Are all Wigan fans on first name terms with the players?

Having 3 brothers in the first team squad makes it easier to call them by their first name than their second.



Anything else?

No try for me. Clearly hit the ground then kicked it. I was under the impression that a drop goal is when the player kicks the ball the same time as the ball hits the ground otherwise couldn't you let the ball have one bounce and then hit it?



I still remember in 1997 away to London broncos James lowes was denied what could have been the match winning try because the ball hit the floor just before he kicked it.



Also if you lose control of the ball and kick it before it hits the floor i'm pretty sure it's still technically a knock on. i remember getting pulled on this a few years ago but can't fully recall.

lets be honest...wigan got all the decisions tonight......



they didnt play well and they were helped by quite a few decisions from the officials.



i watched the game with a neutral view tonight..... wigan got away with some very dubious decisions.



it was a shame really.... it was a great game of rugby.... hand on heart i thought leeds did enough to win.... some very debatable calls for a few wigan tries.



thats rugby league though.

I am not a neutral , but ..



Let's say that Sam was attempting a grubber kick , and just after he dropped the ball (with the intention of kicking it) Danny tackled himfrom behind WHEN HE DIDN't HAVE HOLD OF THE BALL . Is that a foul by Danny for tackling him when he didn't have the ball ? is it a penalty try ? He clearly (as it turned out) would have scored despite the foul .



Thoughts ..

Sam had every right to tackle him there, he still had the ball in his hands when Sam dived to tackle him.

Rovers scored a try from a drop/grubber kick against Leeds in our first super league season. It went to the video ref that day and was given as a try. Everyone in the commentary box seemed fine with the decision and there seemed to be no controversy about it. Just shows the inconsistency again in the decisions.

I thought there were quite a few decisions that would have rattled each team. Alibert had a bit of a stinker, but then I fully expected that having not jumped on the "Alibert is the greatest ref ever to have lived" bandwagon that seemed spring up this season. Apart from his fitness he's got nowt. And if it weren't for the touch judge advising him (touch judge doing his job eh?) he would have awarded a try to McGuire and we'd be saying Wigan were robbed by bad reffing.



I agree with you about Leeds, and said to the missus in the final minutes that they'd done enough to win; then again, by the same token, with a scoreline like that Wigan obviously did enough to not lose. Neither side dominated the other enough to claim a clear victory.

Would a try of been given had the game not been on sky?

The game tonight had mistakes and errors from all involved.



That's the RL game and how it is.



And the next one.

The more worrying thing for me is that the Wigan player interviewed thoiught it was a try in real time, the ref wasn't sure but the linesman saw something in a micro second to go to the VR, but failed to see the most obvious forward pass right in front of him. Selective sight maybe.

It wasn't the same linesman