I've not seen it on the screen and I'm not going near the replay of the game later, but it affected Jammer today that. It just smacked of them thinking we'll give him a crack early on and see if it can knock him off his game. I thought he still worked hard and played well but it took a lot out of him.

Was it a bad one or just your average O'Loughlin tackle that starts borderline and creeps up?

My feeling that while Lockys hit was high it was not that bad a one the brunt on the initial contact was on the shoulder but it did slide up and was a definite penalty, but no more.

For me on my first and only look I think Fielden's challenge joining as second man coming over the top caused the damage to Graham not the Locky challenge.

Good hard tackle that you see week in week out. Caught him on the shoulder and then went up, nowhere near as bad as the two Wilkin tackles.

No, of course not.

Wasn't Wilkin supposed to be playing Stand-Off?

One of Wilkins was on the forehead of the Wigan player, any higher and he'd have missed completely.

Graham is too good of a player to be put off by one high shot,

He wasn't put off. He was wobbling around like a drunk person. He then got another high shot later. Yet he played on. Not put off, just physically damaged.

Graham`s just a softcock prop

If those shots put him off its hard to argue against that though.

Fact is though he has taken those and worse in his time, it simply was not his day today.

Mossop was pretty much knocked out after a clash of heads with Gardner and he still put in a fantastic performance.

Nothing wrong with O Loughlins tackle at all. Its just one of those unfortunate ones where the momentum carried on above the shoulder. No malice at all.

In terms of the outcome you mean? Surely you are not suggesting Graham didn't play well? I'll put a million pounds on him being the prop that made the most metres in the game and his balls put a couple of players through for near misses.