Announced on rhinos twitter, great news eh.

Ian Smith video ref. https://twitter.com/leedsrhinos/status/ ... 2217961472

Ian Smith video ref. https://twitter.com/leedsrhinos/status/ ... 2217961472

was always going to be him or silverwood.
FWIW i thought bentham had a good game on friday

I didn't watching at the game, but when I watched it back he wasn't as bad as I thought.
That's often the case when I'm bound up in all the excitement.

I wonder who he wants Wire to play against in the final ? First we had clubcall, now we have "Benthamcall".

I just want consistency if he's gonna penalise us at the ptb do it for both teams the same with high shots etc etc that was my biggest complaint against him friday night he just didn't penalise both teams consistently for the same offence imo.

As he is from Leigh, which is part of the Borough of Wigan, you may well ask

I'm not aware that he penalised either side for incorrect PTBs.
Both sides were equally guilty of this on Friday, JP scarcely ever plays it properly & LMS must have copied his style.
That is one area (of many) where the NRL is streets ahead of us.
i do agree though that consistency of rightly penalising the head high stuff is paramount vs Wigan.
I don't believe that either us or Saints were too bad in this regard but I recall the last Wigan game where virtually our entire team ended up with cuts to the head.
I know that Hansen suffered too but that was as result of a clash of heads with his own player, I didn't see too many (if any) instances of that being the reason for the Rhinos wounds.

Wigan V Leeds with Bentham in charge:

12-May-07 ..... SL 12 ..... CC - 05 ..... Home ..... Lost 18 - 22
24-Jul-09 ..... SL 14 ..... 14 - 22 ..... Away ..... Lost 28 - 10
29-May-10 ..... SL 15 ..... CC - QF .... Home ..... Won 12 - 10
27-Aug-11 ..... SL 16 ..... CC - Final .... Neutral ..... Lost 18 - 28

I dislike Wigan with an unhealthy passion but do not remember them being any worse than usual. The usual being SO'L putting in a few, pulling his ugly, disgusted face when penalised, & MMc always borderline. Apart from them Wigan are not a physically intimidating side. I never get the 'they got away with all match' argument about any alleged offences. If they are, do the same.

Sorry OF i meant o put in "intefference" at the ptb he pinged Meli once (1st half)and was right to ping Ablett but before that ST's were all over us at the ptb imo especially Soliola.
Now i agree we all want the game to flow but i dont see how ignoring numerous offences by 1 team (after Melis)then penalise the other??
Again i have no qualms whatsoever with the penalties we conceded and could have conceded more but IF you choose to penalise one offence than it has to continue throughout for the full 80 imo.

That was arguably the most shocking big match performance from one of our officials in the past decade.