Quote Backwoodsman="Backwoodsman"I have just watched my recording of last nights widnes Wigan game, one of wigans try's was referred to the video official . The try was more or less identical to Danny Mc Guires disallowed try against Wigan , to my surprise Stevos said absolutely no try as its the same as Mc Guires in the magic weekend game.
Full credit to him, the try was awarded, as they say go figure.'"
The "try" in question was the game changer for Wigan coming just after Widnes had a try ruled out that would have finished the game.
The Wigan dummy runner ran straight at the defender and collided with him. I guess what had to be decided was did the defender take the wrong runner or did the runner target the defender and take him out?
The dummy runner was so far in front of the ball it was inconceivable that the defender would consider him a possible ball carrier and you could see the Widnes defender didn't move towards him. In this case the Wigan runner targeted the defender and ran into him knocking him off balance. In a drift defence the Widnes player would have had plenty of time to shuffle sideways to take the ball carrier but he couldn't. That left the big hole for the Wigan player to run through.
The video ref looked at it several times and IMO made completely the wrong decision.
Wigan pass the ball behind dummy screening runners all the time and mostly they do not make contact with defenders, it's just good attacking play. The difference is obvious between a dummy runner confusing the defence and a dummy runner targetting and colliding with a defender.
The quality and consistency bing offered up by our officials sat in a box with all the time in the world to make a decision is frankly appalling.