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.

Bit like the clear obstruction in the build to Richard's try or Farrel voluntary tackle, swings and roundabouts

Sky have the technology to overlay a clear indication line between the touch lines to show whether a player is offside in football - why don't they do this for the RL coverage? Especially when juding onside/offisde for kicks. Also, the rule book says the referee should indicate the 10 metres, Silverwood had the players back on to the half way line, and yet the PTB clearly is at least 1 metre past the 40m line. The question is, does the JJB have a 'short' gap between 40m and halfway lines like Wilderspool did/does? If it doesn't, then Silverwood got the mark for 10m wrong. If it does, then yes, Briers was offside.

So why did EVERY Wire player barring Briers and the markers stay behind the ref?
The ref makes the mark. I've shown you the rules.

You win some, you lose some. It just happens that Wire have had two big calls in their favour in the last two weeks. Hopefully it'll even out.

Ok say he was offside fair enough, it even itself out because in the lead up to Richard's try there was a clear obstruction when Hock? cleaned Blythe out and Tomkins went through the gap where Blythe had been.

Then you also have the voluntary tackle by Farrell, 2 big calls go Wigan way and you still couldn't win

Referee decisions do even themselves out over the season.
In our last game of the season against Leeds we got a Pen against us that was offside [sizeNo I can't let it go[/size but could have easily been let go. It cost us our rightful place at Old Trafford.

The worst thing about that was minutes before when Briers was going for a drop goal the Leeds players we're on him before he even had the ball, no way they could of been onside.

But I also don't think I will ever let that go

Yeah thanks it took me months to forget about that night, and you have all dragged it back up!!

Back to therapy for me!

that was a right old painfull night for me, when that penalty was awarded in the last minutes of the game i stood up and booted the advertising hoardings and broke me foot in 5 places OUCH