Hate to say it but this would be a good GF. Changing of the guard and all that. I still think we're definitely/actuslly third best as the league currently reflects currently.

Oh and shouldn't that be a red card and 3 matches for Whitbread? SMH as the kids say.

Matt Peet special

This players staying down nonsense is killing the game. I actually agree with Wilkin about the player having to go off for an HIA.

Yes. If the Vaughan one warranted a Red and 3 matches, the Whitbread one should be the same.

That looked forward

Feigning injury has worked for Wigan.

Once again the ref/dodgy rules gifts a team points.

Oh here we another one coming up

This is pathetic

Was really enjoying that game till Peet asked his players to cheat.

That time of year again - win at all costs Wigan.
Wardle though - what a player - shame we couldn’t have kept hin.

Hull KR have done little in this half - interception aside. Wigan have looked dangerous and probably should be out of sight

Miski dragged him out.

AT least they DO win, though. Like it or not, they're world champions and cc holders.

Guess it helps when you have Voldemort as coach.

Absolutely, you have to begrudgingly admire them for it.
I wouldn’t have fancied us coming back from that intercept.

They have a knack of winning when it matters, by whatever means.

HKR down to 12 for 20 mins did not help.

Well current interpretation you would say 3 but I hope not. Ref says it’s a ricochet so I’m wondering why he got 10 in the first place.

Different outcome if HKR keep 13 on the pitch for 80mins IMO.
I'd love to see a side-by-side comparison of the challenge that saw Vaughen get red and the HKR player only get yellow. No consistency leaves the game open for ridicule and accusations of bias and corruption.

Monday will be interesting.

Ricochet off the Hull KR defender means mitigation, different challenge to Vaughan, though 3 for Vaughan was harsh considering Makinson got 2.

I’m hoping the new season brings different refereeing strategy, if the ref misses it, it shouldn’t be picked up by the video ref, let the disciplinary committee pick it up. Its a real bad look for the game, you can see certain teams play up to it.

100% this. If they do that there is no reason for a player to stay down to get another play sent off.

It's getting out of hand now. This pantomime every week of watching the ref deliberate like flaming judge judy while we all stand and wait around for the inevitable controversy.

It's exactly a pantomime with the crowd booing and hissing until the villain gets his just desserts. Either that or like 1980s wrestling with the feigning of injury then making a Lazurus like return.

The RFL need to find a better way of providing defensive measures against imagined ambulance chasing lawyers in the future, or call it a day.

For starters a mandatory HIA when any card is brandished.