If anything, tonight could serve as an important mental boost, a huge weight off our shoulders. Going into the play-offs on the back of 4 defeats in a row to you would have been horrible.

Disgusting tackle from a cheap shot merchant. Similar to when Newton nailed Long all them years ago. Luckily James Child grabbed hold of his nuts and set him off - not sure many other refs would have done so.

The most amusing thing about this is Wane's reaction: ridiculously biased.

Pure thuggery plain and simple. We need a return to the days of 8 game bans for that kind of cheapshot, but no doubt he will return in plenty of time for the final regardless.

To me the win was fairly pyrrhic to be honest. We were still pretty 1-dimensional throughout and laboured to beat them even down to 12 men for most of the match. I think there's little doubt they'd have churned us up and won by 8-10 points on the night if the greatest #9 in the world wasn't a weasly cheapshot scumbag. The win won't hurt confidence but ultimately we'll need to up it another few levels from that showing to have a chance at getting mulllered at O/T again.

McIlorum's indiscipline has been creeping into his game for a while now and he has totally gone off the boil now. He has only got himself to blame if he gets a 3 match ban and misses a potential grand final. I am not too concerned really, Matty Smith/ Tommy Leuluai can share the hooking duties over the next couple of weeks, in fact I was quite disappointed Matty wasn't on the bench last night.

Can you provide any examples?

As for it being good refereeing, I'm not too sure whether Child would have sent him off with Ganson's help following a look at the replay.
IIRC Childs started talking to McIlorum (sp) and then stopped when the replay was viewed and only then got out the red card.

It's my belief that had the match not been on Sky he wouldn't have been sent off.

He was committed to the tackle, apparently.

[iWigan coach Shaun Wane


I hope they put another match onto his ban just for the idiocy of the above comment!

Dirty Queens b-stard, simple!

To be honest I didn't think it was really a thuggish act. Yes it was wrong and deserved a red and probably two or three games but, but certainly not on a par with newton or hocks best efforts. Talking of hock, what has happened to him? He almost single handedly destroyed saints earlier in the season, last night it took till the 76th minute for him to do anything. Maybe the quality of his coke has gone down. And thank god we didn't sign finch, he has drifted back to anonymity.

Wane is in cloud cuckoo land. It was a house trick. Not only very late but clobbered a bloke with his back turned. Anything less than 2 games with his previous is a farce.

Olde fashioned stiff arm...

2 match ban but as its wigan, a ticking off and £1000 fine prolly.

Did anyone else see the missed uppercut from Hock [size(said in a clearing the throat manner)[/size in the next set of 6.