McNally charge with Grade C contact with a match official!!! I give up on the disciplinary process - there were about eight head injuries in that game, yet the only serious offence would appear to be injured pride, on the part of the ref! www.rugby-league.com/article/398 ... rs-charged

McNally charge with Grade C contact with a match official!!! I give up on the disciplinary process - there were about eight head injuries in that game, yet the only serious offence would appear to be injured pride, on the part of the ref! www.rugby-league.com/article/398 ... rs-charged

Quote Alan="Alan"McNally charge with Grade C contact with a match official!!! I give up on the disciplinary process - there were about eight head injuries in that game, yet the only serious offence would appear to be injured pride, on the part of the ref! www.rugby-league.com/article/398 ... rs-charged'" refs are a joke what was greg supposed to do let them score

Quote Alan="Alan"McNally charge with Grade C contact with a match official!!! I give up on the disciplinary process - there were about eight head injuries in that game, yet the only serious offence would appear to be injured pride, on the part of the ref! www.rugby-league.com/article/398 ... rs-charged'" refs are a joke what was greg supposed to do let them score

Terrible decision

Better still get rid of him, I cornt stond him. It's never been this bad. Too many issues with officiating every week.It wasn't like this when Ian Smith was in charge

The ref stood in wrong place if Gregg had left it they would have scored
He also did this in field twice yesterday
Poor positioning no need for him to stand there at all seeing we had in goal officials

Didn't Riddy 'make contact' with him, later in the game?

Gregg McNally charged with Grade C - Contact with Match Official (Early Guilty Plea available). If guilty, the recommended suspension for Grade C is 2 or 3 matches with reduction by one match by playing the EGP card.

I am now desperate to see the match video to confirm what I believe I saw no more than 20 metres away from our position in the Stand, behind the sticks that Leigh were defending. McNally must decide in a split second how to defend a kick through on the last by Salford with the referee in a direct line between himself, the ball and the kicker.
In the event, with the help of a shove on the ref, Gregg managed to scramble the ball dead. Had the ref not been so badly positioned I believe Gregg would have collected the ball and run into the field of play from the in-goal, on the first tackle. The ref awarded Leigh a drop out from under our own sticks - arguably adding further insult to injury. The referee was not knocked over or injured in any way.

Chris Houston (for Widnes v Warrington on Thursday) who cleaned out the ref, running a defensive line he could have probably avoided, is up for Grade D - Contact with Match Official (EGP not available). The recommended suspension for Grade D is 3 to 5 games.
Houston had conceded 3 penalties earlier in the same game and I guess will be panned for a 5 game ban on the basis that he could have been taking retribution for feeling hard done-by earlier.

With the RFL current purge on the 'Contact with Match Official offence' there is every chance Gregg with get 3 games reduced to 2 with the EGP. At a time when I can't recall refereeing standards being so poor, I am not sure what the outcome will say about our sport.

Exactly as I saw it PTB. Maybe the ref was badly positioned, maybe not. But surely he was clearly obstructing McNally from doing his job. Surely, common sense will prevail?

................. and maybe McNally was badly positioned, maybe not.



Either way he should escape punishment.

Be interested to know who files the actual citation. Maybe one for Reffy this. Is it the ref himself or one of the other officials?

I'll plum for the Match Commissioner..

I reckon it's [iIan Lenagan[/i on the [iLatics Batphone[/i to [i5 Bellies[/i at RFL HQ.