I know a lot of people don't like him but for me he was the only half decent ref. at least he was always consistent that is all you can sometimes ask for. Still stoping on in a coaching capacity so maybe he has got another job lined up

Once teams adjusted to his quick whistle blowing early in games, games that he officiated were generally the best sort of games as it would be a quick game with little messing about at the PTB.

Great referee, the last who realised that you could still be an official and have a good rapport with players. Will miss him on the field, but sure he will do well in his new role. All the best to him!

Shame, good ref who kept proper control, although being in charge of them should hopefully imporve standards. Cummins was an awful ref and awful refs boss.

Mods,

can threads be merged?

my favourite out of the lot by a mile...never afraid of making a decision,a character that will be missed

An awful referee..... often just completely made up his own rules, guessed at decisions, missed so much of what was going on in front of him, was an unbelievably arrogant man, only Ben Thaler is worse.

I'll be glad when he's blown up for his last wrong decision.

Shame for the game, Ganson was the best ref definitely.

Easily the best referee in SL for quite some time. The average standard of SL refereeing just plummeted!

I can't quite believe the love-in here. He is a very arrogant character with 'little man' syndrome who always thought he was the most important person on the field and cravved attention.

Shows the dearth of refereeing talent around that he is now top of that particular tree.

Best ref for miles, shame he has retired.

Yes he was the pantomime villain and invariably you would come away from one of his games discussing one of his decisions but he laid down the law, kept the teams apart and didn't allow much messing about at the PTB.

All we have now is that useless dippo Silverwood you cannot police the PTB, cannot measure 10m and is generally useless. More often than not there is an incident in all his games because the players get so frustrated with his pathetic performance

I am hoping Ganno gets rid of him and teaches the rest what is required