Yes, yes, yes we know what you mean. Every single win we've ever had has been crooked. We haven't deserved any of our numerous trophies over the past fifteen years and have only won because of refs and us breaking the rules. How we ever live with ourselves knowing that I don't know but we do. It's the kind of thing we just have to do to win a match. Without favourable breaks or biased refereeing we'd be sitting at the bottom of the Cooperative Championship, if we were lucky.

I admire honesty in a person. Thanks for your admission and confession. For your penance you will now have to admit your great love of Shaun Edwards.

Hopefully I'll get the answer on the Whiting issue tonight.

No, I've just had it confirmed by a professional referee. It should have been head and feed to Hull. The straddle rule only applies to to a rolling/bouncing ball when the player straddles the dead ball line. It does not apply to the touchline.

Therefore it was a wrong decision, and one that "probably" cost Hull the game as Roby scored direct from the scrum and got Saints back into the game.

Swings and roundabouts eh? Wigan's american football impressions on Good Friday "probably" cost us the game as well.

What sport is the ref professional in? There are only half a dozen or so pro rl refs and I am not sure they know this rule (especially given not one but two of them were involved in the decision, and it was the one running the line gave head to Saints)

Imagine a scenario where a player deliberately leaves the field by standing on the line and touches a kicked ball staying infield (as Whiting did, not deliberately) and by this "rule" winning a scrum and stopping a potential trophy winning try by doing so... I am sure the rule would not last very long if that started, just like the straddling the dead ball line didn't.

yep, that would be asking for trouble

Clearly he forgot about the terrible forward passes for 2 of Hull's try's which 'probably' cost us the win too. Forward passes dont count because Wigan do them all the time, so it's just obscure rules random ones that make the difference in games. (unless they go against Saints then they wouldnt have had any effect)

Rogues in "I have a source shocker" lulz.

He likes to think he is in the know, when the reality is, he makes things up and claims hes in the know.

I'd like to know who this professional referee is and why he thinks Ganson got the decision wrong when the rules support his call.

Its all a figment of his imagination. Do not rise to him.

Are you calling me a liar?

Anyway here's the rule as posted on page 5.
"The ball is in touch when it or a player in contact with it touches the touch line or the ground beyond the touch line or any object on or outside the touch line except when a player, tackled in the field of play, steps into touch as he regains his feet in which case he shall play the ball in the field of play."

Whiting was on the line (despite what SaintsFan says) when he caught the ball. Therefore the ball was in touch. It wasn't a 40:20 so it should have been Hulls head and feed.

We're all bored by it. Move on.

You mean you were wrong but as usual won't admit it.