Widnes were once given a set of one by John Holdsworth in a John Player semi v Wire.

Wire kicked on the last, Widnes gathered the kick, went 80 yards up the pitch and JH ruled it the sixth tackle having failed to restart the count for the change of possession.

anyone that saw Aliberts awful performance at the weekend will fully understand why he has been dropped.

No sympathy for the man. If we mis-count things at work it costs us money if it's too many and sometimes customers if it's too less. I can accept mistakes happen but they usually end up with a ticking off in the office. Alibert's dropping for this weekends round of games is his ticking off for his inability to be able to count to 6.

No, I guess you won't...

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I suppose it's reasonable that, just like in any other job, refereeing errors of this magnitude have consequences for the responsible individual; it doesn't help WTW though.

Is this going to be a common thing dropping refs for errors? If this the case the weekend of the 30th March there will be no matches as there are no refs as they will be all dropped.

Slightly OT didn't Bentham do something similar last year? It was on Sky and I think it was Wire who were playing (can't remeber the opposition), where he called the 5th tackle just as the player was being tackled. Did anything happen to him?