As per title things will never change until we have 2 refs per game, there is just too much going on between the two teams for one single ref to judge and officiate. It’s also worse when your ref is unfit or inexperienced, Hewer was an example last week of being unfit to keep up with the game, at times he was struggling to set the 10 metres defensive line and allowing extra seconds at the PTB. Other times he was too far away to make a good judgement head tackles, obstruction, interference etc.
The RFL need to create a major procurement program to triple the amount of officials we have at present, we should have a primary ref and a secondary ref. At the moment despite the errors and inconsistency of referees they can only be dropped for one game because of the shortage of official numbers.
There should also be a schooling of coach and ref in way of a working group to reduce the amount of inconsistency created by players conning the ref or intepretation of the game by the referee himself.