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[AckwortRoversFan]

Please discuss

Tonight he was awful. It should have been a celebration of rugby, a game between the two best clubs in the championship, but instead we got a game ruined by a myopic attention seeker, who must have been applying the rules of a completely different sport.

I beg the RFL to employ someone who actually knows the rules of the game for the grand final.

While I'm having a whinge, could the touch judges kindly come on here and explain what they did for an hour and half tonight.

Rant over, please share your experiences of Mr Roby

[The Parksider]

Tonight he was awful. We got a game ruined by a myopic attention seeker, who must have been applying the rules of a completely different sport. I beg the RFL to employ someone who actually knows the rules of the game for the grand final. Could the touch judges kindly come on here and explain what they did for an hour and half tonight.

Watching as a neutral who has refereed both RL and soccer he looks a really good ref and I'm impressed by his calmness when handling the players.

His mistake level was low, one howler was on his blind side, but the game flowed well and the best team won.

Do you referee at all??

[1976PMJwires]

A ref rant...... Do you know Mick Gledhill???


If not I'll text his number to you!!!!

[clement]

Thought he went ok myself.

[cookey]

I too thought he had a very good game.Quite why people with limited intelligence start these threads is beyond me.

[Tommy The C5t]

A ref rant...... Do you know Mick Gledhill???


If not I'll text his number to you!!!!

I think you'll find that I haven't mentioned the officials performances on here for months now Paul.

[Kenilworth Tiger]

I too thought he had a very good game.Quite why people with limited intelligence start these threads is beyond me.

likewise

[ckn]

To publicly answer the messages received, we've never censored criticism of referees' performances, except where it's seriously out of order. Where we do intervene is where there are allegations of dishonesty or similar.

[Number 16]

I, too, thought he had a decent game. He missed a couple things and a couple of the high shots he gave were a bit harsh, but he controlled the game well and let it flow. He's only a young bloke so he's got plenty of time to improve further an I don't think it'll be too long before we see him in SL.

To the OP; the game is crying out for referees so why not give it a go.

[terrywebbisgod]

I thought he had a good game,all refs miss things but as with the majority of posters on here I thought he controlled the game well and let it flow.
Again if you think you can do a better job give it a go.

[l'angelo mysterioso]

I didn't even notice the ref, which is the way it's supposed to be. pens 9 apiece.

there was too much great rugby to enjoy, and Roby seemed happy to let people get on with enjoying it IMHO

[distantdog]

. . . . . and Fev won too! Imagine how poor a game Roby would have had if they had lost!!

I thought he went well, and did ok. Never going to be perfect.

[Bulletproof]

I've seen this guy referee a few times and he only had one bad game to my mind although I didn't see the game last night.

The thing is, in e overwhelming majority of games whether the referee is lenient on one side or the other the two teams are the ones who decide the game and blaming the referee is a smokescreen to hide the weakness of the performance. I've walked away feeling cheated before, we all have, but even in most of those cases our teams simple were not good enough even if things had gone our way.

It's a difficult job and scrutinising the like this is often unfair. Not always, but often.

[Matt J]

Ill have to watch it on sky again, its what he misses thats his downfall.

hes not been forgiven for the Rovers v Leigh match earlier in the season where he was god-awful.

[gazza77]

I've seen this guy referee a few times and he only had one bad game to my mind although I didn't see the game last night.

The thing is, in e overwhelming majority of games whether the referee is lenient on one side or the other the two teams are the ones who decide the game and blaming the referee is a smokescreen to hide the weakness of the performance. I've walked away feeling cheated before, we all have, but even in most of those cases our teams simple were not good enough even if things had gone our way.

It's a difficult job and scrutinising the like this is often unfair. Not always, but often.

Had a decent enough game from where I was stood.

Even when winning, some fans just like to moan about refs. Go to games as a neutral, and most of them suddenly do a decent job most of the time...

[AckwortRoversFan]

To the OP; the game is crying out for referees so why not give it a go.

May have had a couple of pints more than is usually polite when I posted that last night, he did really spoil the game for me though and the TJs may as well have not bothered turning up.

Roby was awful for both sides and going to the third umpire for a knock on decision in the middle of the park is symptomatic of his lack of skill, in my opinion.

As for me trying reffing, not sure the beer belly and dodgy knee would stand it and the taunting I'd get for eating all the pies would be quite intolerable

[pg2090]

As for me trying reffing, not sure the beer belly and dodgy knee would stand it and the taunting I'd get for eating all the pies would be quite intolerable

The coward's excuse.

[simonwref]

always been impessed with roby, tbh.

[The Parksider]

I think you'll find that I haven't mentioned the officials performances on here for months now Paul.

I thought you gave the OP a green +1 this morning? Did you remob=ve it?

[oiseau]

thought Mr Roby had a decent game as usual

every Toulouse game i've watched him ref has been great - certainly not the worst in the league,in fact probably vying for first place alongside Matt Thomason IMO