It was decided by Ganson, if he sees the forward pass the slowest winger in Superleague scores a consolation try.

Leeds v Bradford, Millenium Stadium, 2007.

Cummins was one of the worst refs, no wonder the current officials are so poor.



Laughed my head off today at Hicks, awful performance.

Why do you stick up for ref's. they can change a game they can keep you on the back foot by penalizing you.This guy today kept Salford in the game,If he hadn't gone off Salford would have got a penalty when they lost the ball at the end.He penalized Hull 3 times and the Salford players lost the ball.You are not the only one that know the rules.lot of supports that go to the game are well up on the rules and know what they are talking about

They useds to say "if you pay peanuts you get monkeys". Thing is the RL aren't paying peanuts now but it's the same monkeys !



Refereeing is b__dy difficult (I've tried it), but the level of professionalism of the referees is outstripped by that of the players and coaches. Additionally the pace of the modern game makes if very difficult for 1 man to watch everything.



I do think a sign of the times is that Aussies have gone with 2 refs. If they admit 1 man cannot do it why don't we admit it ?

i am sure the rugby league would welcome more people becoming referees enabling them to improve the overall standards,so unless people step forward instead of moaning on here[rightly or wronglyhow do you suggest standards will improve,obviously the guys doing the job now are the best they've got so unless anyone out there could do better and steps forward we are stuck with them.

This is a rant at RL fans in general

Instead of investing into Bradford ground. Spend that money on ref's or improving them .There is noway would I like to see 2 of this lot on the pitch at the same time.Ps the fans that go to games help to pay they wages .So they are allowed to rant.If the team is crap we rant so what the different.

cats v saints the other week

Perhaps the extra defending we had to do had something to do with that. Wasn't the second half penalty count about 8/0 in Rovers' favour? I know we lack discipline at times, but not to that extent.



I take your point that refs don't necessarily 'decide' the outcome of a game as there are many other factors that can have a bearing on it. A ref can certainly have an undue influence on a game, however, and I think MM is a fair example of this.

Which Salford player was it that pushed the referee away before taking a tap penalty on our 20? Will he be in front of the "judiciary"?

Did you notice the first decision made by the new ref was a scrum to us when the ball came out in the tackle? I'm not sure if it wouldn't have gone the other way with the Mr H.



I thought Hicks started really well and, in fact, a lot of the decisions that we didn't like we're correct. However, where he let himself down was by allowing Salford to play him for a fool. By the middle fo the second half he'd lost control and, imo, is to blame for the couple of blow-ups that occurred finally resulting in a sin-binning after three repeat-offences from Salford (isn't that a yellow-card offence?).

Leeds away, 3 big ones