Re: Inconsistencies : Mon Jun 24, 2019 2:35 pm  

I have seen four times this year a guy called Tom Grant (think that was his name), once in Super League, and three championship matches. He was excellent, and I mean excellent, in all four. How is this lad held back reffing Championship most weeks, and our full time ones keep making errors each week and nothing changes?

Re: Inconsistencies : Mon Jun 24, 2019 4:06 pm  

Gotcha wrote:

We won't get Kendall this Sunday at least, as for some stupid reason he is the face of the game on Sky every week. Worst ref in a long time.

Kendall is the worst. The thing that really annoys me about him is his lack of rapport or relationship with the players. Something Thaler and Hicks do quite well occasionally.

Kendall loves a “DONT SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT OR YOU WILL BE SAT DOWN” or like the other night he had a word with two players and one he said “Look at me, look at me, look at me when im talking to you” and the other, who was pulling his socks up, “stand up and look at me”. Just get on with it man. Hes very authoritarian, which yes you have to be, but his comes with extreme arrogance.

And I also know, for a fact, hes a massive Bulls fan and hates Leeds with a passion. Unfortunately, no matter how much we think refs are unbias, it will always be in the back of their consciousness their disdain for certain teams.

Re: Inconsistencies : Mon Jun 24, 2019 5:02 pm  

Rhinoshaund III wrote:

Kendall is the worst. The thing that really annoys me about him is his lack of rapport or relationship with the players. Something Thaler and Hicks do quite well occasionally.

Kendall loves a “DONT SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT OR YOU WILL BE SAT DOWN” or like the other night he had a word with two players and one he said “Look at me, look at me, look at me when im talking to you” and the other, who was pulling his socks up, “stand up and look at me”. Just get on with it man. Hes very authoritarian, which yes you have to be, but his comes with extreme arrogance.

And I also know, for a fact, hes a massive Bulls fan and hates Leeds with a passion. Unfortunately, no matter how much we think refs are unbias, it will always be in the back of their consciousness their disdain for certain teams.

He's a big Huddersfield Town fan and has had digs at Leeds Utd in the past so probably hates everything Leeds. He's fast becoming the new Russell Smith for us.

Re: Inconsistencies : Mon Jun 24, 2019 5:15 pm  

Bit of an aside but I remember the days when refs could not officiate matches involving their home town club. I knew John Holdsworth's nephew who told me that he (JH) hated Leeds with a passion but never reffed them because of the home town rule.
Next thing you know he suddenly became Mr Holdsworth of "Kippax" and made us suffer accordingly.

Re: Inconsistencies : Mon Jun 24, 2019 5:37 pm  

Refs do best they can. They are humans and the speed of the games make it difficult.

It's very rare a referee impacts the result of a game in my opinion.

People over react about refs. If the ref makes a mistake defend the following set it's that simple.

At Saints on Fri I had a lad behind me who was giving himself a heart attack that we was getting robbed by the ref ffs. Some people are morons.

Re: Inconsistencies : Mon Jun 24, 2019 5:44 pm  

spot on. bias talk is rubbish.
he is simply crap no matter who he refs

Re: Inconsistencies : Mon Jun 24, 2019 5:48 pm  

The thread is called inconsistencies but I totally disagree, it should be consistency.

We are crap, Kendall is crap. Together our games are crap every time.

Re: Inconsistencies : Mon Jun 24, 2019 6:30 pm  

Marty Grrrrrrrrrr! wrote:

Refs do best they can. They are humans and the speed of the games make it difficult.

It's very rare a referee impacts the result of a game in my opinion.

People over react about refs. If the ref makes a mistake defend the following set it's that simple.

At Saints on Fri I had a lad behind me who was giving himself a heart attack that we was getting robbed by the ref ffs. Some people are morons.

Yep totally agree.

Re: Inconsistencies : Mon Jun 24, 2019 6:39 pm  

I agree that refs generally are focused upon too much, they need to get rid of the 'ref commentary' on sky for a start. That said, Kendall is consistently exceptionally crap regardless of who's playing and that's more an issue with any entertainment left in the game when he's done with it rather than the outcome of games.

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Re: Inconsistencies : Mon Jun 24, 2019 7:22 pm  

Seth wrote:

I agree that refs generally are focused upon too much, they need to get rid of the 'ref commentary' on sky for a start. That said, Kendall is consistently exceptionally crap regardless of who's playing and that's more an issue with any entertainment left in the game when he's done with it rather than the outcome of games.

This, this and thrice this.

Captain Calamity Cummings was brought in to explain the rules to the layman but the amount of fog platting he will go through to defend an obvious and blatant mistake is horrendous, hes also about as interesting as a wet fart.

Sky needs to get with the times and get a bit more "pizzazz" , they are deffo moving in the correct direction but getting rid of Cummings is an easy fix to instantly improve things, there are far too many people vying for attention on the mike.

As for blaming refs? they will inevitably go with the team who has momentum, we very rarely are in the ascendancy or have consistent momentum so we are on the wrong end of the stick, this is down to us. I have noticed that a certain team who usually have tremendous form for blaming refs are suddenly quiet as mice now they are currently purring and destroying teams. They just cant see the correlation that if you are in the ascendancy in a game, thus have the momentum you will inevitably get the calls, bend your back, reap the rewards.