Having a blinder for salford.off sides holding downs and stopping us playing on when it seemed certain we would score but gave us scrum

Or perhaps we should stop conceding penalties early in the set or when we lose possession. Can't blame Hicks for us cocking up our last winnable game of the season.

Thought we were on the end of some tough calls but that's the way it goes.

Thought the penalties in that 1st half was really the only difference between two poor sides. 2nd half was ours and the penalty from Annakin followed by his miss on Hansen let Salford off the hook. Game changing moment for me.

I thought he was really poor. Until players appealed he wasn't doing anything and then jumped to a guess.

Pulling us back when he were clear after their knock on cost us.



Mostly though not picking their off sides an holding down cost us most.

There certainly appeared to be two different sets of rules being applied.



How he didnt give us a penalty near our own line when riley was trying to get up to play the ball and sau was all over his back and pullled him back down I wi never know.



He also seemed desperate to find one of his officials who could give him a reason to disallow tge try in the left corner

Plenty of spoiling tactics being applied by Salford today specifically slowing down play of the ball, Sau trying to milk a penalty on several occasions too. Salford were there for the taking however we just wern't good enough still, atleast the scoreline was a little closer this week.

Worst bit was he finally gave them a warning so that he didn't penalise them again until 5 mins to go!!!! He really is shocking!!! Pita and Jacob took two hits to the head and he did nothing!!!

Absolutely disgusting display of refereeing today, I'm quite sure every penalty he gave against us would have been the correct decision, it's not a case of what he gave them, but what he did not give us, I'm not going to list them because I simply can't be @rsed anymore and those that went saw what I saw, and what he let them get away with was nothing short of criminal, fwiw a display like that in football would have seen him down graded for next week.

I thought this was going to be another ref bashing thread, but by the sound of it even the new coach wasn’t too impressed.



So either Hicks didn’t get a grip or Mr Smith has jumped on the whinging bandwagon.

Hicks was rubbish.

The offsides were a joke and Salford were bossing him. The worst reffing display I have seen this year but when I saw he was in charge and Childs on the touch line I didn't expect anything.