I drove to Hull and back from Newcastle last night just for the game. I'm glad I did, I thought it was an enthralling game. Both teams tried to throw the ball about. Both teams where well up for it. It was very tense and very closely fought contest the whole way through, and the result could've gone either way right to the death. I thoroughly enjoyed the game as a spectacle.

However, I do wish (not because I am a Hull fan) that Yeamo had managed to sneak over in the last minute to secure victory. This is because all the justified criticism of the referee's performance would not then look like sour grapes. It really is not. Cas showed up well and are deservedly 2nd in the table, they looked dangerous with ball in hand and defended very well. I did not see a gulf in the teams that the league table suggests though and thought Hull deserved something from the game.

John Childs should be embarrassed and ashamed of himself. I have never seen such a complete and utter inept refereeing display in 20+ years of watching rugby league. The awarding of some penalties was baffling and the inconsistencies quite simply shocking. I really do hope that the coach and/or club put in a formal complaint to the RFL or the RFL take it upon themselves to at least review his display. It is pleasing to read that several Castleford fans (on these boards) have also been gracious enough to admit that some of his decisions left them bewildered. They say a good referee is one that ghosts through a game relatively un-noticed. Well it would appear that last night John Childs wanted to be the highlight of the game and he certainly succeeded in that. It is of course impossible to say what the result of the game would have been with a different referee, but I do fell in such a closely fought contest that his influence alone impacted on the result.

Well played to Cas on the result and well done to the fans for making plenty of noise.

Best description of an attention seeking, inept buffoon.
Good luck for the rest of the season, will be at your place later in the season, love going to cas

Who is John Childs?

Well you are a Rovers fan,we would have to check if you said the night was black.

Illigitimate`s brother.

Remember Ashley Clown? oh to have him back.

Gawd,another berk.
(Clown,not you.

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Think Childs has to be given time off for me, we dread him as well (along with kickoff at the mo) the kid from the nationals (name alludes me) is looking like a seasoned pro next to childs.

I have never had reason to get involved with you - but please on your bike - Last nights game between Hull and Cas is nothing to do with a Red and White - go and discuss your drubbing at Saints

I have never had reason to get involved with you - but please on your bike - Last nights game between Hull and Cas is nothing to do with a Red and White - go and discuss your drubbing at Saints

I think you mean Tim Roby. He is being developed for Super League rather than dropped in at e deep end.

Without seeing replays it's impossible to say, however I'd be willing to bet that if we did then most of his decisions would probably be right. What you would also likely find though is that he wasn't applying the rules consistently which is where a lot of the problems lie. Fact is he was being pedantic and we should have given him no opportunity to ping us time and time again

There's no way on earth you can be certain of that.

For both sides I take it,or was he just officiating Hull,the penalty count will tell you different.

Not sure if anyone has actually posted the penalty count, but it was 14-13 in Castleford's favour.

So both sides were penalised just as much,and theres me thinking Cas got the rub of the green.

So a total of 27 pens in the game - not being a stats person what is the usual average for a Super League Game?

Cas did Radford sin binned Cas Spoken to 5 times nobody in the bin the only time you had a man binned is when a Hull man when with him ..With Radford off Cas had advantage for 10 minutes ..This ref lost the respect of the players of both teams I told a mate that an Hull player would be sent off well before it happen ..That was the only way Childs was going to be happy I was just surprised it took him so long

he had a stinker .end off

He was an 18th century aviator apparently.....

You know what I meant

It's ok Alibert will show him how it's done

Sunday 3rd April
Bradford Bulls v Harlequins RL 3pm
Ref T Alibert TJ J Child TJ D Griffiths IG T Crashley IG M Hawkes RR R Webb TK G Kershaw MC D Asquith

Watching the Cru game last night and Ganson sin binned a player after 10 mins for a grapple, i thought it was a show of intent to say this is what we are doing now, then every other grapple after that was just disregarded, even Brian Carney mentioned it on the commentary.

That's the rule then, first one sin-binned and the rest get let off. Just don't be first - obvious really when you think about it

Absolutely - its the consistency that is missing here, and we certainly missing from our game. I don't think many people would have any objection to dangerous tackles been clamped down on.

The problem is Childs and Ganson both have an arrogance about them that leads them to apply the new interpretation without any thought about what has gone before. The reason this has been brought in is presumably in response to the complaints from the clubs about certain clubs - Wigan - introducing dangerous techniques which makes it ironic. So we suffer at the hands of Wigan , complain and then suffer an over zealous interpretation after 6 minutes. That will frustrate the players and the ref should understand that bigger picture. Frustrating certainly but then again the club were told about it and being a professional outfit we should have expected it. Childs was appalling but we knew that before the game. We should have dealt with it. I thought the game was as good as we've seen at the KC for ages , actually got the crowd on their feet. Pity Childs spoilt it as it could have been a really good game. Thought probably a draw would have been fair and that Cas were tougher than we've seen for some time. Chase did what we expected him to do and we couldn't stop him but it was Cas's resiliance in defence that won them the game in the end.