Is he infallible ?

In this respect yes. He makes the decision as to what the interpretation is, so by definition his interpretation is correct.

As you say its an interpretation, but as the officials at the game, the commentators and all other media who i have heard said it was a knock on then I would have to think that Cummings interpretation is a poor one.

Doesnt matter if you dont agree with it. Im sure there are rules and interpretations in the game we all disagree with. It doesnt alter the fact that they are the rules and they are the correct interpretations.



Its all irrelevant now. Sometimes your on the right end of a wrong decision, sometimes the wrong one, it happens.

Correct. All I am trying to say though is only one man, being Cummings, thought it was a try out of all officials at the game and the commentators. Why his ideas are different from the vast majority, I dont know. Like you say though its irrelevant now. Just hope the Wembley result isnt decided on a refs call

To be fair to him. It is his job, and it is something we as a game need to have. An overall arbiter who 'judges the judges'. Where the game goes wrong I think is at times it treats every contentious decision as ultra-important and sometimes finds ridiculous ways of the referee being right when in fact it is ok if referees make the odd mistake, teams have 80 minutes to win a game, we shouldnt be so hung up on the referees influence. It is one area we are probably behind football in that bar an absolute disaster of a decision (either giving or not giving a clear goal/not goal) referees mistakes are pretty much accepted as part of the game.

Was praying it wasn't Bentham for several reasons. As Hogan said if we are true champions we should still win, however, Bentham will do his very best to make sure we dont, common knowledge that the guy hates Wigan.

Last season we lost every game he reffed.

This season we have won every game he reffed. (IIRC).



We'll be reet!

Leeds would have walked to Wembley naked if they could have Thaler as ref.

at the end of the day I can't see Bentham making any decisions that will threaten his career as a top referee, it's just a too high profile game. It's the 50/50 VR decisions that could go either way.....

I can't believe people are moaning about the choice of ref. As long as we do our job, we get on top of leeds and we keep our discipline it won't matter one bit who the ref is!

This.