M Alibert : Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:43 pm  

Just an observation about a man who I consider to be one of the worse refs I have ever seen. ( I can go back to 1976 ).

Last week in Hull he time and again called players back who where off side. He rarely penalised the player(s), as the player would stop in his tracks and try not interfer with play though he clearly was.

He did this again tonight when a Saints player was off side. This was on Wakefields last play and resulted in Danny Brough kicking out on the full. This I believe was because the offside player was interfering with play and caused DB to rush his kick.

The resulting scrum lead to a try for Saints from a forward pass.

Alibert ( if you watch it again) can be heard shouting to the Saints player that he is offside. After the kick he should imo have penalised Saints as there was no advantage, and DB was clearly effected by the on coming offside player.

They same happened last week at Hull.

If a player is offside he should be penalised as he must be interfering with play.

This is not an issue that would have altered the result tonight, but it could have. Does anyone agree.?

Before commenting try and watch the incident again. It was the try that gave Saints their 30th point.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:57 pm  

I thought tonight he was entirely random.

I wouldn't say he particularly favoured any side, just missed some really easy calls (those two stripped balls from Wakey WTF?).

Not a good performance at all, but as you say it hardly influenced the result.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:06 pm  

He gave Ashurst offside when he was clearly down injured on his knees?

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:06 pm  

Mister Terry Alibert certainly made some strange decisions tonight.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:16 pm  

Barnacle Bill wrote:

Mister Terry Alibert certainly made some strange decisions tonight.

i'm am totally bemused as to how the hell did he get to be a ref nether mind a super league one

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:48 pm  

feel he's getting a fair amount of stick cos he's french.
go on the wigan boards. the ref tonight is kooping all kinds of flak.

Re: M Alibert : Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:53 pm  

RENDELL wrote:

Just an observation about a man who I consider to be one of the worse refs I have ever seen. ( I can go back to 1976 ).

Last week in Hull he time and again called players back who where off side. He rarely penalised the player(s), as the player would stop in his tracks and try not interfer with play though he clearly was.

He did this again tonight when a Saints player was off side. This was on Wakefields last play and resulted in Danny Brough kicking out on the full. This I believe was because the offside player was interfering with play and caused DB to rush his kick.

The resulting scrum lead to a try for Saints from a forward pass.

Alibert ( if you watch it again) can be heard shouting to the Saints player that he is offside. After the kick he should imo have penalised Saints as there was no advantage, and DB was clearly effected by the on coming offside player.

They same happened last week at Hull.

If a player is offside he should be penalised as he must be interfering with play.

This is not an issue that would have altered the result tonight, but it could have. Does anyone agree.?

Before commenting try and watch the incident again. It was the try that gave Saints their 30th point.

Don't worry he evened it up in the 2nd half when he gave a penalty against Ashurst when he was injured and twice gave Wakefield the possession when they reefed the ball with more than 1 in the tackle.

He made some very bizarre decisions against both sides tonight, I must say.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:00 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

feel he's getting a fair amount of stick cos he's french.
go on the wigan boards. the ref tonight is kooping all kinds of flak.

The same was implied this week on the Quins site. I am not having a go because of his nationality, and to suggest as much is frankly pathetic. The guy is totally out of his depth (imo) He should not be allowed near a BARLA match let alone SL from what I have seen.

If anything it is tokenisum (sp) with SL Europe wanting to show its ethnic diversity by having a French ref. Out with the Aussie lets have a French man. Its back firing badly imo.

His performance last week at the KC was shocking and tonight he was average at best.

Give me Klein anyday

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:00 pm  

He is absolutley Awful didnt understand some of his decisions

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:03 pm  

RENDELL wrote:

The same was implied this week on the Quins site. I am not having a go because of his nationality, and to suggest as much is frankly pathetic. The guy is totally out of his depth (imo) He should not be allowed near a BARLA match let alone SL from what I have seen.

if he's not up to it he'll be demoted soon or replaced come the end of the season.