To be honest new rule or no new role Tim Roby didn't have a clue. The game changer for me was at 12-10 to Leeds Sinny kicked for field position on the fourth tackle and it was touched in flight by a Cas player making the ball live, the ball only went 30 yards down field and Ablett followed up and tackled the Cas player on their 20. Roby gave Ablett offside and they punted the resulting penalty into our half and gained another penalty (which I have no despute with the high shot that earned it) from which they equalised.
With over 3 minutes left when we were penalised again and they were presented their final winning kick he also allowed them to waste so much time before stopping the clock at 48 seconds which meant there was only 15 seconds left when we kicked off. I don't blame the Cas player for taking his time and I realise they are allowed a period of time to take the kick but Roby should have noticed what he was doing and stopped it earlier for me.
Anyway all that said well played Cas

Yep, Leeds got a team warning then committed 4 further penalties without a sin binning.



He was offside when the ball was originally kicked, that is why it was a penalty.



The rule is you're allowed to run a minute off the clock before the ref is allowed to stop it so you're now blaming Roby for following the rules.



But the new rule this year is after a knock on you get a "free play" until the completion of the next tackle so you will see a lot, if not all, teams punting the ball down field after a knock on because if it comes off you have great field position, if not you get the scrum.

The Cas player didnt "touch the ball in flight". The ball was kicked into his back as he was stood still so the ball was not deemed live. He didn't make a play at the ball and it is the same as if it hadn't touched him at all. The same way you still get head and feed at a scrum if the ball goes into touch after hitting you accidentally.

As for the next point you make, I looked at the stadium clock just after the penalty and it said 1:47. You get 1 minute before the clock stops, regardless of how much it looks like you are time wasting. Roby got both these spot on and although he got a few things wrong during the game, he wasn't the cause of our loss. We were.

Wow, that took me 5 minutes to write?

Are we trying to mimic Union where advantage seems to last for about 7 minutes?

Why do we tinker with rules that make the job for people in the middle even more difficult year after year?

Quite. And year-on-year the lament is heard around the grounds about this ref, that ref, the other ref, bloody all of 'em being rubbish. I say blame the legislators, not the police.
I've even more sympathy for referees this season given what they've been given to wear.