Lautiti threw the ball away twice, Lee Smith once and threw an upper cut at King nothing done with any of those incidents.

Ablett threw a punch at Grix that connected as well!!!Nothing done about that as well.

Can somebody explain the decision to award Leeds a scrum after Child shouted "held" and then the Leeds player passed the ball? I thought that was a penalty to us.

He was okay, Leeds fans will say he was crap - he wasn't, everything he pinged them for was correct.



It doesn't help that you half expect him to burst into the second verse of 'The Snowman' when you're watching though.

The ball was being passed as he shouted, however it was a bit rough on us as it was the 4th tackle. As a result we had to defend 10 tackles through no fault of our own.

Just read the Yorkshire Post report of the game which is scathing against Mr Child. The only cause for complaint by Leeds that I could see was the Morley tackle on JJB which was high, however the penalty was given to us because of JJB's massive dummy spit.

The Smith/Hodgson thing was just stupidity by Smith. He was tackled 2 metres short and then came so far off the mark that, if he had played the ball, he would have been over the tryline.

Far too many sly digs in the tackle and whinging from Leeds throughout the whole game, nothing to do with Mr Child.

I have to admit that Childs was poor last night. We won so I haven't got a beef about him, but tbh if we had lost & got the decisions against us that Leeds did I would be mightily upset!

Highly inconsistent in his application of the rules. Not good enough for this level.

thought you said bacon, then.

What Teeside Said.

I was wondering that too, because it gave Leeds an advantage. They were given another set from the scrum, so essentially had 9/10 tackles straight. If we are held can we just throw it out and be gifted 6 more tackles?

On commentary, Eddie and Stevo said that the rule has been changed this year. It used to be a penalty to the defence, but a scrum to the attacking team is now awarded. This seemed really unfair, particularly on the fourth as we had to defend almost a full extra set of six through no fault of our own.

His can't be right... At the time I thought that it must have been on the first tackle that he shouted held... If it was on the 4th tackle surely it should be tackle 4 still when the ball comes out of the scrum.



This would appear to be the most ludicrous rule in rugby league.