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| I'm stunned that this thread made it to a second page without Russell Smith being mentioned.
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| Also on topic, that Russell Smith game was the last 10,000+ crowd at Wilderspool.
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| tbf, Russell Smith wasn't that bad a ref (imo)
Yes. he loved us over on 2/1/94, but we also lost other narrow games that season (it still stings with me though, as we'd finished 8th the season before, we signed JD, and I backed us @ 50/1 the week after he signed). Russell Smith WASN'T the reason we didn't win the league that year, as much as we'd like to blame him.
To all those under the age of 35 ish, who criticise Silverwood, Bentham, Thaler et al. Trust me, in the words of Harold McMillan "YOU'VE NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD"
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| Surely the Connelly brothers should get an dishonourable mention as joint leaders of this gang. Also Billy Thomson had a habit of making scrums reform till he got his breath back. none of these refs would survive in the present game with TV replays
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| Russell Smith was not bent. A very firm but good ref. probably the best since John Holdsworth.
Smith did make a mistake about Paul Cullen that effectively cost us the championship.
Smith realised he made an error and has since admitted so. You can't ask anymore than that, one huge blunder doesn't make him a bad ref.
Thompson however was different. I managed to get a question to him on GMR about the cc v hull. He gave no answer other than to mock Warrington fans.. He knew what he was doing the cheating b.
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