref for Friday : Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:54 pm  

worthing wire wrote:

:CLAP:

Well said. Though you missed out my personal 'fave' the one and only John Holdsworth (Kippax).

I never thought the "suntanned" one was that bad, Worthing. He just liked being the centre of attention (a la Ganson, these days).

Re: Ref for Friday : Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:15 am  

dont trust silverpud..hes shafted us in the past

Re: Ref for Friday : Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:48 am  

If anyone's bothered I dreamt that we got battered by Wakefield, and Kev Penny scored a hat-trick.

Fortunately I woke up before the final hooter, but it was 48-0 at half-time.