Agree re his ref performances this year. Something pretty dramatic has changed from last season as I would have said he was our best referee of the last couple of years until this season - Wonder if its got anything to do with the issues following his disciplinary last year for the incident at huddersfield?



He was definately influenced by the romance of the cup last night and was definately making some decisions with his heart and not his head IMO - Shouldnt happen with refs but then I guess it is human nature - Feel the video referee also seemed to be the same.



All in all though it made for a good game and kept the romance of the cup- better than us turning up and drubbing them IMO - I would have been fumming if some of those decisions had influenced the result!



As its turned out cant be too concerned because there was no harm done and many of those fans will remember last night for many a year....it was clear to see how proud they were coming off the ground last night and so they should have been - they were brilliant.



Just another example of awful refereeing but then again we've seen that again on the TV today - Stuart Cummings is the problem - once of the worst refs for 20years somehow got the top job and then we're surprised by the standard of refereeing - Only in RL!!!

ThinK you are doing our boys a disservice by trying to blame the referee for the scoreline. Yes he made mistakes, for both teams but we certainly wouldn't have been on the end of a drubbing.

If you think that refereeing performance was poor then you need to get out to some Championship matches.

He made some howlers for both teams, Finn's ball strip should have been pulled back, but then again Tomkins knock on went un noticed, despite his linesman being right on top of it.



And where the back to one call came from when Leulei knock on came from I don't know, but I do know that it gifted you a try.



I'll echo what Phil Stone said, if you think Silverwood was poor, get a long to a few Championship games, after a few, you'll revere him as a refereeing god.

Went last night and watched it again this afternoon, at the game thought he was very poor, I saw the ball steal off Finchy from the stand how the ref and two TJ's don't see it I don't know, what I did see this afternoon is that he got things wrong for both sides.

As we all know the standard of the officials , that includes TJ's , is getting worse , I think the RFL should get rid of Cummings and get some new ideas in there, also some competition for places for the refs.

Fev gave everything, the conditions were difficult, and we had to work very hard to get the win.

Well done Fev.

That isn't the point though, is it?

Not seen the game on tv, but can anyone shed light on the actual penalty count please?

LOL they did influence the result, massively in Wigans favour.



Dodgy penalties, missed knock ons, strange back to 1's.



watch the game again and look how Wigans gained their field position before most tries. He penalised the hell out of us in the second half



All Fev fans I spoke to after the game were moaning about the ref battering us



You guys should stop moaning about him and thank him for preventing a humiliating loss.

9 - 8 in Wigan's favor I believe.

He let a hell of a lot go at the ruck which just wouldn't be allowed in Super League. Championship standard rules by a championship standard referee. Wane and Tommy are certainly unhappy about his performance in the post match interviews on the SL website

Wigan fans moaning about the ref !!! Go bang your

There have been moans after every game this season, not just this one. If you think the level of officiating is good, you will be in a very small percentage of fans.

I have watched the game this morning, I think to be fair there were some poor decisions but to say it was a biased performance is as stated before in this thread is doing Rovers a great disservice, sadly the standard or officiating in this country is miles behind that of the NRL, does anyone else think we should follow the 2 referee option as in the NRL, this I think has sped up the game no end down there.