Appreciate that, I've stated on another post if I was a Wigan supporter I'd have been embarrassed with the amount of border line decisions given to Wigan as opposed to Salford. It was blatantly one-sided.



I was level with Holdsworths kick to Williams in the first half and I'm convinced Williams was onside, so much so I stood and ranted and raved and nearly ripped the stitches I have in my back out. That decision completely swung the game away from Salford albeit I thought Wigan were the better side and would have won in any event.

A definate no. If your rule came into play i reckon you would see more foul play and more penalties which means the referee would blow more constantly resulting in less flowing rugby league. If you abolish the kick for touch it benefits the defending team not the attacking team. IMO foul and idle play deserves penalising, if it means scoring on the back of penalties, so be it ( sort your discipline out ) I don.t want to poke a hornets nest here but Child's can't be wrong with every decision he's made, there were obviously ill disciplined foul and idle play committed by salford last night. Maybe it is time for 2 referees due to the increased fitness levels required and the off the ball happenings what are being missed.

I don't think you need 2 referees, after all there are two touch judges and two in goal judges so there's enough folk around. The real point that I think needs addressing is the role of the touch judge - if you read the rules of RL then the ONLY things they are allowed to do is flag for in touch and foul play. So many fans call for them to raise their flag for other things (forward passes, offside etc) but they are simply not permitted to.



Now a good referee will work with his TJs as a team and look to them for assistance, but most don't seem to. I think it's time that we got the touch judges to be able to indicate foward passes and offsides and get a more consistent application of the rules.

I think Child is missing his true vocation in life: being the member of a Samba band.

Yes I noticed that as well..In fact i may be wrong but didnt it actually hit the ref?

Why didnt he give a penalty

Can I ask how you can give a penalty for not standing square when the defending team are all stood on the try line?



Child spoilt what could have been an entertaining game, Wigan were by far better than us without a doubt and deserved the win

Quite simply the worst referee in Superleague by some considerable distance. If you ever want a game of rugby league ruining give this guy the whistle.



Not taking anything away from Wigan but they didn't need all the help they got from this poor excuse of a referee. Child should be given a nice flag to keep perminently because he isn't up being a Superleague ref.



He totally ruined the game for everyone before half time with his safe approach of pedantically over penalising the team expected to lose. Made me laugh how he gave us some very late decisions to make the count look a little less embarrassing for him.



Lets hope we don't get 'tight pants' again this year.

It's the club you should be blaming, not Childs. With the rumours of Sale moving in, the board are aware that some Sale fans have been attending Salford matches to check out the stadium. They decided at a board meeting last week that they would target these fans and try to entice them to become regulars. So, in order to appeal to those Sale fans, they had a word with the referee before Friday's match and asked him to make it a stop-start affair, littered with inexplicable penalties.



Yet another Salford c0ck up.

Before this game I was of the opinion the referee had improved over the years and was one of the fittest referees who positioned himself correctly to give the correct decision.How wrong could I have been ?

More knowledgeable and qualified people than me have gone completely out of character and lost their self-control over this individual and [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/apr/04/rfl-hull-richard-agar-refereeperhaps there was something remaining from this Hull game[/url as I cannot find any link to favouring Wigan;just a number of coaches complaining.



Credit has to be paid to Phil Veivers for his restraint and also our players who once again kept their composure

and didn't even lower themselves to a fit of pique and throwing the ball away as demonstrated by Hock.

I see he is at it again..... Wonder if the game follows the same pattern Mr Smith will have choice words about Mr Childs, yet against little old Salford nothing gets mentioned.





Edit. All 3 tries upto now on the back of penalty's, Kills the game for me, was 6 nill to Widnes then on the count, Wire get pen and go up other end and score.