WHy was he binned? I missed it as I was talking to my son at the time.

Holding onto the ball in the tackle and not allowing the ball carrier to play it.

Holding on for too long.

A certain Huddersfield player did the exact same thing & didn't get sin binned & scored the Giants 2nd try, Lawrence I think it was.

Which is fair enough if you bin the Hudds players when they do it first time and not after talking to them 3 times..

ridiculous decision when you look at what they got away with..

Smith was utter dog today.

Couldn't have put it any better...

I thought at the time that it could have only been holding on a bit too long from the bit I saw but then when the card came out I thought something else must have happened.

Very harsh decision then IMO.

I don't have a problem with a ref taking an early stance to make his mark. But to then ignore other instances of the same infringement makes it worthless. We were penalised for some very dubious stuff that at other times was ignored. All we want is consistency.

Smith was either incompetent or trying to even things up. I have no problem with Riley's sin binning if Smith had applied the same punishment to both teams. He even called Hodgson over to warn the team, and then gave a penalty the next time, but no yellow card. The yellow card they did get was after he spoke to him 3 times.
And how can you knock on when facing your own posts, and the other team to be allowed to play on when they do the exact same thing.
Smith did his best to spoil a good atmosphere. And how pleasant was it to watch a game without wearing a coat?

Smith was weird at times today, actually the officials in general. The touchie must have come on 14 times - normally you can't them onto the field for love nor money.

Weird today, Warrington would lose the ball, get it back, yet he flat out refused to restart the tackle count, this happened at least twice.

Riley's indiscipline is costing us, yet another sinbinning today. The hot-headed youngster needs to calm down before he does the team some real damage. After his scrapping against Catalans and his messing around at the PTB today I think Smith needs to sort him.

U r havin a laugh mate arnt u

He is a top player doin a great job week in week out what he did against catalan was defend himself against a buch of bullies which im sure would b comended by TS KEEP it up RILEY ur doin a top job with 200% heart & commitment u should try it just_browny

*hehe*

Shocking refereeing today. Fair enough bin Riley but how didn't Hodgson get binned when we had an identical break and Hodgson jumped on top of Hicks - Smith gave the penalty but just had a word!!

Didn't think he was that good!

what a pillock...worst post ever...

I take it you disagree. Do you not think the flame-haired flier needs to rein in his fiery temper?

nothing wrong with his temper

he chased back made the tackle held on a bit too long but was very ulucky to receive yellow card

i do dis-agree..what temper..next the likes of you will be moaning about the way morley and harrison tackle ..get a grip..he was only lying on...

I had no problem with Smith's stance on the Riley decision, if he deemed it a professional foul, fair enough. Whether it's the first minute or last it shouldn't matter. It's the inconsistency that grates somewhat. You'd expect inconsistency from official to official, not set of six to set of six.

I thought he was joking tbh. These days we just can't read properly without fifty smilies

spot on

I think Riley got sin binned on purpose to get out of the sun...ginger hair and fair skin, not good in this weather!

Riley raked the ball out. Or rather, he had hold of it when their guy tried to get up and the ball came loose and as Riley was the "Last man back" and was holding him down, he got 10 Minutes in the bin.

Spoke to him briefly after the game, he said he had no idea what happened, said he tackled him, went to stand up and the ball was loose and the officials saw it as a professional foul. He did add at the end that he enjoyed the 10 minutes rest in the bin.

I'm assuming the reason Hodgson didn't get Binned for a similar tackle was because the ball wasn't deemed "Stolen" like it was for Riley.