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The match will be refereed by French official Thierry Alibert, who is in Britain on an exchange programme aimed at raising standards across Europe.

Lets hope he does raise the standards because Cummings won't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

turf posted:
Taken from www/bbc.co.uk/rugbyleague:

The match will be refereed by French official Thierry Alibert, who is in Britain on an exchange programme aimed at raising crowd standards in St Helens.

Lets hope he does raise the standards because Cummings won't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Does that mean we're sending one of our refs over to France? If it's Ganson, can he stay there, please?

What about Mr Klein? I'd rather him go than Ganson :sly: :sly: :sly: :sly:

turf posted:
Taken from www/bbc.co.uk/rugbyleague:

The match will be refereed by French official Thierry Alibert, who is in Britain on an exchange programme aimed at raising standards across Europe.

Lets hope he does raise the standards because Cummings won't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Providing he can turn a blind eye to Saints players starting fights and punching out and not seeing Saints loose fowards kicking centers senseless and making sure every 50-50 Saints decisions go their way then he will be a Knowlsley road favourite in no time at all.

turf posted:
What about Mr Klein? I'd rather him go than Ganson :sly: :sly: :sly: :sly:

I will even pay for his taxi to the airport!

I'll let you know how he gets on as I'm off to Knowsley Road this afternoon/evening.

Turf, this report is for you!!!

I only planned on watching the first 10-15 minutes of the Saints game but ended up staying until the end and taking photos of the referee with his camera, haha.

He was definately not accustomed to Super League, it's clear that French matches are totally different to SL games. I'm not saying he was a bad referee but there were certain areas of his game that any other SL referee would have pulled players up on. The Saints fans were infuriated that he wasn't overly concerned about the defensive line.

He had some interesting points to his game though, he liked to get very close to the action, on a few ocassions he was talking to players in the ruck and tapping them on the shoulder to tell them to get up cleanly.

The game was a really good game. Saints gave away two interception tries to Salford in the first half and continued to make uncharacteristic errors in the second half, they spilled the ball quite a few times whilst under no pressure and made a few dud passes. Hodgson tried a drop goal attempt from the HW line, but it was charged down. Saints also had two tries disallowed for knock-ons.

so Rob are you saying the froggey ref was crap

or just the fact that Stains are crap

OAM posted:
so Rob are you saying the froggey ref was crap

or just the fact that Stains are crap

I don't think he was SL standard, not crap though. I think this stint in the UK will have done him good though.

Saints were pretty crap in spells! Silly errors, passes to no-one, knock-ons, etc.

There's a new star at Saints though, a stand-off / fullback called Kyle Eastmond; little player, amazingly nimble on his feet. He's one of those players that looks an exciting prospect, hopefully, he'll live up to it.