Quote: steadygetyerboots-on "I think too many people are missing the main point of Cas fans frustrations here. It's not in dispute that Cas' discipline was poor, it's the feeling that Thaler policed the two defences differently. Add to this his arrogance and belief that everyone has come to see him rather than the game that gets under everyone's, including the players, skin. Cas fans dislike him because we know the script when he referee's us.'"
The defences were treated the same. You need to look at the penalties given around the play the ball. Generally teams can get away with slowing down, Wigan, most of the time are quite good at it. What Cas got pinged for is the second effort, as soon as the attacker starts to get up then is prevented from doing so it will always be penalised.
As for the rest of the game, there wasn't a lot the ref got wrong. Like everyone else I thought it was off side on the stroke of half time, after Cummins' explaination it appears Thaler got it right though I struggle to believe he was so aware he took that technicality into account. I think he made a mistake which turned out to be the right decision if that makes sense. For those Cas fans complaining about Wigan niggling look at your own team, Solomona was terrible and far from the only one. I've read people whinging that Wigan milked a few penalties, again look a your own team as no one did a better job of that than Dorn.
Sometimes you get them, sometimes you don't, sometimes it's the right decsion but you are so convinced it's not it gets to you. On those occasions you have to keep your cool, concentrate on the game and playing rugby, Wigan in the past have not been very good at that, Cas on Thursday didn't do it and turned to niggle and bitching at the ref. I wonder if Gale (who was by far the worst a contesting virtually everything) will be visiting red hall for laying hands on the ref.
The one place Cas can have a legitimate argument is with the video ref. I thought the Solomona one was probably a try however that's the issue with the ref sending it up with a decision so I can understand why it was rejected, conversely I thought Dorn dropped the ball but couldn't see 'conclusive proof' to overturn the decision so I thought he got that wrong. I thought the Sutton one should have been given too.
