What puzzles me about that incident is how Leeds got a scrum out of it...the ref was clearly heard talking to the VR about a mistake being made as to whose scrum it was when in the first instance the scrum was given to Warrington then given to Leeds. As we know the tackle was deemed to be fair by the VR, so if there was no offside, according to the VR, & no Leeds knock on it was a perfectly good try.

from a wigan fan

congratulations best team won on the day ,had a great weekend well done

Why are folk still debating the Delaney No-Try? The rules are really quite straightforward, and its easy to surmise the ref's call:

Fair tackle --> Hodgson spills ball (1st knock on) --> Leuluai fumbles ball (2nd knock on) --> Scrum Attack (Leeds ball)

Delaney's offside doesn't even enter into it. The only confusion I see is the screen saying Scrum Defence and Silverpud awarding Scrum Attack, thus changing the judging (quite correctly). Here endeth the lesson.

We had the ball so Leeds were defending, Scrum Defence was the correct decision on the screen. All pretty clear cut and a little irritating that much of the media is reporting the incident as if Leeds were denied a legitimate try.

Yep. Language be a funny bugger - spot on.

I agree with both the above, it seems uninformed comment plus people that have not seen the replay of the incident.

And in any case, it would have made no difference to the result if a try had been allowed. Leeds simply didn't have the belief, the game plan or the personnel out there to win.

The Ratchford effort should have been a try.

Hodgson knocks on 1st

Finally someone picked up on that, yes it should of been there was no knock on anywhere in the build..

How can Hodgeson losing the ball backwards be a knock on and TBF Leuluai knocked it out and it went forwards off him Delaney was offside so it's a no brainer penalty for offside or reaping the ball in a two man tackle ! Which ever way u look at it , it wasn't a Leeds scrum !

Hahaha after watching it again I was thinking Why on earth has that not been mentioned on here, there was absolutely nothing wrong with it and had we gone 12 - 0 up that early it could have become a blowout scoreline.

100% correct

It was the correct decision....Hodgson lost the ball during the impact of the challenge, it was not a steal. The laws of the game state it is upto the ball carrier to carry the ball securely into the tackle, Hodgson didn't....Leuluai did knock on once the ball was loose, so the offside didn't even come into it.

I suppose you could be ultra-picky and say Hodgson lost it backwards, meaning it should have been a Wire scrum, but to be fair, in a situation like that, a ball carrier losing the ball will more often than not be judged to have knocked on....Hodgson had his lights knocked out, so it wasn't really a knock on, more his unconscious body releasing the ball involuntarily.

Watching it again this morning the ball goes back first and then bounces forward, so I think it should have been given. It should have been sent to the video ref for a check anyway.

We should have received a not square penalty a few minutes from half time, so a penalty goal there at least. As it was Leeds went down field and then got a 2 pointer.

We'll just let Mr Grumpy be bitter about that 1 definite no try.