no charge for watts, or any other player from the game looks like they realised it was a wrong decision by the officials, (not that they will say that) www.rugby-league.com/article/509 ... rs-charged

no charge for watts, or any other player from the game looks like they realised it was a wrong decision by the officials, (not that they will say that) www.rugby-league.com/article/509 ... rs-charged

NO CHARGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoop whoop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you RFL:

1. for seeing sense
2. for helping to cost us 2 points

Unbelievable
Maybe shamed by all the media attention.
just need Carlos to be fit
Hope Masi gets a bench spot and Connor keeps his place at right centre

Great news! Never doubted that it was a ridiculous decision!



I am now questioning if the result of the Wigan game might have been different if we had had 13 men though. But look, that has gone now, no changing it, bring on Wakey!!!

Great news but we lost the game, a critical game, predominantly because we were down on energy in the last ten minutes because we had played a man short since the first half.

We've been robbed again by the officials, after last week and Burrows not getting ten minutes for what was nothing short of an assault on Connor but then being charged afterwards and it happening at a time when we could have gone on to win the game for me at the very least it's just unfair!

Its worrying that the best referee in Super league is Bentham yet it was his call as the video ref that gets Watts sent off and possibly costs us the match.

i think we would have won if watts had stayed on, mcilorum was out for the match, his own fault unfortunate for him, powell nowhere near the hooker mcilorum is plus they would be one interchange down.

guess we will never know

Would love it if they refs had to apologise to the player and the club for these sort of incidents. Couldn't get to the game as I'm out the country, but sounds as though we'd have won with 13 men.

So that's three red cards for Watts this season, and two of them have been the wrong call. Seems he's definitely got a target on his back from the referees.

We certainly ran them impressively close with 12, can't say we would have won, but as has been said, it's done now. We've been ripped off by officials too often this season.

Call it a conspiracy if you like, but I believe Liam got off because if they charged him they couldn't have not charged SOL for his assault on Marc. They're bent and we all know it.

The whole system is ridiculous though, because how can it be Sending off sufficient .....sufficient for what, when there's no mention of foul play?

Richard Silverwood just agreed that they could have said "No charge on-field decision incorrect!" At least that would have been an attempt to gain some respect back!!

So they don't charge him they're wrong, and if they charge him they're wrong. Gee.

The only Wigan incident reported in the disciplinary summaries is the the Sean O’Loughlin late tackle on Sneyd in the 2nd minute.

I've been trying to get my head round that as well. It sounds like you can be sent off for accidental/unintentional contact with the head.

No, the RFL create situation where they are indefensible, and most RL fans are sick of it!

As I added just now to my above post

Richard Silverwood just agreed that they could have said "No charge on-field decision incorrect!" because by what they have said it was and at least that would have been an attempt to gain some respect back!!

... just looking again, the decision is "charge", and the outcome is "Sending off Sufficient".


Sounds like sending off is always a "charge".
Or, to put it another way, sending off has never ended up with "no charge, 'cos the ref got it wrong".

Didn't hear many saying that on the 26th August, despite many referres and ex players saying so.

Funny how we latch onto the disciplinary/what ex pros and refs and pundits have to say when it suits us.

The disciplinary doesn't charge Watts and it's the correct decision and proves that the red card was silly but when its a player playing for another team who gets the same it would be that they have no bottle (see the ridiciculous notion that he only wasn't banned so that they didn't have to ban Sean O'Loughlin...who has been banned before).

You can't possibly say that going down to 12 men cost you the game. It didn't against Cas. I've seen countless teams win with a player down.

.... if it's any consolation, I didn't think Clubb scored a try, it was a loose carry and he lost the ball.

In open play it would have been a knock on, and never mentioned again.

Neither did I, I bring it up as an example of how suddenly, all these ex-pros/refs/pundits saying Watts shouldn't have been sent off are correct but they weren't when they were all (including Lee Radford) saying it should have been given.

its all ifs and buts ,wigan should never have been in a position to score their last try at Wembley,should have been a drop out,instead of a 20m tap.you lost the main event .get over it.

They were wrong, simple.