Bent, incompetent, take your pick. Don't like calling refs bent, but c,mon. Lets say for the sake of argument... INCOMPETENT.. Sky commentators couldn't believe it, I don't think McQueen could believe it, anyone in their right mind who saw it couldn't believe it, but Kendall??? Oh dear..Mr Kendall..he dropped the bleeder! Or maybe it went backwards err no it didn't. Just glad it did not cost us this time. Well done boys. more wins please.
This decision was one of the worst that I have ever seen and in 60 years of following Hull KR I've seen a few. I've seen decisions over the years where they were so bizarre against us I can only conclude that the referee has been bribed. A strong opinion I know but it has to be said. We never get the 50/50 calls. When there is something dubious then surely you give the decision to the defense. There were 2 other games that Kendall could and should have been given to officiate at. You should not be allowed to officiate a club for whom you have played for; supported or come from the same town. It stops any allegations of bias and cheating. Our home game with St Helens played at their ground let's see if our "away" fixture gets reversed! In the early 1980's we lost a cup game to Leigh to a last-minute penalty in front of the posts. The referee had travelled on the Leigh team coach! The RL is totally unprofessional and officiating is simply unfit for purpose. Until the referees are brought to account by being made to explain the rationale behind a decision the game is doomed I'm afriad.
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The standard has been set now, obviously the knock on rule is being interpreted correctly. If the ball is not propelled towards your opponent’s end of the ground it’s play on. That now means that a player dropping the ball to the ground is not now ruled to have knocked on? That is a completely different ruling to what the rest of our game expects. Time for Kendall to be sacked.
Beverley red wrote:The standard has been set now, obviously the knock on rule is being interpreted correctly. If the ball is not propelled towards your opponent’s end of the ground it’s play on. That now means that a player dropping the ball to the ground is not now ruled to have knocked on? That is a completely different ruling to what the rest of our game expects. Time for Kendall to be sacked.
Yes I agree with all you say yes sack him and do not let him near the game again the guy is Tripe he nearly cost us the game
Glad you got the result, as a Huddersfield fan i was cringing and certainly NOT shouting 'that's a try' for Mcqueens knock on, both VR decisions were totally wrong which 99% of people could see including Huddersfield fans. You have a decent side this year and should go ok.
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Hmmm.
You can possibly make a case for each of the two decisions individually, and that is how decisions should be assessed. The Linnett no try is a real stretch in my opinion, and Gaskell’s flop should have made it harder to overturn the on field decision. It’s one of those that the justification has to open with ‘Technically...’. The McQueen try was a 20-80, but I recall us getting one when Liam Watts scored for us a few years ago - maybe away at Castleford. That may have been before on field calls were sent up and it was still try or no try. The two together, both overturning on field decisions, from a VR from Huddersfield isn’t a great look.
Still, we won and I imagine there’s more than enough spite and bile about it on social media, so I’ll let it go.
Although we shouldn’t (imo) have been in that position, we dodged a bullet on the last minute strip. I did wonder if English was being cute and let it go a bit easily, and whether the same thought occurred to the ref. I also wonder to what, if any, extent the ref was aware that Kendall’s decisions might be consider ‘questionable’. We were playing with fire though! Nice not to get burned for once.
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Chris Kendall the former Huddersfield Giants player and current Huddersfield season ticket holder should not be allowed to officiate in games involving Huddersfield Giants.
His Bobness wrote:Chris Kendall the former Huddersfield Giants player and current Huddersfield season ticket holder should not be allowed to officiate in games involving Huddersfield Giants.
If true I agree with you but knowing the idiots in charge they will not see anything wrong with him doing so
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