Play on.

Try.

Wiiigan wiiigan wiiigan.

bentham needs to apologise to chase, the salford club and fans! how he missed that is unbelievable, but as flex says, it is wigan!

Was thinking about starting a thread on O Loughlin when he lost the ball and got a penalty earlier, if he can't play the ball quick he throws it away and gets a penalty he does it every game. How long will the refs be continuously fooled by his clean cut image.

I often defend the referees as I think it's a very difficult job, but it was inexcusable to not give that as a penalty.

At best it's obstruction, it could easily be classed as a dangerous trip.

Quick question. Did Wigan have a choice for either a Salford Drop out or play the ball back at the handling error? Is it the refs choice? Salford could of easily got the ball back then which means no advantage for Wigan. I know you don't see it often that you regather a drop out but just a question for you knowledgable fans.

Dire game from the ref, worse from Salford

Refs judgement, was spoken about by cummins a few weeks ago in a similar situation.

Hardly, He's one of the niggliest players in the game. Been at it for years.

I'd go back and actually look at how Chase kicks that ball for the drop out. Does it ever actually bounce on the floor? It looked like he just did a grubber kick from the replays.
But if he did kick it correctly, then yes I think SoL should have been penalised for his efforts. Dangerous contact if nothing else.

dire game all round! wigan arent that great tonight either

Thought I was the only one who saw that. Looked quite clear that he threw it down to me as well. Annoying for us Salford fans how it led to a try as well, we have been awful going forward tonight though.

Don't particularly like Lockers but Daryl Griffins "accidental" brush on a Wigan players chest with his studs after his confrontation was missed too.

Dire game. To be fair to Wigan you'd think it was Salford who'd have had the short turn around.

Some very poor reffing. Both from Bentham and his TJ's.

The penalty for the rip, that was overruled by the tj, only to be shown as a blatant rip was very very poor indeed.

Missed high tackle at the start by Manfredi and looked like there were a few instances of deliberates knees to the head whilst peeling off tackle from Wigan early on (possibly the TV angle though).

As it goes it hasn't impacted the result, but very poor performance.

Play like life depends on it against leeds.

Bend over against wigan.

Standard.

And the obstruction rule changes again (or the VR's interpretation of it).

Correct.

Smith took the return ball on the inside of the passer and ran round him.

Whether or not you think it was an obstruction, the interpretation ALL SEASON, would have seen that scrubbed off.

lol at this thread,

1. Chase didn't even drop kick it grubberd it.
2. o'loughlin didn't trip chase he was trying to kick the ball back to a Wigan player and he made contact with the ball
3. the obstruction ruling was correct and people who don't understand the difference between a run around and a pass behind a dummy runner really need to wake up.

Good to see that it was the Ref who won the game, never mind.

Where exactly is Taylor (IIRC) meant to teleport to so that he doesn't 'obstruct' the Salford defender?

1 - I agree with that, it looked dubious to me.
2 - he did trip Chase, it will have been his intention to get the ball but he did clatter Chase and should've been a penalty.
3 - I was happy with both the obstruction decisions given tonight and thought the VR was correct with both. It's a poor argument for people say they wouldn't have awarded it earlier in the year (maybe they wouldn't) but does that mean they should continue calling them incorrectly or instead turn things around and use a bit of common sense.

Can somebody explain to me why it is a GIMME as John Kear said that Wigan would have a home play off tie?

Saints are above them. Leeds will go above them if they win this week and we will go joint with them on Sunday if we beat London :/

Because no matter the result of the first playoff game, or where it is, the 2nd one would be a home match.



Before someone mentions Wire, I doubt they'll make up the 200 points difference in 4 games even if they do manage to draw level with Wigan.

Maintain my stance, refs was terrible, Salford were worse. Wigan got some decisions I'd be embarrassed by if I were a Wigan fan, but Wigan could of not actually put a team out and Salford would still of lost. Didn't affect the result in any way, but still not good!

And the commentary was as equally painful...