Re: Gareth Hock : Sun Jun 21, 2015 6:27 pm  

Thought Hock had a cracking game on the whole and showed tremendous restraint not to react to getting a thump to the back of the head when his back was turned.

Re: Gareth Hock : Sun Jun 21, 2015 6:42 pm  

I've never been a Hock fan and thought his signing was a mistake, thought when he 1st got here he didn't do much but now something seems to have clicked with him. Was great at Whitehaven, did a lot of work at Bately and was outstanding today. Hopefully that'll carry on. RFL need to have a word with refs now though, 2 weeks in a row he's been sin binned for getting hit, teams are going to notice how easy it is to get him sin binned when he's done nothing wrong.

Re: Gareth Hock : Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:00 pm  

I have to agree. Hock was a different fella today!! In all aspects.

Was it really him? lol

Good luck, Gaz. More of the same please.

Re: Gareth Hock : Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:16 pm  

I have been a defender of referees more out of habit than anything else but I have got to admit that the ref & his so called assistants got the key calls wrong today. The red card killed the game as a contest as Sheffield are a team that like to play Rugby but were handicapped almost immediately. There certainly didn't seem much wrong from the North Stand view, there was no demanding of action from the crowd just the usual booing after the card and comments like, "what was that for". The Hock yellow was pathetic, purely based on reputation rather than action, I hope the panel have the balls to say 'yellow card unwarranted" rather than "yellow card sufficient". The late hit and the lack of reaction from the clown with the yellow flag should see him sacked.
A good family day out ruined, despite the result.

Re: Gareth Hock : Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:52 pm  

reffy wrote:

I have been a defender of referees more out of habit than anything else but I have got to admit that the ref & his so called assistants got the key calls wrong today. The red card killed the game as a contest as Sheffield are a team that like to play Rugby but were handicapped almost immediately. There certainly didn't seem much wrong from the North Stand view, there was no demanding of action from the crowd just the usual booing after the card and comments like, "what was that for". The Hock yellow was pathetic, purely based on reputation rather than action, I hope the panel have the balls to say 'yellow card unwarranted" rather than "yellow card sufficient". The late hit and the lack of reaction from the clown with the yellow flag should see him sacked.
A good family day out ruined, despite the result.

Don't think the red card could be complained about, happened in front of me. Was a spear tackle long after the ball had been dropped. So a spear tackle off the ball basically. Thought the ref started really well, put a stop to the rough stuff with the red and held the players back a good 10 m then seemed to loose all consistency and thus control of the game.

Re: Gareth Hock : Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:59 pm  

Fair enough on the red, you were nearer than me.

Re: Gareth Hock : Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:34 pm  

Fair play reffy, it's good to to see that you are not blinkered for the ref for a change.

Re: Gareth Hock : Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:50 pm  

Red card spoilt what could have been a very good contest. Or should I say Cory Aston spoilt the contest.

It happened right in front of us too.


And let's not forget (just because we won well) the referee was terrible. He really was.

And I don't often criticise refs.

Re: Gareth Hock : Sun Jun 21, 2015 9:08 pm  

And the touch judges also ant..Few occasions when they could/should have intervened but stood there glaring into space.

Re: Gareth Hock : Sun Jun 21, 2015 9:18 pm  

Hock is showing what a damn good player he is.
I hope the club can mention to the ref's controller the incorrect sin binning of Gareth today as aside from it sending out so many wrong signals I think some clarification that Gareth is being treated on what he actually does on the pitch now and not what he did at previous clubs is required.