Is the new James Child

It was not him, it was the touchie on the family stand side (in 2nd half). He really hated us. I think we must have eaten his cat or something.

Tom Briscoe flops on Ah Van and turns him in the tackle only for him then to run on and report Ah Van pushing Briscoe after the tackle and cue the penalty to Hull.

It was madness.

Inconsistent is perhaps the polite way to describe the officials today.

As poor and inconsistent Bent ham was the Bulls were far worse, they did nothing today and though poor reffering does exacerbate the problem it does nothing to detract from it! Shite as he was he didn't cost us the game (as Nobby said a long time ago when we were moaning about poor reffing the Team have to better than the Ref!)
Even when in the last 5+ minutes he decided much to Hulls surprise to penalise them for fouls they had been committing all match without as much as a warning.! The Bulls were woeful in taking advantage! That is what Cummings will focus on, not his overall below standard performance!

If you're trying to blame the ref for today's perfomance, you're just kidding yourselves.

He had a few shockers for us lot as well, out of our 2 disallowed trys one should have stood.

As for the flop by Briscoe, He would have given it your way if it wasn't for Ah Van pushing him.!

Had a good afternoon today for some reason i love coming over to your place.!

Good look with rest of season and just make sure you finish above Rovers.!

Pathetic thread, no matter how bad you think a ref is, he is no James Child.

Still wasnt good today though, unless Fitzgibbon doubles as Usain Bolt

No wonder he scored that try after the kick behind our defence, he was stood in our line all day!! Great player though and if the ref lets him get away with it cant blame him. Was a great signing for you whoever made it

Had you lost ..................

Yeah, i agree the ref was totally on our side, we wouldn't have won without him.

James Child literally cost us a game this season, i know what it feels like to be totally robbed, today was not one of those days for you.

Please don't take this thread as a "Bradford robbed" thread because we weren't.

Bentham or BENTham as Dennis likes to call him was poor all around for both sides, but he did give you the 50/50 calls.

Did he? How did he do that?

And I think, to be fair, we have had our fair share of being ribbed by officials.

But agreed, today was definately not one of those days.

Bentham wasn't the reason we lost, but he was pi$$ poor today

i arent blaming the ref for Bulls losing today, just thought he was poor. You cant tell me a super league side didnt commit a foul for about an hour which was about the gap in between our penalties at one point today

Hull were crap, Bentham was crap, we were worse. Pointless either side talking about play offs as both would lose in the first round

As a few have said, he didn't make us lose, we demonstrated that ourselves when he did give us penalties on their line, but he ruined the game as a spectacle. Hull slowed down the PTB so much , there was little opportunity to play anything exciting, we should have played to it more and wriggled in the tackle and try and play the ball quicker ourselves.

Don't think anyone is blaming him for us losing. But doesn't take away the fact he was crap. That touch judge was a joke, first the Briscoe one where he was all over Ah Van, trying to turtle him, no penalty, Ah Van pushes him (the thug) and we get penalised. The the same touch judge couldn't wait to come on to give Hull another penalty when we had the ball (for what i dont' know). Then he gave us 3 penalties on the bounce (that won't penalties) to even it up.

Hull were lying on all game (as were Bradford). Bentham doesn't think it's lying on, then decides it is 3 sets on the bounce.

No way ami using the ref as an excuse or saying he was against Bradford, he was just crap

I think a lot of refs would have struggled today trying to police what were two very sloppy and undisciplined teams

Diskin complains refs are interfering in games too much. When they don't interfere you complain.

Bentham AND HIS TEAM OF OFFICIALS were poor today. but they were not responsible for our defeat. the 17 players and coaching staff were. Sure BEntham made a couple of howlers that could have influenced the game, if the BUlls were capable of keeping a hold of the ball for a set and building pressure.
I loved it when we threw the ball away after a decision went against us and it was a penalty for dissent, but in th very next set when FC did it, it wasnt. The officiating in our sport is going downhill rapidly, and we need to do something about it. The sport is getting like all in wrestling and rule changes need to be applied. also, we need one set of rules worldwide!

having said all this, if we had the quality of over seas players that HUll have in the likes of Fitzgibbon and OMeley, rather than Ah, he's dropped it again Van and " three bad things for each good" Herbert, then we would be more competitive. And before i leave out the coaches from my anger, who the hell puts safe hands Ah Van at Fullback, when both Royston and PLatt are on the field????

Well he shouldn't of flopped and then laid on for the next 5 minutes!! How many times do you see players pushing the opposition off to get a quick play the ball?

No it isn't.



What do you suggest?

Yes it is!! Its unbelievable how biased some refs are!! And new employment!

The ref had nothing to do with why we lost. Giving penalties away whilst in possession is criminal.

However I did think he was very inconsistent at times and the PTB was awful. Seems too that the 10m rule is one to ignore 99% of the time too. Having said that it was a good job at times as Hull really dominated the collision.