It's not good hard defence. It's not good old-style biff, nowhere near it. Charging in 3rd man on a held man is a sh|thouse, cowardly act.

Anyone who thinks that's good, hard defence needs their head examining.

You want to put a big shot in, then front up and do it when the player is running at you. That's good, hard defence.

Don't think there was anything wrong with it, though i don't think he needed to steam in like he did it just made it look worse.

The game has changed over the years and not always for the better.

Any other player and nobody would bat an eyelid.

There's nothing in the rules against it currently AFAIK. It's a cowardly act though that should be discouraged across the sport, otherwise we're going to run out of halfbacks very quickly.

Than sarginson? Or is this the "poor wigan everyone picks on us because we're the best" mentality?

Wilkin picks up a head injury, game should stop, MM knees him in the head and Wilkin gets penalised. What?

Surely it's because we all hate or are jealous of <insert club here>. That's the standard response to any criticism on here isn't it?

I'm saying that because Wigan have a reputation for it people are hyper-sensitive, dissecting every play to check wether it was dirty. Other teams you let it go. Let's face it, there's no jealousy where Wigan is concerned for other people.



Again, happens frequently, but it's MM so it's dirty. Play should have stopped but the knee was quite clearly accidental. Ref got it wrong saying Wilkin was in the way.

nothing illegal about the challenge by sarginson, although i don't agree that a 3rd, or 4th man coming in on a defenceless attacker who is already being held up is good,could lead to a nasty injury and one that could be avoided.

i'm all for a bit of rough, hard stuff, but not when it has potential to cause an injury.

There was nothing accidental about what that little scumbag did.

Why wasn't oloughlin sent off, thought head highs got sent off this seaon

Watch it in real time. There isn't a great deal of contact (and with the shin, not the knee). Wilkin is certainly more concerned with the penalty than the contact from Mac. I'd say MM was trying to milk a penalty rather than going in to hurt him. MM isn't exactly subtle is he?

McIlorum has form for that, did it to Wellens a couple of years back. Also accidental I'm sure.

The off the ball, lifting above the horizontal tackle on Burns in the build up was worse imo ...