The trip should have been a instant yellow.

The second one is harder to prove but in my view is Tompkins trying to hurt someone but subtle in doing it.

The smiling assassin . The only positive is that his goal kicking is so poor it has handed wire a chance.

Unfortunately they seem so clueless in attack I doubt they will score enough to break Wigan down to get enough points.

aye, where as saints fans punch players in the back of the head.

Only one side was sloppy with the ball last year and that was the team that bottled it.

We were too as well just not to the same extent.

You gonna comment on the game or just troll?

Who is this Tompkins guy some of you are talking about?



As for Sam Tomkins..... the trip was a definite yellow but Hicks bottled it, the knees was accidental IMO and penalty sufficient. His conversion attempts have been pretty laughable as well.

Plenty of manbags on show and couple of bits of quality from Wigan the difference between the teams ATM. If they go 2 scores up I think Wire will struggle to get back into the game.

No he’s not, big games do tend to show more leniency from refs and rightly so otherwise fans would complain about showpiece occasions being ruined by cards (unless they’re supporting a certain team). Maybe only supporters of big teams who regularly compete in big games understand this though

Its TOMKINS for gods sake not thompkins or tompkins.
Christ its not really that hard is it?

I'll blame my poor spelling on auto-correct.

Pretty much summed it up. Trip was a trip, definite yellow. The knees were accidental.

Trip should have been a yellow but honestly regardless of the player, or team, or ref, that was never gonna be a yellow card in a grand final. As daft as that is, as a yellow offence SHOULD be given a yellow, but no ref would have given it in my opinion.
Incident with the knees for my money was purely an unfortunate accident. Anybody claiming otherwise is doing so based on their dislike of either Tomkins himself or Wigan.

Anybody got any suggestions for man of the match yet based on that first half? Nobody stood out at all to me. Somebody needs to take hold of this game.