Widnes Vikings v Wakefield Trinity Wildcats 8pm (SKY)
Ref B Thaler TJ J Child TJ T Martin RR P Marklove VR I Smith TK A Mills

Ben Thaler??? amazed!! I was expecting Richard Lewis or Nigel Wood!!

You can stop moaning about Stobart now

or Eddie Stobart

Not sure about gentle Ben, it could have been a lot worse, but it could have been better.All I ask is for a fair crack of the whip and hopefully we will be talking about the game and not the referee.

He's not perfect but it could have Bentham or Terry Albert or James Child....first game of the season Ben should be ok!

He was watching the game at Batley. Hope that's not a bad omen.

J Childs Touch Judge? have they realised he aint up to being ref.

I aren't hoping for much, we all know that the refs and the rfl get their heads together to spoil the first few rounds, with the whistle taking centre stage.
I wonder what rule will be enforced to kill the games this year???

we will probably get mr child constantly(10+) flagging for some trivial infringement, which will have been completely forgotten about by round 3, with eddie and stevo harping on about "interpretation of the rules!"

Exactly what I was about to say!

That just reminds me of the start of last year, when we played Cas and there was something like 40 penalties called, the ref even seemed to be making new rules up on the spot last year.