GAME ON : Catalan Dragons v Wigan Warriors - 17:15:00

GENERAL CHAT ABOUT THE GAME, BUILD UP, THE ACTION AS IT HAPPENS AND AFTERMATH BELOW.

Looks like Bentham is flipping the coin as VR today.

I'm sure the ref penalised Tomkins for an extra ten metres and then took Catalans ten metres back to their own line again!

Sin bin must be coming up

The original call was a knock on, you can’t take an extra 10m for dissent, it just becomes a penalty where there offense is.

Ah yes that makes sense, cheers.

Catalans are embarrassing defensively but Liam Moore is giving some bizarre penalties to Wigan now.

An unnatural swing in the game here.

McClorrum is having a great game for Wigan.

Everytime I see Ian Thornley play, I'm amazed he's an SL player

This is absolutely shocking from Catalans. Not seen a half as bad in a long time from any team.

Thornley is a wheel trim, embarrassing. That said, Catalans are the dumbest team in the world giving away penalty after penalty with the game in their pockets.

Wow, would like to see the stats for the last half hour. How many penalties?!! Awful discipline.

McNamara OUT

The first half by Wigan wasn’t great.

Some shockingly one-eyed refereeing going on. The contrast between giving a kick-on against Catalans when O’Loughlin clearly stripped the ball, followed by then awarding a penalty to Wigan when Gigot striped it, summed it up.

Catalans give many stupid penalties away, but somehow this ref didn’t see similar offences when committed by Wigan.

The issue for me isn’t the penalties awarded against Catalans, it’s the fact that week after week, the sides they play seem to benefit from conceding fewer penalties than normal. It’s too consistent to be purely coincidental.

It was bad but this is another level of awful

It's the result that counts.
The red 4/5ths of Manchester, along with the more educated, better raised part of Billinge are very happy tonight.

Put this to bed . With Chorley John . A verified user .. Not one of Johns alleged aliases requests him to send a letter from Carcassonne stamped with the carcassonne timbres to another forum user . Any takers to challenge John ?

If Carlsberg made rugby league teams as crap as their beer....

It would be called Catalans finest

Quite right. The St Helens part of Billinge is very happy. Given that I didn't watch your lot I haven't had anything to dampen my spirits.

That game just shows had bad Catalans are. Wigan looked as good as clockface under 12s. Saints and Warrington would have put a cricket score on them

Regards

King James

Catalan now middle 8 fodder.

Over to you Jean

I have some sympathy with the view that Catalans seem to get the shi77y end of the stick in terms of referee decisions, but by jingo, they must be, collectively, the dumbest team in SL; I don't know how that happens to a group of disparate individuals - some of who you must assume have some rugby smarts - but there must be something about the culture and ethos of the club that makes them play that way.

Either way - that 2nd half was just about the most dramatic turnaround in attitude and on-field performance as you're ever likely to see; as a result, McNamara will suffer the wrath of their emotional chairman and lose yet another job, and the team will be consigned to the 8's - and Jean, like an Egyptian canoeist, will be in denial.

McNamara might blame the ref.

I know who I feel is responsible.