The pen at Wakey was a joke to be fair to him and I’d rather look at the ridiculously dumb performance for the 79 minutes and 55 seconds before that. I’d also look at games like Wire away and Good Friday before looking at the two games you mention. He was absolutely immense defensively and you need that in play off rugby.

That game still hurts, not to mention the ridiculous knock on call in GP that pretty much decided the game.
On Shorrocks, think he’s been at the centre of a bit of unfair criticism, the harsh penalty at Wakefield, was unfairly sent off in the semi final, and just not found his way back in with the squad being settled and playing well together, I’ve heard he’s had meetings with Peet over his future though.

He did pretty well off the bench on Friday, setting up that Mago/Powell try. I think he'd be the best bet for a bench spot too. I do wonder if he'll end up at Leigh.

That’s what the chat with Peet was about apparently, wants to play week in week out, can’t blame him, it’s a short career and was open about how much he enjoyed those couple of weeks at leigh.

Would be gutted to lose him. He’s a fantastic utility

Liam Moore the man in the middle

I’d be worried if Shorrocks wasn’t talking to Peet about his future.
I think that it will be difficult to keep him.

Brilliant, card carrying Latics fan for our biggest game of the season. Some will still say the RFL don't have it in for us.

How does this arrogant clown get all the big games? He's useless

I actually think he is one if the better ones, could have had kendal and the toss of a coin on what rules he plays to

I don’t believe the whole he’s a fan of x so he’s obviously going to be a biased against us. Ref make poor decision but I think they are let down by the technology they have at their disposal. I still don’t understand how when try’s go to video ref the video angles and quality are unreliable. Surely they have better cameras available

Liam Moore is probably the best ref. I don’t buy all that “he’s a wiganer so hes trying not to be biased towards us” apart from the Shorrocks ref card in the cup semi, I don’t think he’s got much wrong in games he’s reffed this year for us. He knows how to let big games flow, he was very good in the Salford v Wire game the other week.

Certainly don’t think he’s arrogant, in fact he seems to get on pretty well with the players and has a good manner, unlike guys like Kendall and previously Child. He’s a dreadful ref for us though and maybe that’s our style of play not marrying with his reffing style. We can’t seem to do much right when he’s in charge. Is that a ‘I’m not a bias Wiganer thing?’ Maybe, maybe not but it’s never easy for us with him in charge.

Not sure thats true anymore. I think he has now gone the other way. The recent Wigan games that I've watched where he has been the ref I think you've had more than your fair share of decisions.

Possible rain tonight?

The one thing bothering me is our performances in rainy games, semi final especially.

Rain forecast all the way through the game tonight, BIG concern as our wet weather play has generally been poor.

BBC says the rain may die out by 8pm.

My weather app has the rain gone by 7pm

hope so, been raining pretty much all day in Standish

I've had a bet on Catalan and Wigan to win. It comes in and I double my money. The bet loses and we get a home SF (providing we don't lose!)

Agree. I'm happy with him, he's certainly better than most of the rest.

Moore is really awful

They keep going on about Leighs disallowed try for obstruction but what about jai try for obstruction!!! To be fair both where wrong calls

100%

A joke no try for Field lead to a joke no try for them.

Leigh’s was more a try than Wigan’s, Leigh’s was 100% a try in my eyes and it shows how much the refs call swings these decisions.
Our defence was great tonight but slightly worried we couldn’t grind them down and get some points on the board the second half, I do think Leigh kept pulling out some great plays on the 5th tackle in the last quarter which kept us from really dominating territory and their defence was also very good.
It was a good warm up for the play offs, hopefully nobody too banged up and we can maybe get some bodies back in 2 weeks.