Just got back home from the match & what a game it was. From 1 through to 17 the team played so well.
Once we learnt to just play our set of six out instead of attempting the "Miracle Offload" on the first tackle, we looked pretty much in control. This was despite the best efforts of the Officials to give the game to Wigan. I can thankfully say this without it sounding like "Sour Grapes" as we won the match.
Sorry Micky B but for the last 2 games the officials have been very poor.
Talking to the players after the game, they seem so tight & full of belief for the rest of the season.
COYB

I ask the same question, what about the penalties we got? Were they all justified?

Whilst I thought the team all played well, as a team, I agree about Lovell, he may not make the yards he should but he did put in a shift in the pack and in the centre and talked exceptionally well. Abdul controlled the game really well in the second half, Dixon is transformed under the high ball and his speed is such an asset, - he did everything right. Walker, I suspect we will lose him at the end of the season, he is so good - brilliant under the high ball, brave, tackles and has pace - the big boys will be queuing up to get his signature.

One of the best days of rugby I have had for years! Well done to the coaches and the players made me a very happy bunny.

Wigan were disappointing though? One paced, no variety? Jarrod was poor, but the just played one man rugby!

Well done London, any team which beats Wigan will have had to earn it.

It’s nice to see Dixon confident under the high ball. Walker agree was very good. Abdul’s kicking today much much better than last week.
Wigan off colour? Or shut down andnot allowed to play? Bit of both, I think they came down expecting a walk in the park.

Well that was unexpected!

Outside of the first 20 minutes, where we looked overawed, I thought we played really well - tackled well, ran hard, kicked intelligently, got some momentum behind us and played on the front foot. Agree with the earlier comments re Dixon, Abdull, Cunningham, and Lovell's tackling. And, of course, Walker's fantastic display at the back.

Shout outs to Battye for his hard work (uninterrupted opening 40!), Yates for his defensive work (2 fantastic consecutive tackles on our own line late in the first half), and young Butler coming off the bench and really getting stuck in. It's not often you see someone making his SL debut who so gleefully and successfully gets into Sean O'Loughlin's face. Loved it!

Time away has done butler some good he has bulked up a little bit.

So how long were they singin their 'That's why we're champions' song for yesterday?
LOL!

Was Ian Lenagan in attendence?

And I am over the moon at the result, was not expecting that!! We need 7 more wins to secure consolidation.

Oh my god Gutters, you are so exhausting. You are exactly like a Sr Stakeholder of a project I am on where he really does'nt want the project to go live, and just sends us into the weeds at every opportunity.

1. did you work on the Leave campaign during the EU referendum?
2. Are you the Sr Stakeholder I am referring to on a project in Sydney?
3. Can you just go back to doing caption competitions on this forum again? you used to be all about the music then.

Man!!!! you have become boring.

I remember thinking it was a pretty lame effort from the Wigan player who was potentially in a position to get across and cover tackle Dixon. Having watched the highlights I see that was Sammut.

No

So do you think that ref was good ?

I dont want to take this thread down the referee route, like so many previously have done. But i feel compelled to say something - i am not saying he was bent, taking bribes, a born and bred Wiganer or.............. what he was, in the first 30 minutes was inept to a point that i was on the verge of a hear attack!The succesion of penalties against us, not for a single offence but for multiple indiscretions. Yet when Wigan, as far as i could see, did the same thing - every protest was waved away. He very nearly ruined the day.

He did improve, and hence the game improved, last 10 or so minutes of first half and second half were much better, and so was the game. I accept we were our own worst enemies in the first 30mins, we kept dropping the ball, trying impossible offloads etc, but he compounded the situation, but we WON!!!!

All the London penalties were for offences at the ptb, either slowing it down or hands on the ball. When did the penalties stop? When they got put on a team warning! So was that the ref no longer looking for the offences or London stopped offending! Points to me a team that were pushing the boundaries in a certain area, not the ref being poor!
For what it’s worth wigan gave away more penalties than us, by quite a lot, does that mean the ref was biased towards us? So how the ref compounded the situation am not sure..
London got stung by cas at the ptb, they were trying to slow it down, mostly successfully through good play, occasionally not!

LIke I said northernbloke we will never agree. He hit us for minor things and ignored the self same things from Wigan

Lol and the penalty count was still heavily slewed in our favour! So he obviously didn’t ignore everything

The penalty count tells you nothing about how consistent the ref is or what he may have missed.

Watch the game as a neutral not a fan. We got penalised justifiably, so did they. Or are you saying you wanted a game with more penalties? Then he is accused of killing the game.

I would rather not notice the ref at all.

On the whole we were.

The point being Wigan weren't penalised for similar infringements.

Wigan were penalised for the bloomin obvious, no-conjecture type like late hits, off side, etc

See the difference ?

Wigan didn’t need to slow down the ptb, they were winning the ruck generally! Ergo they were not getting penalised for it! Try watching the tackle and where the player ends up, it matters

rubbish they slowed the game down and got away with it and numerous high tackles and jamming players arms so they couldn't get up from tackles quickly and got penalised. there has always been a rule for wigan and s*d everyone else as the decision to give their points back prove. The RFL and referess should all hang their heads in shame for the way they sheild WIGAN

Statistics show London and Catalans get penalised more that any other teams and have done for the past 10 years with different coaches etc

Mac used to moan like hell about it

How does winning the ruck influence how long the ref gives you to clear it ?