Chargedowns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! stop doing them!!!!!! Let's make the almost guaranteed turn over of possession a 50-50 lottery.

Right ,so that's what happened, I only saw the incident at the match & as i haven't got sky sports i couldn't watch it again. Thanks.

Very highly debatable that it hit his hand. Then again numerous knock-ons given when the players hand hadn't touched the ball last night.

Personally I think there are vast improvements to come from our team and we managed a draw without much possession, field position or adequate set completion.

Great for an early season game, I think Wigan are set up well for the future with their talented crop of youngsters. They won't win a trophy with matty smith at halfback though.

Also, why do people think we're so good at shutting down Sam Tomkins? Totally anonymous again last night.

Have you seen the stats for the second half?

Not yet but I assume the figures are skewed by those three sets after penalty awards.

The first half we had less than 40% possession. The errors we made were also in key areas of our own half.

As a neutral observer I thoroughly enjoyed the game, obviously you and Wigan will be at the top end of the table come the seasons end. The one sour note from last nights match was wigans repeated infringing at the play the ball,by and large they got away with most of it. Also after several repeated penalties nobody from the Wigan side was sin binned . Pehraps I am being pedantic but slowing the play the ball down enables an inferior team to drag the opposition down to their level.

With all the talk about the only games that matter being in the play-offs I think last night's game dispelled that myth. That game had all the intensity of a play-off game with both teams and fans wanting the win. Well done both teams. After watching kick and clap over the winter that game was an excellent reminder about how good thr RL product is. Both teams have room for improvement for sure but I don't think anyone can fault their commitment.

Great game and all and all probably a fare result. I agree with Backwoodsman, Wigan got away with murder at the PTB and exactly how many warnings does a team get before action is taken?

Much more to come form us I feel and another tough encounter this friday against the Catalans to look forward to.

exactly how I saw the game but couldnt be a$ed posting similar comments and getting flak off the pies or anyone that wanted to think it was the best game of rugby they have ever seen.........Is Brian Carney slowly morphing into Eddie Hemmings....????

the two refereeing performances we have had already were polar opposites last weeks ref blowing up for anything and Bentham letting all and sundry go......

my particular gripe was the identical leg lift and drop on the back that was done on tomkins (I think)Where Monas laughed at bentham and Said Quizically"Droped in his head...??" and the identical one on Hodgson that was let go. It would have given us great field position to try a winning drop goal.

now the amount of Times wigan did this leg lift (which was effectively nearly splitting ones kipper and will lead to serious groin injuries) was outrageous we did it once and were penalised......... yes i know we were lucky with the charnley call but then goulding wasnt dragged into touch he put his own foot in. there were so many bad calls that have been completely forgotten about because it was a great specatacle.

So whilst not ruining the game I though Bentham stunk like an unflushed New Deli toilet

I couldn't help but be a bit gutted that we didn't win, maybe it's the recent success that's done that to me!

Anyone know why we were penalised when Goulding went into touch? I haven't watched it again but I thought he but his own foot into touch trying to stand up.

Are the continuing attempts to speed the game up by changing rules in danger of making the game difficult to referee for one man & do we need to try 2 refs or should the touch judges be given more power (sounds familiar ?) or would we then finish up with officials not always agreeing on decisions ? A classic was the dragging into touch (?), how long was that tackle allowed to go on ,if they want to speed the game up the whistle should have been blown sooner because the player was immobilised on the ground. There would then have been no dragging into touch issue.