meh, i get 4 off after this so dont feel too bad

I thought it was hilarious. Deserved after 2 of the softest penalties kept Brisbane in the game.

That was a terrible game compared to last nights effort.

Brisbane were poor, wigan were worse. Hardly any good rugby played and a pitiful end.

Extra time should have been tense and exciting but it just felt flat. Meant nothing really.

Hopefully Saints will do better in the one that matters.

Utter rubbish. Biased reffing v the Aussies. Well I never.

There were at least 20 tackles like that in the game not penalised.
Complete bull.

No need to watch tomorrow. It'll be 3-0 to the Aussies. The reffing will make sure of it.

Funny as owt shows the Wigan mentality at the end bet wane told em to take the ball home coz they were going to get beat haha

That's about as poor as I've seen Wigan play in a fair bit, no doubt there fans will remember worse but the amount of unreal silly errors, poor passing, kicking and general decision making was awful. Brisbane weren't much better. Pitch was crap but still.

Also agree, if they are going to call that last tackled high, the penalty count should have been off the board, if they were consistant.

i don't have a problem with what gelling did. the game was more or less up anyway and it might have just unsettled the kicker (bit like when a pen is retaken in football). it was such a simple kick, someone had to try something however daft it seemed

Wigan have a lot of work to do if they are to be in the running for trophies this season. The pack looks non existent, they've still got that donkey playing at fullback despite supposedly have the best player since Jesus in the squad (Hampshire) and the halves look out of their depth.

I'd still put the blame for their performance on Wane and Flower. Their thug mentality was their soul, it has been Wigan's trademark since the dark day Michael Maguire set foot in the country. But once the spotlight was finally put on them by an overly wound up Ben Flower in the GF, they are struggling to find a gameplan. They know they can't go all out thug and don't really have any quality in the side. Can a Wigan fan answer the question about why they haven't replaced their outgoing players, particularly Green?

Yea it was bad. That's how we play every time we're without Lockers though.

I don't think we actually bother practising last tackle plays or any sort of set-plays in training other than the classic swing-it-wide-and-hope-for-an-overlap.

2 games down. 2 reffing performances that favoured the Aussies. I wonder, will it be 3? Oh yeah, course it will.

Everyone on here saying both teams were poor, Wigan awful at times, and the game not up to standard of last night which is true imo but yet then we have Eddie and Phil Clarke bigging it up as an epic, heroic war which proves we can stand toe to toe with them.

I find that quite embarrassing

I have to say I am frustrated by the refereeing of this game in particular.

If Bentham is going to use such fine margins to adjudicate on Batemans (non) obstruction then he surely has to be equally pedantic about other aspects of play.

Brisbane, like St George last night, constantly put a 3rd man into the tackle so late that it was a flop, had that been a regular SL game a penalty would be given.

There were also a number of times that Brisbane players crossed behind one of their team mates yet no penalty.

There was also a number of occasions when with more than one defender involved Brisbane were 'dragging' a Wigan pkayer towards and into touch, but no penalty.

These are just 3 examples of Benthams leniency toward Brisbane and also instances of inconsistancy with the rules.

As I said earlier, if you're going to be so pedantic as to penalise Bateman for obstructing then you can't then show unacceptable leniency in other areas, it's why players get frustrated!

Spot on

Yeah not since 2006 when a Fielden inspired Bradford beat not exaclty the greatest team to come over West Tigers, has an English team won when an English Ref (French one year with Terry Albert) won in one of the WCC games.