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 )

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.

rlhttps://therfl.co.uk/a_guide_to_the_game/official_laws/11_tackle_and_playtheballrl

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

It does say this thoughIndicating ten metres The Referee should usually position himself ten metres behind and to one side of the point at which the ball is played as a guide to the team not in possession. If tackling is excessively keen or play is unnecessarily rough, the referee may forsake the ten metres position in order to be nearer the players involved in the tackle.'"

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.

It doesn't, but in this case Silverwood was marking the 10 metres so that's irrelevant. Briers was offside.

oh, and chris hill literally throws the ball backwards after a fumble and it's a knock on.

Sam tompkins knocks it forward from a bomb under his sticks and it's play on?

Exactly.
If he gave the mark why was only Briers apart from the markers in front of him? We hear it all the time in commentary, both here and in Aus "The refs keeping a skinny / big 10"

carmont voluntary tackle on his own line with ten to go,

yes i am watching as i type

let's face facts here. Briers was offside. he got away with it. we won.

Please let a wigan fan explain how lauaki was not yellow carded for his second on report offence whee he dumped blythe.

the only reason he didn't dump him on his head is because blythe tucked in to protect himself

He should have been sin binned for leading with the forearm before that (unless it was a bad one, in which case he should have been sent off). The second on report offence should have given Silverwood a good idea that he should have taken the cards out of his pockets.

Of course Westwood should have seen red for running in and throwing a punch into the tackle. It was slightly amusing that he hit his own man, but it is still an offence to punch your own player.

Silverwood was just plain awful. Both sides benefited and suffered at the hands of his poor officiating. I thought he was genuinely the best ref in the competition last year but this season he's been dreadful, making poor decisions, inconsistent and also out of position quite often.

I think Wigan scored after Hock took out a defender, allowing Tomkins to shoot the gap.

Briers being 1 m off side and scoring an interception from it then the ref not going to the screen isw all about luck. Had the ref gone to the screen, no try, he didnt, that is good luck.

Well done on the win, nothing in the two teams, you won one stat and that was the score board, but unfortunately its the one that mattered.