Smith was checking that he still had ten fingers and trying to come who with excuses for dropping the ball





As for your last statement shows you have jumped on the opinion bandwagon and don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

what facts that you won penatly count 10-5 double the penalties!!!! and smith with his 10 fingers up everytime to try and get one of cas players sent to sin bin. they are the facts.

you missed the point so I will spell it out

YOUR LAST STATEMENT WAS ABOUT MANCHESTER UNITED READ IT AGAIN AND MY REPLY WAS ABOUT THAT STATEMENT, simples.

I listen to the game on radio whilst at the game & Jack & Trevor both thought it should have been a Salford ball, they remarked something like both officials must have blinked at the same time & missed it

YES I KNOW IT WAS IM SURE I SAW JEREMY SMITH OUT ON PITCH AT CARRINGTON TAKING LESSONS FROM RONALDO BEFORE HE DEPARTED ABOUT GOING UPTO REFEREES ASKING FOR BOOKINGS/SINS BINS

I think the sight of people only having ten fingers has frightend Phil.

phil i dont like 2 see players asking for other players sent 2 the bin but the point is castleford gave away 3 or 4 pens in about 10 mins for the same infringment(spell check)which was around the ruck and teams and fans start 2 get fed up when nothing is done about it.

Yeah and we were fed up of not getting them for exactly the same offences.



our players were getting frustrated about being held down all the time thats why ryan hudson was trying to get them out of way you didnt see us asking for salford players to be sent to sin bin.



Prime example was when mike wainwright had got up to play ball stood on his feet was pushed back to ground by salford player no penalty



10-5 penalty count was a joke both teams were doing exactly same as kevin sinfield said when leeds penalised all time we doing same as every1 else but not getting away with it.



I am not saying we didnt deserve some of them he even missed a flop by brett ferres which would have given you a penalty but no player should be asking offical to send opponent to sin bin.

and have i not agreed with u on that 1.the problem u have is when a team loses its supporters always look for a scapegoat which 90% of the time is the ref i have been watching the game long enough now to realise that in some games u get some decisions and in others u dont. dont bother screaming and shouting at refs anymore because he wont change is mind but when u play the bigger teams they seem to get more of the big calls,we all slag refs off look at the probs cas had against catalans with the ref it doesnt work just ask justin morgan,wasnt a bad game considering the conditions but the best team won.

You really are an idiot, aren't you?

Salford couldn’t make any meters from the play of the ball as Cas were constantly offside which means Cas had territorial advantage for most of the game. Cas players kept pushing Salford players over after tackles had been made meaning they were out of the game and extra meters could be made by Cas. As a newly promoted team it was only a mater of time before this started to reap rewards for Cas.



It only happened because the ref was so poor and Cas took full advantage (fair enough). As a paying spectator though I feel cheated that a game has been heavily influenced by the ref and not a superior team or moment of magic.



I don’t mind mistakes being made by the ref as we all make them, but incompetence is not excusable and ruined what could have been a close exciting game.

On the night Castleford deserved to win, having said that Hewer had in my opinion a very poor game, and the two linesmen were even worse.



Smith was only stating what should have been obvious to the referee and that is persistent holding down is usually a yellow card offence and this is what Cas were doing all night.



Towards the end Hewer made the penalty count look better for Salford by using the old ploy of evening things up a bit.



The linesmen/touchjudge's missed many items such as Cas getting head and feed after booting the ball dead amongst other things.



They also missed a blatant obstruction on Sidlow when he was following up a kick through in their dead ball area.