Re: saints v catalans : Sun May 10, 2009 10:41 pm  

lpage wrote:

The mistakes were shockingly one sided. A invisible forward pass which cancels an opening try for the Dragons, two penalties given to the Saints in the Catalans' 20m for balls which were not clearly in Saints hands (each penalty ending in a try for St Helens), and others...
The Saints are already good enough. We don't need the ref to remove any hope of winning the game

Like you ,probably, I watched it on the BBC. The invisible forward pass,as you call it, looked forward to me. The incident when the young Saints centre stole the ball however ,and,which resulted in a penalty to Saints that led to a try I agree was wrong.

The ref was even handed imo and even with you reffing you must agree who would have won.

: Mon May 11, 2009 12:54 am  

Nothing wrong with the ref today at Saints he had a decent game
if you want to call refs look no further than......................
LAUGHTON....CHILDES

: Mon May 11, 2009 8:18 am  

Well it does not look forward on the replay, nobody in the BBC studio thought it was forward, and many English fans thinks the ref handed too many decisions to the Saints http://www.totalrl.com/index.php?showtopic=175705 They certainly do not need it. For me the ref killed the small chance of competition there was in this match.

Well it does not look forward on the replay, nobody in the BBC studio thought it was forward, and many English fans thinks the ref handed too many decisions to the Saints http://www.totalrl.com/index.php?showtopic=175705 They certainly do not need it. For me the ref killed the small chance of competition there was in this match.

: Mon May 11, 2009 8:51 am  

lpage wrote: Well it does not look forward on the replay, nobody in the BBC studio thought it was forward, and many English fans thinks the ref handed too many decisions to the Saints http://www.totalrl.com/index.php?showtopic=175705 They certainly do not need it. For me the ref killed the small chance of competition there was in this match. More important than that was Meli caught the high ball more than once in 80 mins and it stayed in his hands........amazing

lpage wrote: Well it does not look forward on the replay, nobody in the BBC studio thought it was forward, and many English fans thinks the ref handed too many decisions to the Saints http://www.totalrl.com/index.php?showtopic=175705 They certainly do not need it. For me the ref killed the small chance of competition there was in this match. More important than that was Meli caught the high ball more than once in 80 mins and it stayed in his hands........amazing

: Mon May 11, 2009 9:00 am  

Good call on the Cats player batting the ball back into play after the short kick off though, my immediate reaction was "WHAAAAAAT???" but a moments thought and I'm convinced he was right.
Cats were robbed on at least one of the two occasions where both players had a call, but I'd agree about the forward pass in the run up to the disallowed try, I shouted it as soon as it happened. IIRC there was another earlier in the move that was missed too.

Saints were always going to win that, but Thaler didn't help.

: Mon May 11, 2009 9:50 am  

Thaler is probably the best ref we have in RL at the min and yeah he did make a couple of mistakes but compared to NL refs he's light years ahead. Wait till Childs is in SL then you'll see some top errors, also on the topic of refs thought Ganson was a little weighty when i saw him reffing last weekend, those split fish and curries but be taking its toll on him.