While we're on the subject of refs and reffing decisions can anyone explain whether I have the following right or not

Friday's game about 54 minutes:

Wigan kick to corner
Charnley palms ball back to Goulding
Goulding kicks ahead
Hall knocks on attempting to pick ball up, scrum Wigan.....but

Charnley was in front of Goulding and within 10m of Hall so surely it shold have been offside, penalty Leeds

None of the commentary team picked it up, but I've watched the replay and I'm sure it should have been our ball

but hasn't he had a tendency to allow only our opposition to slow the play the ball and penalised us

yep. appallingly one sided at wembley and last week. that nice mr cummings bollocked him for failing to do the job properly last week so is giving him another chance this week.

Puletua had been involved in the previous tackle and was stood at marker.

Apart from the markers the St Helen's defensive line was stood a fair ten metres back as the ball was played although as I previously noted Thaler was stood deeper.

Hopefully the referee will have taken some instruction this week on how to measure an accurate ten metres if he expects the players to be in line.

It was shaping up to be a treemendou defensive set before Thaler intervened and two tackles later Waterhouse was rubber stamping the game changing moment.

you should know its not actually about how far back you should be, rather how far back the ref says you should be

Am I following your logic correctly here...because Sinfield was going for a match winning drop goal Myler has every right to be offside and it's harsh to award a match winning penalty in return for denial of a match winning drop goal?

Can I have some of what you're drinking