Thing is, when a game is reffed so badly/inconsistently, I don't see how you can adapt. It reminds me of a referee we had on one of the ships I served on, if we were playing in a foreign port and he reffed the game, he would overcompensate for being "one of us" and ping us for absolutely everything, while frequently missing the same offences by the opposition, we'd seldom win if he reffed us.. Smales' performance seemed very similar to me.