Out of the regular Super League referees who do you believe to be the best?

Silverwood by a mile for me,the worst I have seen is Childs.

Alibert, yeah really, he used to be garbage but this season he's like a different person in Aliberts body.

Even though he recently hasn't been 'kind' to us, I have gone for Ganson

I have also gone for Ganson.

Silverwood

-Large Gap-

Alibert
Ganson

-Large Gap-

Thaler
Bentham

-Country Mile-

Hicks

-Distance to moon-

Child

Silverwood or Alibert, voted Silverwood for how well he did in the ANZAC test.

Silverwood for me. Managed the Wigan-Saints clash very well. Great flowing game. Can't agree at all with the Gansen vote. The guy makes far too many errors and his constant references to players as "mate" grates on me for its unprofessionalism. Do we really want nationally broadcast games to be punctuated with "You're offside mate", "high tackle mate" and "You're on report mate"? Maybe switch his mic off when he's reffing!

Rather punctuated by that than tripe from Eddie/Stevo. Off topic but I've always thought Sky should sort out a red button service so I could turn off the commentators and just hear the ref's mike


I voted for Silverwood

Thaler by an absolute mile. Easily the most consitent of the lot of them. And consistently good.

Always said previously Ganson, and he is still up there, but because he refs so much differently to the rest of the pack, it kind of frustrates me, and must frustrate players also.

Ganson is the best and Child is the worst.

Silverwood, easily the most consistent, probably followed by Thaler. Ganson is still prone to ruining games with his attention-seeking, Uncle Albert is way too erratic, missing the obvious and changing his mind, Bentham is good but his Wigan track record means I can't vote for him, Childs is improving but too whistle-happy.

Phil Clarke for solo anchorman!

Ganson by a mile

What, for putting his whistle in his pocket and not bothering all game?

It's a tough job and anybody is going to make the odd blunder now and again. However Alibert is currently the best by some distance. After that Bentham and Thaler, I don't see what people like in Silverwood. Ganson is far too concerned with himself and Child sadly doesn't appear to have a clue.

Alibert is the best for reffing the match, child's is the best for wrecking them and Gansons the best for hitting old la.... Nevermind!

No, for letting the players play the game and not being petty. Fans turn up to watch the players play Rugby, not the refs ref it.

Generally i turn up to watch a fair game, not one dragged to the lowest common denominator by a ref allowing the game to "flow"

Hicks had a shocker at Headingley tonight

But it was a fair game.

Just like the Leigh-Catalans game last week was a fair game and the ref was the star of the show blowing up every 2 minutes.

It was only fair in terms of Silverwood ignoring all offences by both sides. It was one of the most gutless performances I have seen for some time. Obviously didn't want a bashing in the Aussie media.

That is usually down to the players and how they want to play!!!

If they want to play you will never see the match officials, if they don't then the whistle, etc is activated.

Once the players get it right and stop trying to bend/break the rules then the game is far better.

if that was true i'd be happy, i'd also be surprised as almost everything you post is wrong