For winning Wigan the Challenge Cup.

makes a nice change from the doing Leeds bidding throughout the year

Wigan won the cup but they have nothing to be proud of today as they were helped along the way by the inept officials. After the first 20 mins Leeds were the better rugby playing side. A great pity the game was spoiled by the decisions of the ref and if you watch the game again you will all see why.

The Wigan haters are out in full force tonight.

coming from a leeds hater

I ain't a wigan fan but apart from the finch kick what else did wigaan get today in most finals a team will get a contentious decision.remember when Chris joynt threw himself on the floor against Bradford should of been a pen to Bradford get over it and move on it was a great game of rugby

I hate both Leeds and Wigan (and Cas) but it was awful to see such a great game be decided by 3 dubious calls.

I don't hate anyone.

We own the RFL.

What about Elima when he kicked Leon Pryce in the head when Prycey was lying on the ground with two wakey players on him? You must have disliked him strongly at that time?

Would be hard to explain the rules to someone who had never watched RL before while watching the 'showpiece' game today

The pass was forward and the touch judge was blind but everyone seems to be forgetting one of Leeds trys should have been dissallowed as I think it was abblet didnt even play the ball earlier in the set

Disgraceful officiating. Don't know how Bentham got the gig in the first place. Reffing a final usually easy job. But he was hopeless. It's already been said about a 1000 times about the TJ's. How Hicks can get a decision so wrong when he's a metre away from it is laugable. And him & Childs are full time refs!! Wigan were very very lucky today.

Ball played the man. Easy.

I dislike some players/teams but hate is a very strong word

Yes i know the ball played Burrows. Then it came off Charnley anyway. Even the MOST hardent Wigan fan can't deny they got a lot from the officials today

Read it in the papers is i think is what they say

I thought Burrow played for it, and it went on to hit Charnley before going off.

If Burrow did not play for it then it makes no difference anyway - the ball plays Burrow, then plays Charnley, then goes off...remember it was a 40/20, so put-in to Wigan.

We'll do what we want.
We'll do what we want.
We're Wigan Rugby
We'll do what we want.

Should of been a penalty to Wigan. Burrows tackled Charnley without the ball

Of course, no-one mentions the wrong decisions in the first half that went Leeds way... or indeed Ryan Hall's second "try". Never grounded in a million years, yet they have the audacity to only give "Benefit of the Doubt" to Tommy's try?

The only thing I will say is the forward pass to Lima should have been picked up. I think that almost makes us even.

Both Ryan Halls trys were forward but no one seems to have noticed.

I also thought that Bentham never once pegged Leeds for offside all the match. Leeds are not that fast.

The Lima try was slightly forward but Leeds should have tackled him. They had 2 forwards who missed the tackle completely.

Wigan were very under par today. The pack lacked some go forward IMHO.

I also question whether Hall got the ball down for his try. Looked to me like Charnley had his forearm underneath it and then he rolled him into touch.

The injuries to lockers & Mossop had a lot to do with that, I think. Not seen the TV coverage yet, but it looked like Lee had done his shoulder again.

Seriously, your either extremely childish or just plain stupid.

I'm sure you couldn't do any better at officiating but if you think you can I look forward to seeing you have a go.

Refereeing a final is not an easy job at all. Bentham had a good game and could not be held responsible for the Finch 40/20 call. That was primarily a touch judge call.

Whether he got it right or wrong doesn't matter now. Everyone makes mistakes and bad calls - they are only human. There were also a couple of calls that went against Wigan but half of this forum are too busy in the pub to bother moaning