Quote ="red13pjb"Teesside wire has said we should stop conceding penalties and others have said the penalties wee tour and justified. I agree with both statements, however, were Warrington whiter than white?
Only one team were penalised for offside all night, 5 times. For us to stop conceding penalties like this it means us being twice as fit as any other team in SL as we have clearly got to ensure that we get back the full ten while other teams don't. I don't have an issue with being pulled for offside but all teams are offside at most play the balls so it must go both ways.
The other very subtle thing Mr Ganson did was pull us up for offside on 5th tackle. What difference does that make I hear you ask....well, we were offside on tackle 1. Why not pull us then? Pulling us on 5th gives Warrington 5 guess at our line, makes us tackle 5 times and moves them towards half way. A penalty now takes them into our 20 & wil have to do 2 sets back to back tiring us out. Very subtle and largely unnoticed but in this way a ref can influence how the game goes.'"
You make an interesting point, but there may be a simple explanation. Our players have to do so much defending that they just tire more than a team on the front foot, like Warrington, and genuinely can't get back the full ten. This would be more apparent later in the game and later in the tackle count.
To be honest, I only saw Ganson make two errors. The first when he missed the Warrington player put foot to ball and didn't reset the tackle count (the one Michigan Red mentioned). The second was when a Warrington player knocked-on only for them to be given a penalty for us being offside. Our lads didn't cause the knock-on, IMO, so the offside was surely irrelevant and we should have had the scrum regardless of the 'offside'.
None of the above changes the fact that Warrington were bigger, faster (particularly around the ptb) and stronger than us. We were well beaten by the better team.
