Hicks bottled it twice now, two yellows should gone against Tompkins.

There is but I think a lot of credit goes to good defence rather than last years sloppiness in wet weather.

Warrington fans throwing bottles. Classy as ever

Regards

King James

No,Gronk! is right - WTF.

The trip should have been a instant yellow.

The second one is harder to prove but in my view is Tompkins trying to hurt someone but subtle in doing it.

The smiling assassin . The only positive is that his goal kicking is so poor it has handed wire a chance.

Unfortunately they seem so clueless in attack I doubt they will score enough to break Wigan down to get enough points.

aye, where as saints fans punch players in the back of the head.

Only one side was sloppy with the ball last year and that was the team that bottled it.

We were too as well just not to the same extent.

You gonna comment on the game or just troll?

Who is this Tompkins guy some of you are talking about?



As for Sam Tomkins..... the trip was a definite yellow but Hicks bottled it, the knees was accidental IMO and penalty sufficient. His conversion attempts have been pretty laughable as well.

Plenty of manbags on show and couple of bits of quality from Wigan the difference between the teams ATM. If they go 2 scores up I think Wire will struggle to get back into the game.

No he’s not, big games do tend to show more leniency from refs and rightly so otherwise fans would complain about showpiece occasions being ruined by cards (unless they’re supporting a certain team). Maybe only supporters of big teams who regularly compete in big games understand this though

Its TOMKINS for gods sake not thompkins or tompkins.
Christ its not really that hard is it?

I'll blame my poor spelling on auto-correct.

Pretty much summed it up. Trip was a trip, definite yellow. The knees were accidental.

Trip should have been a yellow but honestly regardless of the player, or team, or ref, that was never gonna be a yellow card in a grand final. As daft as that is, as a yellow offence SHOULD be given a yellow, but no ref would have given it in my opinion.
Incident with the knees for my money was purely an unfortunate accident. Anybody claiming otherwise is doing so based on their dislike of either Tomkins himself or Wigan.

Anybody got any suggestions for man of the match yet based on that first half? Nobody stood out at all to me. Somebody needs to take hold of this game.

Well if we treated every game during the season like that,those games won't be ruined either,and more folk might attend games. You don't half talk some carp.

Tomkins can have the benefit of the doubt for the knee to the head in isolation, but when the referee has already warned him to be careful with his tackling technique after he got away with a trip, then the card has to come.

Finals are finals, so the cards are harder to come by and refs may see some advantage in leniency, but dangerous play shouldn't be just accepted in the showpiece events.

And if your Auntie had a penis she’d be your Uncle.

Just admit you want Wigan to lose so are seeing it a certain way. A Warrington player does the same and gets away with it then the same posters are begging for a card.

Correct.

Good defense that. Wire are gonna have to come up with something different to break that line, as they did in the 1st half.

Let's find out!

Warrington lacking any ideas with the ball, think wigan have got this in the can.

Thank you Josh Charnley, let’s see the calls for a card from those on here.

Charnley stayed on his feet did not drop on the player with knees, shins hit him in the head not knees, Tomkins new exactly what he was doing