J Leahy

Bentham has been given the biggest match of the weekend - Leeds v Saints, how he can get that after his performance on Friday ill never know

worst ref ever.

You ain't seen this one yet. He looked well out his depth at Galpharm Stadium pre season.

Is he the one who makes us knock on, throw forward passes and makes us miss tackles

No thats all the others we have

I think you'll find I actually wrote Bentham gave us enough penalties but we did bugger all with them last Friday. I think ref bashing is a far too easy excuse.

We didn't bash the refs when Wakey and Cas beat us at home because we could see they weren't to blame but the game against Huddersfield was a different matter.
We would have won with a different ref.

That's just boll[io[/icks.

Difficult to know if we would have won for sure with a different ref, but I think the game would have been better to watch as Huddersfield would most likely not have got away with what they did with Bentham as ref.

Refs have a bigger impact on the game than most people realise.
Here's a point...Many tries come from penalties. Who awards the penalties? If the ref chooses not to award a penalty as sometimes they don't then this will affect the score.
It's rubbish to say don't blame the ref, it's always the players fault.
A ref could give 'not square' at most play the balls.
A ref could penalise the defending team for not having 2 feet on the line on EVERY occasion.

And without the ref there would be no game. Hey ho, we've gone full circle.

isn't this guy a cumbrian?

Dont think he's from Cumbria, he ref'd our home game against Doncaster the other week, wasnt the best ive seen but wasnt the worst either.

your thinking about that other useless waste of space. whats his name??? oh thats it, R Mathers

Poor old Richie Mathers gets the blame even when he is not playing.

Didnt we have this ref the other week.

Think you are both thinking of Gareth Hewer who is from Whitehaven and did the Salford game.

Leahy is from Dewsbury and did the pre season friendly at Huddersfield. Competitively we've not had him before.

Thats were i remember him from he didnt do to well with the early niggles that lead to a little brawl from the penalty if i remember.