Why do you think crowd violence and physical abuse is OK? Hitting people is not OK and to be honest achieves often nothing but making a problem worse If somebody acts like a dick and has a big gob so what. As long as he does not hit anybody or cause a major problem what is your problem? If he annoys you so much move away. There is no need to hit anybody at a Rugby League game-its a family sport!

why dont you write to him saying that? i never touched nobody!

did it never run through your mind that 'man' deserved some what-for?

yes im biased,but watching it when I got back in, he was giving warnings to Fev players, more than he was ours. He seemed to blow up straight away against us.



Also, why did he allow the Fev players to constantly back chat & straight out swear at him (as they did after Shad went over for our last try)? Seems weak when it comes to fronting up to players

Strange really but he said he called held because a Halifax player had added weight to the tackle. Funny then that when Barker was originally tackled Penky clearly adds weight to the tackle. Why not call held then. Also in the second half Barrie Mac picked up on the two incidents where a Fev player was tackled and was aloud to carry on. The first the Fev player has a Fax player on his ankles and is on his knees a few seconds pass and even though the ball carrying arm hadnt touch his momentum was stopped and it should have been called held.

Child and Hicks are just not very good end of.

I thought Childs did well and was consistent. it was a great game to watch so he couldn't have disrupted the flow that much. To be honest, he could have doubled the penalties as neither side was ever on-side!

He needs to clarify the held rule in my opinion. Fev scored from a penalty he gave when he should have called held and barker passed it and they scored when two tackles were made and he waved play on. Added to the Harris "try" and thats three tries gifted to them. He was inconsistent for both sides but he could have killed us off. This lack of consistency caused frustration and some high shots, could see fax players asking why decisions were going fev's way. I felt for them. Childs needs to be struck off the ref list in my opinion

I watched the game again once i got home and to be honest most of the decisions were right. It seemed completely different watching it live in the stadium.



Apart from the Harris try which was dodgy to say the least and came from Hicks, Childs got most of his calls right. I can't believe i'm saying that after being there but he was.



There were a few fifty fifty calls but that was it really.



The one thing i thought was that Fev were allowed to slow us down more then we were allowed to slow them down. It just seems everyne is allowed to lie on in the tackle against us.

He called held clearly and then Barker passed. The second half incident, he never called held so there isn't a problem. Play to the whistle - Barker didn't.



Billyfax - how else are we expected to slow you down

Tackling



A player in possession is tackled:

Grounded

(a) when he is held by one or more opposing players

and the ball or the hand or arm holding the ball

comes into contact with the ground.



Upright

(b) when he is held by one or more opposing players

in such a manner that he can make no further

progress and cannot part with the ball.



Succumbing

(c) when, being held by an opponent, the tackled

player makes it evident that he has succumbed to

the tackle and wishes to be released in order to

play the ball.

Hand on player



(d) when he is lying on the ground and an opponent

already grounded places a hand on him.



[iYou could argue that it falls under (b) as he could make no more progress however [/i



Moving tackled player

(a) Where opponents do not make a tackle effective in the quickest possible manner but attempt to push, pull or carry the player in possession, it is permissible for colleagues of the tackled player to lend their weight in order to avoid losing ground. Immediately this happens the referee should call “Held”.

(b) Where the tackled player is held in an upright position, the ball shall not be played before the referee indicates that the tackle has been effected.



[iSo in that case the ref decided that the Halifax players joined and then called held. At which point Barker passed the ball. Tough call but was probably right.[/i



[i

As for the should have been tackled. He clearly didn't touch the ground with the ball carrying arm and was in a position to clearly pass the ball on. Therefore 'Play on'.[/i

That's very harsh...the whistle went at pretty much the same time as the ball did.

Nail on head.



Its like they were saying commentary it did turn into a competition to see how much use Child could get out of his whistle but they were legitimate.



The Barker offload penalty was a farce, the sad knacker that I am, I played and paused and he says held a split second AFTER the ball leaves his hands. Also a Fev player was half a yard offside at one of the kick off (those penalties really infuriate me)



The thing was though, after he blew the whistle for everything in the first, he spent the first 15 minutes in the 2nd half letting the game flow, very confusing.

Er so he didn't disallow the try in the first few minutes for what all teams do - dummy runner???

He pinged us for offside time after time yet he did you lot ONCE all game for offside???

I watched him and he NEVER looked down the line when Fev were defebding to see if you were offisde.

So how come we were offside then Mr Ref???



You even got offisde when you had a 'try' disallowed by the video Ref he then gave you the ball back with a penalty.



Nah the guy was cr*p last night.