His seventh straight Wigan game, too, I believe.
His seventh straight Wigan game, too, I believe.
St Helens Rugby League Football Club
Gets rewarded for one of the most inept displays of refereeing (Leeds v Catalan) I have everton witnessed.
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Sums up the RFL. Rewarding poor performance.
NEVER WRITE OFF THE SAINTS
If we play as well as we can the ref won’t matter but it is ridiculous that he’s managed to get the big game. Lets look on the bright side. Surely he’s due a competent performance?? You would imagine.
screaming in the family corner, scaring the kiddies
perhaps he's in their Covid bubble
Competent he doesn’t know the meaning of the word. So everybody just accepts that a bad ref gets such a prestige game. Think it’s about time teams got true answers.
Who reffed the Grand Final last year, was that Kendall ???
There'll be dancing in the streets of Wigan tonight. Who would've thought it, seven straight Wigan matches officiated by the same man, can the image of the sport sink any lower? Why not just give 'em the trophy and be done with it.
It beggars belief,they can go head hunting now and he will penalise us if we so much as fart out of tune.
We got to rise above it. We can not let the choice of the referee give us an excuse in the back of our minds.
I think some of the criticisms of Kendall’s refereeing are over the top, as are suggestions of bias. The real issue from the Leeds/Catalans game for me was not that Kendall missed the incidents in the first instance but that the video ref watched the replays and did nothing. I have no fear of bias or anything conspiratorial on Friday.
I do, however, think it is dodgy that Wigan have had him as ref for seven consecutive games. As much as I’m sure the governing body would tell us that all refs apply the rules consistently, it’s only human nature that some will have a slightly different set of triggers than others - with some refs you’ll get away with a bit more lying on or a yard or two of encroachment at the play the ball, with others it’ll be something else. Seven consecutive games with the same ref gives you a tremendous amount of recent data on exactly what you can and can’t get away with with that particular ref, and this is an advantage over a team that doesn’t have this data.
Just to be clear - I don’t suggest that this is any kind of pro-Wigan conspiracy, but it is certainly poorly thought out.
•••• poor ref performances get you the grand final.
RFL. Go and f#ck yourself
Harrogate
It still galls me that he didn’t card or even penalise McIllorum for trying to drag an injured player to his feet. There’s no way he could have missed that. And he must have seen that Dwyer was bleeding and injured. Why didn’t he ask the video ref to review what had happened? I also fear that he believes that letting the game flow is more important than player welfare. Ignoring repeated head shots could result in the Super League/RFL being sued in future years.
Dear Saints
Please do not let the referee be the story on friday night.
Yours sincerely
Learned comment from The Don
Wigan fans appear very pleased with the announcement! Says it all really
If he refs headshots, slowing the PTB and offside like he did in the Derby game the other week, then we've no chance. The scum's entire gameplan is based around being dirty b*stards to injure players out of the game, slowing the PTB to stop the opposition getting on a roll against a disorganised defence, and being offside to stop the ball carrier getting to top speed before collision.
Kendall will be making puppy eyes at that dirty •••• O'Loughlin all game and blissfully ignore that every one of his tackles is round the jawline of the ball carrier.
It's such a shitshow of a sport.