When you watch Lima run the ball back from restarts, then you watch him, I was delighted that they'd made the interchange. Then you throw in his indiscipline, he was a joy to watch.

The poor, poor lad.

If that means that he'll play him again then I'm more than happy!

I thought Silverwood's reasoning for not sin binning him for the spear tackle was an absolute joke too, and Wane trying to take him off before Silverwood could speak to him shows that even Wane thought he was off for me.

Haven't read the previous pages...But has Rogues been on to say how Lauaki has been a revelation for Wigan this year and how last night was just a blip...

You can't knock Luauki's consistency.

Consistently poop

I haven't seen Rogues (or TrentBarrett for that matter) surface yet.

be waiting a while for trent

I wonder what his team mates must think, all that effort and his "mistakes" essentially cost them the game. If he gets bans for both the incidents would they be consecutive and concurrent?

This may be OTT but given he may have cost his team 2 points tonight, the Wigan fans might be hoping for the former...

Lauaki was stupid last night (in his second spell) but to be fair to him he had only conceded two penalties all season prior to the game, and one of them was thumping Ryan Bailey (so that shouldn't really count

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I enjoyed the game last night it was full on battle. The better team lost but that's the way it goes sometimes. Our discipline was poor in that last 20 minutes.
There's a lot of discussion about taking the two from penalties. Correct decision IMO. Just look at when we didn't take them and Tommy L dropped the ball about 10 metres out, that for me was the turning point of the game.

Oh and Briers was offside, the players have to be behind the referee.

Have fun.

Not content to have been shown his backside on the Wigan forum for this, apparently Rogue's wants to be shown up on the Wire board too.

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Not at any point does it say that the defenders must be behind the referee.

It does say this though:



Basically, and for those of the hard of hearing, the referee is the arbiter of the 10m and while he may usually stand 10m back, he's the man to decide and his position shouldn't be taken as the definitive indicator of the 10m.

It doesn't seem to say what you think it does. The ref can either stand 10 metres back where the defensive line should be or stand closer to the ruck. He can't stand behind the defensive line. Although going off what Silverwood has been like this year, he was probably just out of position.

Can you point out to me where it says the players have to behind the referee? Cheers.

The ref should stand back 10m, it does indeed say that. Does it say that his standing position marks the 10m? No, it does not.