The three or four Wakefield players (if not more) that were stood offside at that play the ball.

maybe its just the fact that Ganson is not afraid to penalise and doesn't let your team off with the many forward passes or put up with the players constantly moaning and mouthing, personally i think ganson is one of the best and fairest refs in the game.

There was one player (I couldn't see the number) stood a metre or two infront of Ganson. If he's been anywhere other than right infront of him I think you are right, but it was the correct decision. The fact he didn't give others is purely down to Mr G.

And no, I don't think he would have given a penalty if Diskin hadn't knocked on.

What this says to me is that Ganson is a ref who doesn't give what he sees, I have the suspician that he tries to set his own narrative to the game (which is why I prefer the likes of Smith - even though he makes errors there is no real plan to it). IMO Ganson sees himself as the conductor of the game rather than the arbiter of the rulebook - his aggressive attitude when awarding penalties doesn't transmit calm to players (Klein got a lot of stick, but he never lost his cool and kept players cool generally because of this). Ganson's face when Donald scored said volumes, I've never seen anyone look as gutted (he looked more p!$$ed off than Kear).

We didn't concede a single penalty for dissent. Please stop listening to that idiot Stevo.

It was Brad Drew.



So what were the penalties awarded against Ablett in the 23rd and 46th minutes for?

Not talking. He conceded an extra 10 metres twice if that's what you mean, once for talking and the second time for laughing apparantly.

He's got yer there tvoc!!
I never thought it'd be you that questioned his post!!

For being a cocky gobe.

Totally agree with all your comments. I believe that Ganson thinks that the crowd come to see him and not the players. His ego is twice as big as the players he is refereeing. I know from personal experience that it is difficult to concentrate on the game when you believe that the official is not seeing the same offences for both teams and comments are often made. Sinfield elluded to this in his after match comments.

Damn I wanted to write that...

There's the rub, all we ask is that both sides are refereed the same.
Can anyone seriously suggest that at no time in the game did wakefield put in a high tackle or commit any other offence until we'd been pinged 10 times?
Similarly in tonights's game when Grix had to go off to play no further part in the game after an attack to the head missed by all the officials, yet the Wolves got penalised for a much less serious high tackle by Vinnie Anderson I think a few moments later.
That's what irritates fans of all teams. The lack of consistency.

It can't be a coincidence that we get penalised like mad in every game and we have given away more penalties than any other team in SL (bar 1).

Something needs to be done, our discipline is terrible!

There is no excuse for Ablett chatting back to the ref twice! If this didnt happen we wouldnt have to wait until the last play of the game to win it!