Steveo Made a great comment on air today about the "other Sport" not dealing with forward passes as well as league. This had to be a joke right?



Superleague has been absolutly shocking this year for forward passes. Refs seem to be ignoring passes to allow try scoring opertunities. When are the RFL going to crack down on this? It's making a mockery of the game. What the hell are the touch judges there for?

Rugby Union is a lot worse tbf.

Another ridiculous decision. Another inept set of officials. Rugby League is all about innovating, so how about we become the first sport to do away with onfield officials completely? The touch judge officially responsible for 'missing' that should be struck off. How every single person in the whole ground can spot it but him is beyond me. Or perhaps he did see it fine and just isn't allowed to do anything about it?

Its the inconsistency that bugs me, some teams get away with forwards all the time and then the same referees will pull perfectly good passes as forward for others.

I thought the ref had a terrific game but saints were let back into the game by a Sam Tomkins knoc-on which didn't happen and got a dodgy pen.....



As ever in RL or any sport for that matter, taking your chances wins games. We got battered in the forwards.

All in all, touch judges are useless and are just there now to wave the little flag around and try look important.



The refs ignore them OR they miss every forward pass

they can't tell the ref (or again, are ignored) when the defence are offside.



And as seen in the Dewsbury game yesterday, some don't even know when the ball goes between the posts it's a conversion.

Is this the same ref/touch judge that said Paul Deacon knocked on off his face?

Or did he say Tomkins was accidentally offside

Wouldn't you have had a penalty if this was the case? I'm sure it was a scrum, with a Saints head and feed?

No it was a scrum + S Tomkins was behind Deacon anyway.



Don't hear you complaining about that.