Cobb : Sun Sep 06, 2015 8:09 pm  

It's all well and good moaning about the ref today but it was like every match something that was within our control.

I've said it before and I'll say it again it's time to make the refs get changed in the pavilion so that they have to walk through the crowd.

See the way Cobb hung around today looking worried about walking down the tunnel? He knew he was going to be on the receiving end of a well earned and deserved barrage of abuse.

The thought of doing it and being completely exposed to the home support would put him off reffing in the pretty despicable manner of today.

Re: Cobb : Sun Sep 06, 2015 8:23 pm  

I know we are all a bit wary of being called sore losers on this one, and there was a poor performance from us after what we've seen 2 weeks ago, but Cobb has to be seen as having ruined that match. It could have been a great contest and the refereeing was incredibly one sided, the quick taps being a prime example that particularly smarts

Re: Cobb : Sun Sep 06, 2015 9:01 pm  

Give over.

Only a completely biased idiot can come away from a match where we were outscored ten tries to two, and try and pin it on the ref.
Widnes outclassed us in every aspect of that game today, Cobb had nothing to do with the result.

Re: Cobb : Sun Sep 06, 2015 10:12 pm  

Guess who the ref is on Saturday....?

Re: Cobb : Sun Sep 06, 2015 10:29 pm  

Nothus wrote:

Give over.

Only a completely biased idiot can come away from a match where we were outscored ten tries to two, and try and pin it on the ref.
Widnes outclassed us in every aspect of that game today, Cobb had nothing to do with the result.

This. I disagreed with a couple of his decisions, but then I'm biased and he isn't.

Re: Cobb : Mon Sep 07, 2015 2:42 am  

Nothus wrote:

Give over.

Only a completely biased idiot can come away from a match where we were outscored ten tries to two, and try and pin it on the ref.
Widnes outclassed us in every aspect of that game today, Cobb had nothing to do with the result.

Nobody (that I have seen) is remotely pinning our defeat on the buffoon Cobb.

Everybody is saying he ruined the game, and we will never know what sort of a game it might have been over 80 minutes, because of his antics in the first half. He DID ruin the game. I went to watch a rugby match, where a competent ref would remain pretty anonymous, be even handed, and let the game flow. Instead, like thousands of others, my concentration became centred entirely on the cretinous nincompoop in the middle.

I do wish people would stop conflating the very justified diatribes against the appalling refereeing with any suggestion that this caused us to concede 50. That's not the point at all. Cobb probably didn't have anything to do with the result. He did however have everything to do with the ruination of what could have been an enjoyable game to watch.

Re: Cobb : Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:34 am  

How exactly did he ruin the game? By calling our forward passes forward?
I'm struggling to think of any decision Cobb gave that could be seen as him 'ruining the game'.

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Re: Cobb : Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:41 am  

The commentator on Radio Leeds did seem to think the Ref made some tough calls against the Bulls, especially
in the first half and start of the second half.

Re: Cobb : Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:55 am  

My problem with Cobb was he reffed our game differently to the way he reffed the Halifax/Salford game the day before. If he'd reffed our game like that one, I would have enjoyed it more.

How can a ref change his style? or did the teams change the way the game was played? Was Cobb mentally tired after 2 games in 24hours? Or was it the linesmen?

Re: Cobb : Mon Sep 07, 2015 8:19 am  

TBF isn't it the linesmen who give forward passes?