It looks inevitable that the ESL will end up following the NRL's ref system of two whistle blowers on the pitch.

So when can we expect it to change?

It will really mess up Saints and Hull's games when this happens.

And the refs will appear from where exactly?

Many on these boards don't believe the current crop of SL refs are up to standard, so where we'll find double the number from is anyone's guess.

Mind you, the moaners will have twice as much fodder to whinge about

I would like to see competant touch judges first.

Leeds will be the team to suffer most , no more forward passes and Webb might as well retire

If it cuts out the rubbish at the PTB I'm all for it!!

Webb

The lower grades.

In the NRL over half the refs have made debuts as the pocket ref this season (Klein being the exception).

The fact that there will be 2 on the pitch will make them better anyway as there is less to look at. Very little is missed over there now.

I thought that the magic weekend would have been a great venue to trial it over the weekend with all the officals there to spread out the workload over the 2 days. But as one poster alluded to surely it would help if the linesmen were brought into the game more instead of being the non decision making muppets they are at the moment.

The NRL had to introduce two refs because they'd lost control of the ruck and asking refs to do their jobs – a job which every ref at every grade of RL throughout the world manages to do – and stop the nonsense of playing the game on the ground like some sort of aborted RU ruck, while also keeping the defending team, onside was apparently beyond the abiliities of the drongos they'd employed to referee the game.

No other RL competition in the world has this problem and level of referee incompetence, therefore they don't need the NRL's 'solution'.

hth

They are constantly talking to the Ref's all through the match making judgements for him

Mr Cummins said so on the Radio on thursday night

Our game is so superior to that in the NRL that there is no need to follow their innovations.

As our game continually shows it's dominance and superiority it is the Aussies who should be following any innovations we come up with to improve it further, otherwise we will just embarrass them again come world cup time

Do you mean the ability to lose on a regular basis