A Huddersfield fan complaining about other teams slowing the game by holding down and grappling in the tackle.



Can someone fetch my replacement irony meter...?

It wins you the minor champions title, so why not? I take it you dont watch much RL?



the point however was that one single incident didnt change the game.

There can be no complaints regarding the sin-binning. The knock-on from Lupton in the tackle, is a whole different matter.

He sanes his worse performances with us when we play Hudds.

The RFL must be hard up for good referee's. Thaler has made some shocking decisions this year in games ive to been to and watched on the Telly. If I made as many mistakes where I work, I would be shown my P45.



He is as bad as Ashley Clown

But YOU!!!!!!! would be a PERFECT match official.



Why are you not constantly carping on about the players/coaches/backroom staff of the club you support and the mistakes they make, or is it just match officials.



As an example why are there not pages of diatribe and other comments about Pat Richards not scoring the winning goal for Wigan.



He made a mistake, he failed, he got it wrong, he didn't score, his team lost but there are not pages and pages of posts about it.

Honestly, your constant defence of even the most incompetent showings by match officials is getting a little tiresome now.



We get your point, it's a tough job (I know, I've done it albeit at a very low level). That doesn't - and shouldn't - excuse them from criticism however when they monumentally cock it up.

People attack, I defend.



What's wrong with that?



If they stop then so do I.

Mainly because Pat Richards will discuss what happened, analyse what went wrong and probably apologise for his mistakes to those it affected. Do you think Thaler will do (or has done) anything similar to the above?

I am certain he has reviewed his performance and if any mistakes were made then he will definitely not have got off lightly. What you have to remember is that this thread was started to discuss the sin binning of a player for a deliberate delay of the 20 metre restart. This particular protocol has been in place for about 3 years now and was applied entirely correctly and yet a Hull KR fan saw fit to attempt to criticise based upon the correct application of this protocol when it was entirely and completely correct.

The main problem is inconsistency, it's fine saying it was the correct protocol and it's been in place for 3 years, but what you're not explaining is all the games in the season where the correct protocol hasn't been applied; in my opinion it isn't applied in the majority of cases? This season I've seen most of Quins home games live and plenty of other teams on Sky, and a bit of messing about trying to delay the restart is not at all uncommon, yet this is the first time I can remember a player being sinbinned, not only that, but in this case it didn't appear to me that Hudds were actually in a position to exploit a really quick restart.



What is the protocol for a calculated professional foul like the one Peter Fox committed in the Hull derby? FC made a clean break and he held the tackled player down until the exposed defence could recover; my understanding is that such a clear professional foul should be a sinbinning, but not for the first time this season I see a referee decide to take the soft option with a penalty?

In the roundball game they had to reword professional foul to a longer name (denying an obviousl goal scoring opportunity) so the fans could understand it better but the logic is the same, holding the player down deliberately in midfield after a breakaway is not a "professional foul" as its not likely to have stopped points being scored just stopped a roll on occuring (usually just gets a ticking off) but if it happens close to the try line its more lkelyto be a yellow as a try is being prevented if that makes sense.

Delaying a quick 20 metre restart as mentionned is a yellow by the proceedures laid out dlaying other restarts on the first occasion (i.e throwing the ball away at scrums / drop outs) is just time off, if they do it again then its a potential yellow.



I didnt see the incidents but this is just a generalisation based on whats said