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Ian Watson says he may talk to referee boss after St Helens defeat

Huddersfield Giants coach Ian Watson is under huge pressure according to Sky Sports pundit Jon Wilkin.

Huddersfield Giants find themselves wrapped up in a battle for the top six with Leeds Rhinos, Warrington Wolves, Hull FC, Hull KR and Salford Red Devils for a spot in the top six.

However, their play-off hopes were hurt by defeat by Super League and World Champions St Helens.

The Giants lost 32-18 to the Saints in a game where everything seemed to go against Ian Watson’s side.

They had Matty English sin binned for a cannonball tackle and then Joe Greenwood was sent off for leading with the elbow.

Ian Watson wasn’t happy with this and felt that the six again worked against them.

He was asked if he would talk to referee boss Dave Elliot.

He said on BBC Radio Leeds: “I think they should be good enough. As coaches, what you want to do is review your team and say where we kind of fell down. What you don’t want to be doing is reviewing the game for the RFL.

“They should be big enough and good enough I know Ben Thaler has been a referee for a hell of a long time, I’m sure he’ll have a little look at it but for me we’ll mention it but I’m not going to be going into detail.

“I think that’s one for them to kind of have a look at but I would like him to look at the situation with Joe Greenwood because for me it’s not good enough.

“We’re getting Matty English sin binned for going in there because that’s kind of tackle you class it as kind of a cannonball tackle, that was outlawed that. So I get totally why they’ve had a little look at that and why he’s even sin binned him because you can see he’s lost his legs on the back of it.

“But what I can’t understand is then why’s that not been a sinbinning for Delaney I think it was, who struck him straight in the face. Or even Morgan Knowles, the way he’s reacting on the floor on the back end of it.

“So we’ll see what they come back up with but I just thought it kind of maybe spoiled the game of where it was at that time to be fair because then we had to start mixing things up again.”

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