Never seen so much Yorkshire bitter! Laughable, you can't half tell Wigan are top of the pile again!!!

We are playing within the rules folks. Sorry but its true, unfortunately the rest of the league needs to catch up

It's a shame that for all the really decent and genuinely nice Wigan fans out there, there seems to be one of you. Shame really because I genuinely have a lot of time for your fans and your team.

You can't argue with folks concerns with regards to player safety - even a few of the coaches have come out and criticised certain techniques that they believe are causing problems. Is it a coincidence that the rate of long term injury seems to be on the increase at the moment? I don't have any figures but I daresay there are quite a few teams missing a few players, yourselves included.

As I said elsewhere, the real cause of all this bickering between fans and animosity towards certain players is purely because the interpretations of some rules are simply not clear and therefore not consistently enforced.

On numerous occasions our player was held up by two men, only for a separate wigan player to strike at the legs. I believe this 'Cannonball' technique has been banned in the NRL?? ... Not entirely sure. Its certainly the type of contact that Ritchie Mathers has been campaigning on twitter to be banned for the last 3/4 weeks.

On numerous occasions undue pressure was applied to our players in the tackle. This undue pressure was, im my opinion, the cause of Jake's injury with 40 seconds to go.

Certainly not sour grapes, We’ve just competed for 80 minutes with the Superleague champions with 10 first team players in the stands, 8 home grown players on the pitch that are under 21 years of age. I’m Chuffed to bits!

What I do feel, is concerned. Concerned for the welfare of players taking on wigan. Although the techniques you are using are not illegal, they are certainly dangerous and not in the spirit of the game

From all the threads they've taken over spouting the everyone hates Wigan crap I've come to the conclusion that Wigan fans are the biggest set of know-nothing in professional sport.

is that from someone who knows something?

this given by someone with an american football avatar,
yeah like im going to pay attention

You don't even know me pal!

I'm not arguing with your concerns about player safety, I'm saying Wigan are playing within the rules of the game..Fact.

You are very wrong about the rate of long term injuries within the sport, there are far less now than there has been. Find me an injury in super league this year that has been caused by poor tackling technique.

You're right, I don't know you. Nor do you know me so why you're referring to me as 'pal' is a mystery, unless you're engaging in some attempt at a humorous irony. My interpretation is based on your keyboard persona. You may be sound as a pound in person, so why be different on here if that's the case?


I don't believe I said Wigan weren't playing within the rules of the game. Indeed what I believe has happened is a number of fans have become aggreived with what's perceived to be a dangerous tackling technique, the interpretation of which is unclear on the part of the governing body.


As I said I have no figures on this, it's purely a perception - I don't recall a time when there has seemed to be quite so many injuries. Do you have any figures to share on this?

all tainted by the fact you have just lost against us, and couldnt break us down that well

Do you have any awareness of what this debate is about because it really doesn't seem that way. Try having a re-read before making another pathetic trolling attempt.

yeah course i do, but it seems to be after any team loses against us this debate happens, therefore making it sound like sour grapes,
rugby league has never been safe, infact there are less serious injuries now than ever before, we are doing nothing wrong in the tackle, your teams just cant cope and if we carry on wrapping our players up in cotton wool we might as well just go play tick and pass, and fall even more behind the aussies,

Sour grapes? I have absolutely no sour grapes towards last night's defeat what so ever. I actually expected us to get quite a severe beating and I felt our performance suggested that we have some excellent young talent in the ranks at Cas who are hungry for the game and to do well for their town. They gave Wigan a real tough game with the odds stacked against them and the players and fans can be proud of that fact.

I wouldn't say we couldn't cope either - both teams had a good go at smashing eachother about although a fair number of those in the East stand didn't seem to happy about that judging by the moans.

What's keeping us a long way behind the Aussies in my opinion is the fact that teams that employ slowing tactics (i.e. Wakefield, Crusaders, Bradford, Harlequins, Salford) are allowed to get away with it. They should be being penalised and forced to accommodate those teams that want to play an expansive game. Last night was a good example of two teams that like to give the ball some air, doing just that. But unfortunatley, even the fastest teams here aren't at the pace of the NRL, nor will they be if the play-the-ball isn't speeded up and controlled across the board.

Its not their tackling technique that gets to me its when other deploy similar tactics against them....slowing the play the ball down & then pie eaters are up in arms about it all complaining like there's no tomorrow!

Tomkin brothers are ones for their snide grabbing hold of the tackler technique to win a penalty which really gets up my a*$e.......I have full respect for the both of them regarding rugby skills but these snide actions are just plain cheating IMO and should be cut out by the officials.

i just dont think you would be complaining and moaning if you had won.

I certainly would. Wigan are NOT breaking the rules. Lets get that straight. But they have developed a style that needs a rule change. Fairly groundbreaking to be fair. They often hold up players and the third man dives at the lower limb, below the knee - Cannonballing. This is dangerous.

They also employ numerous twisting techniques once the pace of the collision has gone. This isnt grappling, but has the same dangerous effect. They of course arent the only onces who do this, but they do do it the most.

If this becomes a trend then serious joint injuries will increase.

I couldnt give a monkey what team it is, but its something the RFL needs to take a very serious view of. I do not for one minute think Wigan do it to injure players. They do it to dominate the PTB, and it does work - but it doesnt make it right.

You dont need statistical evidence, although Im sure it would be easy to compile. You just need eyes and a brain!