The only controls a ref has in a game are penalties, yellow cards or red cards.
After the first "brawl" Child yellow carded a player from each side the next time it happened it should gave been a red card to a player from each side.
By the time you get down to 11 v 11 the players may decide to play rugby instead of fighting.
I've seen it done before it works.
I wouldnt ask the ref, if I genuinely thought they were in danger I would aim to help. Odd that a player who ignored the ref all game suddenly when his family are in danger starts to respect the refs wishes
Flaying arms and mouthing off on the edge of trouble did nothing to help
Last edited by Upside; 7th August 2019 at 08:49.
I do understand your point, and agree to a point, not sure a ban isn't the right thing but it should not be ignored
Turning a blind eye, ignoring or justifying swearing or other poor player behaviours is the thin end of the wedge, it's allowing lateness because it's the buses fault
I think the suspicion subsided when all he saw was quite a few Warrington Morons in the top 2 rows attacking the VIP boxes. Players from both sides were making gestures to calm things down but the fans in the scuffle were facing the wrong way to take any notice. I noticed Bird was alongside Hill making calming gestures but he ended up pushing Bird in the back I don't know what that was about.
Warrington are in the top 4 for the most ill disciplined team in superleague, 5 penalties minimum on Thursday they go top for that negative statistic.
An utter farce.
Firstly, it is Hill in the 15th min that high tackles Simon (ref awards penalty). No reference to this in the disciplinary report.
Secondly, Simon is under Hill the whole time during the initial scrap on the floor, and it's Hill who moves his head into Simon's (not exactly a head butt, more a pressing of his head into Simon's face). Hill also slams his forearm into the face of Simon. Yet they decide that Simon butted Hill? Seriously? From a prone position on the floor?
Thirdly, Paddy Whack's high tackle on Akauola wasn't any worse than Hill's on Simon (or than several each week)
Finally, no mention of Hill's 'foul and abusive language' towards Child.
Did Cullen go into work that day in his Warrington top?
Re Edwards, not guilty even though he almost started scrapping with his own team mates when they tried to stop him!
How does the committee come up with these decisions, it's ridiculous. As with the Hill/Simon situation Webbo's mentioned above, they defy all sound logic. I'm sure 99% of folk would disagree with those outcomes so what does the panel see that the rest of us don't? Bizarre, corrupt, inept.......or all of the above?
"Never write off the Saints!!"
Absolutely spot on. It is clear that the RFL are not going to take the correct action, despite calling the incident "Appalling". This is why our game is going backwards. We need people who want to officiate (not exactly an advertisement for backing the ref from the RFL) we need people to want to come to games with their children and we need parents to encourage children to play the game (within the rules!). Instead of doing anything positive to encourage these groups we get the RFL using kid gloves against players who behaved disgracefully. Okay no one was seriously hurt, so what? Next time it could be a lot worse. just an awful day for the sport. We've got a rough, tough physical game, that in my opinion is the best in the world, but it's got to be played by the rules, or it isn't a game, it's a fight.
Maybe he could have been stronger, but for th players to ignore him shows a lack of basic respect for the official. Players ignore ref, ref gets the blame, team loses head, coach blames ref, it's purely victim blaming. It's similar to saying it's a woman's fault for being attacks as they walked around in a short skirt at night, it's his fault I ignored him!!
The French TV company covering Catalans home games has now decided not to continue. It means that no more Catalans home games will be on Sky. No indication if this is just coincidence or fall out from Saturday.
Humans are more concerned with having than being.
The only thing that this all proves is just what an utter farce and disgrace the RFL disciplinary is.
Learned comment from The Don
https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post...ns-st-gaudens/
'beIN Sport will stop their live coverage of Catalans from next season after being asked by Super League chief Robert Elstone for more money. It costs around €20,000 to produce a game in Perpignan, and viewing figures in France aren’t making it worthwhile. With Sky using the beIN feed to show the games, it could mean a significant reduction in coverage next season unless a replacement broadcaster is found.'
To be fair, that's been common knowledge for quite some time.
I've never gone in for all the conspiracy theories but something is really not right with this shambles. I've also never rated Childs and he's made plenty of mistakes in the past but the way he's been treated is quite honestly shocking. I wouldn't blame him for quitting but what I think would be more appropriate was if all referees made a stand and made all games this week kick off 15 mins late as a show of strength to the RFL.
I wouldn't be surprised if Child referees our game against Leeds the week after his demotion to the Championship, goes into discipline overdrive going yellow and red card crazy, and a couple or three of ours cop bans for Wembley.
It's in the script........
"The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom." Danny Blanchflower.
Might have been written by a footballer about football - but never a truer word............
James Child has refereed six championship games this season already, there's no statement saying he's been demoted he just been assigned the match.