Referee. What Referee

[Deltic3]

When are the RFL going to sit up and take notice about the appalling standard of referees?

Last nite was ruined by that cheat in the middle of the pitch. As was earlier posted you cannot blame bradford as they used the ref to their advantage. Whatever we did we were pulled up for but bradford got away with everything - if the situation had been reversed noble would have been calling for the ref to be shot but we just take it.

It is about time that all the fans of every club got together to say to the RFL we are not going to take this shodddy refereeing anymore! I walked off the game last nite feeling like i had been mugged and a couple of bulls fans agreed.

All fans are sick to death of refs ruining the games - and that is why attendances are dropping ( even though the RFL say otherwise). We should petition stuart cummings to show that the people that matter want something doing.

LAST NITE WAS THE FINAL STRAW!

[John M]

I doubt Cummings would bother.If i remember rightly Cummings used to act as an extra player for Saints when he was a ref.Its only since he got the top job that things have gone backwards.Wasnt he sent into the NFP to ref their games after some bad displays in SL?
Theres always going to be the odd dodgy decision but last night it was one after the other with 95% of them going to Bradford.We are now getting to a stage where the refs are actually dominating the games and actually providing a winner and a loser.

[captinjack]

I have just finished watching the video of last nights game, I couldn't bring myself to watch it before. The refereeing display by Ian Smith was far worse when watched throught he tv cameras. Bradford played the ref as 14th man. How Noble can say his team played well i don't know, why did he not tell the truth, the big ignorant Yorkshire Pudding, that his team were given the game by a total one sided refereeing displey. Just wait until our squad is fully fit we'll serve up the bulls for burgers. Another thing I noticed, when Craig Smith was being helped from the field the majority of the bulls fans did not clap him off, many cheered, from where I sit we could hear them. No matter which team a player plays for they always get clapped of the field when they are injured by fair minded rugby league fans, which the bulls fans are not, they are scum, worse than the saints fans. Just one more thing I think Stuart Raper is doing a great job with what he has to work with. Who is to blame for the situation we are in Uncle Maurice.

[wolftown warrior]

that`s exactly what i thought when i watched the tape this morning.. on my drive home i was cussing the ref, but u just put it down to u wanting ur side to have the advantage, but watching the match back!!
come on.. someone send the tape to the RFL or something...

total joke.........

( and before someone points out, it isn`t because we lost.. every game i have seen this year we have been playing against 14. we have made similar comments when we won earlier in the year, so it isn`t a case of sore losers.. )

[warrior]

i couldnt agree more with everybody. that was the worst standard of decision making ive ever seen. ian smith makes steve ganson look like the best referee in super league. have i been on another planet since the new rules came in but since when has the rules stated that off sides were ok in play the ball and also double movements over the try line were aceptable. talk about being robbed. how can brian noble be proud of the way his team won last night. the only reason we didnt win last night was because we played fair. if cheating is how you start winning games im glad i dont support any of them yorkshire teams

[hopalong]

agree with everbody ian smith was biased,basically cheated. when i was leaving ground a couple of bulls fans said that ainscough should have had another try, but he was held back.