There are so many errors in your version of events I can’t be bothered to point them all out.

But as far as the Griffin sending off this is what happened. After the hooter Griffin took out his mouth guard and walked towards Kendall. This wasn’t done in any aggressive way and he appears to point towards the big screen and a point on the pitch whilst saying something to Kendall. What I don’t know but then he turns away and starts to walk off. Kendall calls him back and shows him a yellow card. Griffin continues to walk off throwing his arms in the air and saying something. Again Kendall calls him back and shows the red. You make it sound like Griffin stood there arguing with him while Kendall told him to walk away which is just not correct.

Now I’m not trying to say what Griffin did shouldn’t be punished, and a big factor is what he actually said, but I just want consistency and we are seeing quite a few incidents where players argue decisions with referees and NEVER get punished. Dodd did it and nothing was said.

The only ones that know what was said are Griffin & Kendal as the touch judge wasn’t in ear shot as he was behind it all bent down picking the ball up with his back to everything. So unless the RFL have recording it’s difficult to know if the versions given by Griffin & Kendal differ which is the truth. If the touch judge says he heard it then I’d be very surprised as he must then have bionic hearing given the noise at the time.

The more you watch it I just don’t see that Griffin could have said enough to warrant the yellow unless it was pretty severe language. As for the red Griffin was already walking away so can only imagine Griffin was chuntering away to himself as he was walking away and Kendal misheard or misinterpreted this but even that is some feat at the speed Kendal got the red out.

When Carlos goes to speak to Kendal you can hear audio of Kendal seemingly say it’s dissent.

For all the ones saying Griffin has previous then he’s not alone as so does Kendal for mis hearing a player when he carded Bateman.

Yes Griffin should have known better but Kendal should have the skills to be able to handle and speak to frustrated players. Players and officials are all humans and as such are fallible.

It also makes the allegation that Griffin mouthed off at Brett Hodgson at training more credible given the two recent incidents

He alluded to his difficult relationship with Hodgson just last week on Hull Live



He needs to watch his mouth on the pitch but I'd still like to see him sign for another year. Done really well this season.

Quote: Magic Superbeetle "I’ve held my tongue in this thread as fans are entitled to their opinion; but what you have written is beyond the pale. Let’s start with the Fash incident. It’s a red card every day of the week. Direct contact with the head with the shoulder whilst prone in a tackle. I don’t think it was a particularly dirty play, but Fash went for an aggressive, dominant tackle and got it completely wrong, leaving a player stone cold K.O.’d. I truly don’t understand how Kendall got to on report; because either he’s penalising contact with the head and it’s a red card, or it’s a knock on, there’s really no inbetween. Those calling “oh the ref shouldn’t have sent Griffin off for the sake of the game”; that good grace was used for that tackle. After we took the 2; you knocked the ball out on the third tackle which Kendall ignored and you took the ascendancy. Then you have your second try which Kendall sent up as a try; when McIntosh knocked the ball forwards into Mata’utias forearm and it then went backwards to Savelio, which was ignored/ not overruled due to the silly guess work rules refs need. And then you get to the insanity that was the Griffin incident. Kendall told him to walk away, he kept gobbing off so he sin binned him. He [istill[/i kept gobbing off, and gave Kendall no choice. There is a massive difference between challenging decisions and calling the ref a joke (an abbreviated version of what turned a yellow to a red I believe). If a saints player had done it I would have had no issue with the ref standing a player down like that; it’s a slippery slope in letting comments like that go and it turning into football. And as a final point on “Saints got penalties close to our line; we only got penalties coming out of our own half”; I could debate the pros and cons of each to be honest, but I think the BBC put stats up half way through the second half that showed Saints had had 4 times more play the balls in Hulls half than vv. You tend to win penalties where you have the ball and Hull had the ball in their own half a lot and Saints had the ball in Hulls half a lot. I get all fans see biases and inconsistency with refs; the Saints fans have a particular conspiracy with the disciplinary but generally I think that gives far too much credence to the RFL. I totally accept my counter points are a very Saints centric view of things as well, and that the reality is somewhere between the two of us. There were mistakes in Kendall’s game (yep, Batchelor did shoulder charge Fash, should have been a penalty) but they cut both ways, and in the big moments did well enough. Kendall didn’t lose you the game; Griffin did.'" Maybe you should have held your tongue a bit longer! seems the panel found no wrong in the Fash incident, like most knew! https://www.rugby-league.com/article/61 ... view-panel https://www.rugby-league.com/article/61 ... view-panel

