Absolutely delighted that we won so that I can call out the biggest most blatantly bent and biased bag of b*llocks I have ever witnessed from a referee without coming off as a sore loser.

We need to put in an official complaint in about that clown today. Conceding 13 penalties in a game is completely unacceptable, conceding 13 penalties IN THE FIRST HALF is an absolute disgrace. These weren't for foul play, they were arbitrary, technical offences that were ignored when London did the same thing.

We conceded 10 penalties IN A ROW, lost 2 men to the sin bin for team warning in the process and London scored 14 unanswered points in that time against 12 then 11 men.

I am normally reasonable with regards to referees once the final whistle goes but that today was a disgrace. We were reffed out of the game for the 1st 40 minutes and I would have been livid if we had lost today.

Don't want to take away from London who were well drilled and genuinely impressed me. I am sure they were as frustrated by the stop start nature of the game as we were and they came damn close to turning us over.

But that today was unacceptable from the man in the middle and it is a long time since I felt so aggrieved at a ref and it felt like a 'victory' against him that we eventually got the win despite his best efforts. Hope we don't have him again any time soon.

Rant over

I was so exasperated that by 30 minutes I'd give up complaining about the decisions. Shocking stuff. I was specifically watching for us being offside after a string of decisions, and if we're giving those situations as offside then there's not a legal defensive line in the sport.

Carefull reffy will be on defending him.

Were we down to 11 men?

I think Weston came on just as Unit got his yellow...

I know everyone around me was becoming totally exasperated with the whole affair.

To be fair, he played the second half less studiously but with so many stoppages and not knowing how long was left the last set we played out to the hooter was met with him grinning as he couldn't be bothered to get London onside at each PTB and in a game that tight it still could have cost us.

I'm still tempted to say we should have figured out a lot quicker just how he was officiating and been more canny but we put ourselves under a fair amount of pressure too.

Pity George has recovered from his injury that he had last season, when he was a video ref for most of it.

You really are an old fool with a chip on your shoulder for some reason. Stokes is a competent referee but he had a continual brain fart in the first half, he definitely got on a roll of incompetence. However it doesn't excuse the poor discipline of the team, there were a hell of a lot of penalties but the ref didn't make them all up.

There is only one f in 'careful' perhaps you should take f off.

Correct, they virtually crossed.

As you know, I'm not Leigh's biggest fan but regarding George - I hear ya!!

We had a spate of refereeing performances from George at home which were quite frankly disgraceful. He seemed to revel in being an "away ref". We've not had him for ages. Thank God.

London 'milked a few' like trying to play the ball within half a second of being tackled and a Leigh player on their back.....PENALTY !!

Don't speak to soon , you'll probably get him next week.

The simple fact is, that on most occasions in the 1st half we gave Stokes the opportunity to penalise us, one of the worst 40 I have seen from Leigh in many a year.

On the positive side we won that gave by playing about 10 mins in the 80 - the rest was woeful. We don't have to be world beaters at this stage, play discipline and structured and we would win most champ games at a canter (no disrespect to the other teams).

I'm willing to wager that, by the end of the 80, he'd penalised London as much as us, for 'technical' offences. What puzzles me (to put it mildly!) is that one team picked up two 'team warnings' resulting in pretty quick sin-binnings, while the other team picked up none?!

Also, it's fine for a ref to take the defending team back 15 metres, and for them to be three metres in front of him, but when he only goes back 6-7 metres and they are still three metres in front of him......!

I'm afraid that, if you are an afficionado of free flowing rugby, you won't get it with him dishing out penalties like there's no tomorrow. If he reffed a SL game like that - and he is a full time official - it would probably be the last one he did ref.