that french bloke should be downgraded to the junior girls netball team...what a tosspot.

Quite whistle happy but who cares!!!

Was,,,Tierry Alibert....and we got the performance what was expected.....poop!!!!!!!!!!

We had Ganson last night and he is a cheat which we expect anyway, but Allibert is totally incompetent

However, we really didn't help ourselves. With one or two totally mysterious decisions, we pretty much deserved what we got. In fact, a few of our forward passes were missed.

Thankfully, though, there was a kindly touch judge who saved our buttocks twice. I do think Halibut needs some help, as clearly Mr Ganson did on one occasion this evening also.

what did the penalty count finish?...something like 15 to 6 in the wire's favour.
did we get a penaty in the 2cnd half?

The main thing everybody ( Mr. Cummins please note ) everybody has learnt from that match is that French clown should never referee an important game again.

The French ref for the Halifax - Widnes game the other night was far better than Halibut. I don't mind us conceding penalties but when the other teams' go unpunished for the same offence it stinks.

he got the majority of decisions right but bottled out on the big one.

He obviously thought Saints were offside for the Foster try, and they were. It should have been a penalty to Wire, however under the current rules it needs to change.

We should look at the last play the ball, in it's entirety. You all know how much I have argued about incorrect play the balls in the past.
However if we do it we need the funding for video technology at all games as in the NRL.

It's not the ones he gave but the ones he didn't give that is annoying. No way were we 15 - 6 worse than wire tonight.

agree with rogues the play the ball should count and foster try shouldnt of been a try but hay im a saints fan and so what im happy with the result, i bet westwood wont be to happy

Look I was completely neutral tonight. A Saints win helped us, but that was a match changing decision and it was wrong ( but correct under the current regime)

The thing is I'm arguing something that I've been arguing for ages, so don't accuse me of trolling.

Saints player should of seen yellow for the pro foul on Riley.

On yer bike Flannery was committed to the tackle!

I didnt go to the game. That ok with you?

Agreed - the tackle was made only a split second after the ball was offloaded. A penalty was given - anything more would have been harsh and wrong.

flamin hell pal what more do you want..you already had 15 penalties to our 6.
with the way that plonker was refereeing in your favour it's funny he didnt give him a red card.

=#FF0000Quit it with the personal insults

TS

Two pints in the Lord Rodney then home. What is your point?

The players that got involved in play were onside, so it should have been given regardless of the rule. Wilkin simply got out of the line quicker than the players beside him.

But hey, read all about it.

I agree. It should run from the shout of "held", because whatever follows is part of the next play.

He was too easy-going for me. Graham should have got 10 for bellowing at him, and quite a few Saints were carping. The microphones clearly picked up Graham shouting "f'ing move" to the ref when he was stood two feet away as Wire were about to take a tap. Don't turn into Leeds, please.

The ref was stood in front of him whilst he was trying to defend his line. What would you have said?

The ref's positioning was woeful all night.

Dont know how you could even think that the player was offside - clearly states in the rule book that you need to be 10m from the play the ball, doesnt even mention anything about the position in relation to the referee.
Wilking was 10m away from the play the ball as it was being played - he was also in front of the ref - simply because referees have become lazy and take teams further back than the required 10m doesnt mean that any player infront of him is offside.
If you want to go down the route of either drawing accurate lines on a graphic on the pitch or just ruling when it is a more obvious call (on the goal line) then the only decisions that will be made are try or penalty attack - its certainly not something I want to see in a game.

I am amazed, what comes around, goes around. We were fortunate with the Foster try, why? Alibert was deciding what rules to use when it suited him all night. If he kept up with the game and the rules, he wouldn't have to go to the VR regarding offside, because, he has been a VR at Leeds against us. Remember the knock on he got wrong. Alibert missed the shepherd by Carvell on the build up to the first Westwood try. He completely missed that one and it was only four yards away from him. Why pick on him? All the Super League refs have been poor this year, but, the Championship refs are alot better. Can we reverse them next season , we get the championship refs and they get the Super League ones.

What about the match changing decision where he gave a ball steal against Ashurst when the ball stayed in Solomona's hands the whole time? That one led directly to a try.