Quote: Magic Superbeetle "I’ve held my tongue in this thread as fans are entitled to their opinion; but what you have written is beyond the pale. Let’s start with the Fash incident. It’s a red card every day of the week. Direct contact with the head with the shoulder whilst prone in a tackle. I don’t think it was a particularly dirty play, but Fash went for an aggressive, dominant tackle and got it completely wrong, leaving a player stone cold K.O.’d. I truly don’t understand how Kendall got to on report; because either he’s penalising contact with the head and it’s a red card, or it’s a knock on, there’s really no inbetween. Those calling “oh the ref shouldn’t have sent Griffin off for the sake of the game”; that good grace was used for that tackle. After we took the 2; you knocked the ball out on the third tackle which Kendall ignored and you took the ascendancy. Then you have your second try which Kendall sent up as a try; when McIntosh knocked the ball forwards into Mata’utias forearm and it then went backwards to Savelio, which was ignored/ not overruled due to the silly guess work rules refs need. And then you get to the insanity that was the Griffin incident. Kendall told him to walk away, he kept gobbing off so he sin binned him. He [istill[/i kept gobbing off, and gave Kendall no choice. There is a massive difference between challenging decisions and calling the ref a joke (an abbreviated version of what turned a yellow to a red I believe). If a saints player had done it I would have had no issue with the ref standing a player down like that; it’s a slippery slope in letting comments like that go and it turning into football. And as a final point on “Saints got penalties close to our line; we only got penalties coming out of our own half”; I could debate the pros and cons of each to be honest, but I think the BBC put stats up half way through the second half that showed Saints had had 4 times more play the balls in Hulls half than vv. You tend to win penalties where you have the ball and Hull had the ball in their own half a lot and Saints had the ball in Hulls half a lot. I get all fans see biases and inconsistency with refs; the Saints fans have a particular conspiracy with the disciplinary but generally I think that gives far too much credence to the RFL. I totally accept my counter points are a very Saints centric view of things as well, and that the reality is somewhere between the two of us. There were mistakes in Kendall’s game (yep, Batchelor did shoulder charge Fash, should have been a penalty) but they cut both ways, and in the big moments did well enough. Kendall didn’t lose you the game; Griffin did.'" Maybe you should have held your tongue a bit longer! seems the panel found no wrong in the Fash incident, like most knew! https://www.rugby-league.com/article/61 ... view-panel https://www.rugby-league.com/article/61 ... view-panel

exactly, worse case scenario was a fine, but even the panel could see he was in a position of no fault of his own, makes Wilkin and Peacock look a bit foolish too claiming it was a red all day!

Josh Cator got a lot of reports from the game!

Grade F is laughable, unless he said something racist orvalong them lines, it's really excessive, the fact he will get more than someone who headbutted someone twice or a two spear tackles that could have broke a players neck so what a joke the disciplinary is.

Cator - No tripping motion was made.
So why did they get a penalty for it?
A lot of the time the MRP minutes show up how many decisions the refs really get wrong, bit rarely do they get dropped.

Be interesting to see the transcript. I am sure the club have requested the audio from the referee mic

Common sense regarding Fash's tackle, no mention of Batchelors clear shoulder charge...

And how about Walmsleys knees on Trueman?

Just shows that they both talk absolute poop, I said at the time you only have to look at Fash to see both his arms are trapped in between his body and Percivals, even Percival had hold of Fash so how any of those eejits on the BBC couldn't see that just shows they lack any credence and ability to be impartial.

Think it’s a vicious cycle with refs. The more they face dissent and consequence, the harder recruitment and retention gets, and the standard drops even lower. We really are in a sorry state when Thaler is the best ref now.