Referee for Semi Final

[josie andrews]

Challenge Cup

WIGAN WARRIORS V SALFORD RED DEVILS
SUNDAY 30TH JULY
HALLIWELL JONES STADIUM
KO : 14:30

Referee: J Child

Touch Judges: J Smith M Craven

Reserve Referee: C Kendall
Reserve Touch Judge: S Kilpatrick
Video Referee: B Thaler
M Com: A Barnby
Time Keeper: F Hawley

[captinjack]

Oh joy F**king James Child. RFL must have thought how can we make it hard work for Wigan to get to Wembley? Surprised they have not put BENT ham as video ref.????

[jobo]

In the greater scheme of things, Child's isn't imo too bad. Maybe a tad over zealous but reasonable.

[BriH]

My worst nightmare come true!

[Nezza Faz]

You can count any favouritism out - he had a bottle thrown at him at the AJ Bell stadium recently ! So Salford fans probably just as dismayed.

What I think about him, is he starts off to be fair to both sides, but then "something" happens on field and he either has no support from his Touch judges, or simply not the skill and ability to handle those situations, and then he simply loses it and dishes out penalties to try and compensate, which annoys players, coaches and fans the same.

Lets hope none of this affects the result on Sunday.

[shaunedwardsfanclub]

I though that Bentham had a good game today.

[moto748]

I though that Bentham had a good game today.

He was OK, but as I've said before, whether a game flows smoothly or is a constant whistle-fest is 90% down to the players, not the ref.

[Southern Softy]

I though that Bentham had a good game today.

He was OK, but as I've said before, whether a game flows smoothly or is a constant whistle-fest is 90% down to the players, not the ref.

He had a shaky start but did OK for the rest of the match. Certainly the players helped by not conceding penalties but fair play to him.
The big worry is the rubbish camera coverage by BBC. I'm fairly sure that Hall's second try was legit but you could hear Hicks in the Video Box saying that the pictures were blurred, there were only 2 angles and he gave the try because he couldn't see any reason not to on Bentham's original call, not because he could clearly see it was a try.
All that and John (I won something 100 years ago) Kear makes you understand why Sky needs to keep control of SL.

[yokozuna]

Ref has been Salford's best player.

[Warrior Gilfedder]

Ref has been Salford's best player.

Video ref as well