Was not to impressed with him last night I still thought that a couple of blatent things went against us, when we should have been awarded a penalty. Look at that play of the ball that resulted in Highams try, yes i know it seems peadantic but rules are rules, that ball clearly moved forward.
Oh well some you win some you loose.

I'm still not convinced with Gardner's "NO Try".

Higham's was a joke. $hite play the ball then Anderson shoves Clough out of the way, obstructing him from touching the player.

The ptb has been messy for years, if you penalised that one then you'd have to penalise every one of them and then everyone would be moaning about how many penalties the ref has given and how he wants to be at the centre of attention.

I slated Smith a few times at the match for a couple of decisions, and I'll watch the game in the cold light of day before I make my final judgement, but for the most part I didn't really notice him at the game which leads me to believe he didn't have the worst game

I think we lost 3 or 4 games last year with Smith, hence DA's spat over his capabilitys of being superleague standard. At least he was rubbish for both teams last night, the problem is when we get him for away games, we always end up chasing the game because we don,t get any 50-50 calls.

You forgot the briers knock on and re-gather.

Refs will always get things wrong, as they go smith is'nt a bad ref

Smith has single handedly lost us games in the past few years. He is lucky that DA has left the club and he is now allowed back to KR to ref a big team. He is a c0kc face and a bore in real life.

Highams was a try though tbh, Thaler did well.

It didn't go to the video ref, did it ?

Highams was clearly a try. No problems at all.

Ade's try was dubious. It looked like he knocked on and to me he was also short of the line. I'd have said no try.

Yep.

Or, at least I think it did.

Higham's try didnt go to the video ref.

Smith gave the try on the spot.

Felt sorry for Higham, thought he did his best, worked his guts out and made big time charlies like Monners and King look like shythawks. He could be better than Jon Clarke to I think

So head coaches should hand-pick officials? Refs are now 'allowed' back? A dazzling personality should be a pre-requisite for SL refs? Shame you couldn't blame him when it really mattered

ahhhh, Well, either way it was the right decision!

Thought so.

According to the rules it wasn't the right decision!

Gardner's no try could have been given.

Higham's try was touch and go.

He gave a knock on against Fa'asavalu when it was clearly stolen prior to Rauhihi's try.

He gave a knock on against Carvell when it was stolen prior to Gilmour's try.

Gardner's try was touch and go.

There was a clear forward pass prior to Gidley's try.

Armstrong clearly knocked on.


With the exception of all of this, the officials were brilliant.

He had a good game and let it flow as much as he could

Why not?

There was nothing wrong with it, at first glance it did look like Higham knocked on, but when you look again he doesn't. It was a try

It wasn't legal because you're not allowed to play the ball forward, it has to go backwards.

It didn't go forward.

Bring back Klown.

Smith is useless and shouldn't be refereeing any games after what he let fat Newton get away with in 2005... nevermind SL!! Who was ref in 2004 in play-offs?? Against W*gan when we got nowt all match??... mmm me thinks it was 'growler' again!! he's sh*te! End of chat...

It certainly did.