This is embarrassing, I got a mate round to watch this game after finally persuading him RL is the game to watch, and he just asked if the refs are always so one sided. How on earth he gave Catalans the advantage after a high tackle in their own 30 on the 3rd tackle I will never know. RL getting the big boys through as usual.

Now that it's out of reach, cue Catalans getting loads of penalties.

Normally i rate ganson as the best ref but he has been very one sided and at times incompetent tonight.

'at times'?

Ganson in two weeks has singled handedly brought Rugby League into disrepute.

I admit we were awful today but it's a shame that Super League have some rubbish referees like Ganson, Bentham and Child...

Classic ganson.

If i was the RFL i would be looking at refs and betting patterns

Yep 44-0 against a very good Catalans team... Wigan were rubbish !

Ganson is unfit to referee schoolgirls rugby!

www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... ml&BID=480 [i Robinson was bemused by the leniency of referee Steve Ganson, who was criticised for awarding too many penalties in last week's tie between Warrington and Huddersfield. "We like to play a similar style to Warrington, upbeat and fast, but you could have all but short of murdered a guy and you wouldn't have got a play-the-ball penalty," he said.[/i

www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... ml&BID=480 [i Robinson was bemused by the leniency of referee Steve Ganson, who was criticised for awarding too many penalties in last week's tie between Warrington and Huddersfield. "We like to play a similar style to Warrington, upbeat and fast, but you could have all but short of murdered a guy and you wouldn't have got a play-the-ball penalty," he said.[/i

He's absolutely spot on.

I,m wondering if Ganson has had a "head count" lately, maybe he is suffering from a bit of concussion some how...............because he was seeing things the majority of us viewers wasn't seeing.

Very gradually over the past 3 seasons referees are having "indirect outcomes of the games", the RFL need to get a grip.

Good interview by Robinson - summed up what everyone outside of Wigan was thinking, without sounding bitter.

Last week Wire wanted fast play the ball and got it, this week wigan wanted slow play the ball and got it.(and every other call they could get)

ganson should hang his head in shame, having just seen the supposed double movement try!

how he can be classed as one of the best is a joke!

Try again.

Robinson was non too happy with ganson on the bbc highlights interview. And rightly so

Dunno about you, but it reminded me of one that was awarded at the KC not more than a month ago.

The way ganson was favouring your lot tonight you should have got more if you were playing that well.

I wonder whether Cummings criticised Ganson's efforts last week and he spat his dummy in response and refused to penalise anything around the ruck last night. Whatever the reason, he's lost it completely (if he ever had it).

Criticism of the remarkable inconsistency between games shown by ganson is quite fair. However the rabid frothings of so many posters saying he gave the game to wigan once again shows the pathetic mob like attitude many people have here.

Ganson goes to the VR on the first cats try after checking with the assistant. Does this mean he was bent or incompetent? The VR rules a player was offside - which he was . Nothing to do with ganson.

Ganson spots a forward pass which was a close call but even wiggy concedes that one of the tv angles shows it is probably forward.

So, while it could have esily been given there is also some evidence to say ganson was right. A little unluck for cats but was ganson bent in disallowing th try - hardly.

The thing that ganson didn't do was stand 30 yards off the play, too knackered to get back in the attacking line - as early as the first half, and continue to do so into the 2nd half. He also didn't flatten the much vaunted catalan pack - that was wigans 13 and 9.

He also missed a huge amount of infringements in the first half especially where he could have penalised cats - and if he really had an agenda to put wigan into the semi he would have done so - and would have been a far less blatant way of doing it.

Better to work youselvs into a frenzy though eh? What will the next wigan lynch mob be for i wonder?
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Just for being Wigan. Thats more than enough

Wigan were the better team and I'm happy to accept, as always, that any bias was subconscious. Or that close calls all going one way can happen by chance - like a normal coin coming up heads or tails 6 times in a row.
Cats were knackered and probably dispirited, in part because every decision seemed to go against them.
The theory that it was blatant indicates the issue wasn't real... hmmm.


A potentially really good game was ruined and a strong Wigan performance has been put in the shadow. Refs, like players, can have bad games - and this was a stinker. I honestly think it was that rather than any great dislike of Wigan. Its not like its just Saints and Wire fans on this thread.