It's almost as if Paul Wood hadn't assaulted a Wigan player unprovoked.

Was that the one where three Warrington players held the Wigan player and Wood beat him with a crow bar from behind

I have to say the Wood v Pettybourne "biff" was rather lame; I think they both got sin-binned so they could go and find a mirror to practice their timing against. My mother shows more raw aggression every Sunday finding her favourite pew at church.

Walmsley sent off for Saints v Hudds for the kind of tackle McCollorum would blush about. RL disciiplinary panel really need to get a grip because we now have another player (Luke Robinson) being helped off the field, and yesterday of course Laithwaite exiting on a stretcher.

RL has always been the toughest sport on the planet, but also the most honest, and that needs to be preserved.

I don't think so Suzy woozy... it was two blokes looking each other in the eye, one giving the other verbals and coping one on the chin for it......... that is not assault on a rugby league pitch, you should know that having played the game yourself.

I know all the lads I played with would have no problem someone looking you in the eye and letting you have a taste...its honest..harsh and brutal........ but honest.

getting one late high and while your back is turned, or 3rd man in and low at the knee joint is not honest its a cheap house tactic and its a well known Wigan Tactic....

Wigan Used to be famous for playing the best brand of Rugby League in this country now they aren't.

These are the worse set of officials I've ever seen.

We have video technology, and they still fluff it up
They're "looked after" better than they've ever been (in terms of meetings/training/pay), and they still fluff it up
They have an extra 2 officials, when TV cameras aren't there, and they still fluff it up.

At times, I pine for the days of
Thompson
Lindop
Whitfield
Campbell
(I hate myself for typing that).
I HATED these b@st@rds with a passion, who were some of the most corrupt onanists you'll ever see, but, when bungs weren't given, they refereed well.

Today's lot are just plain incompetant

Thing is, coaches and players have clearly cottoned onto the fact that the officials seem prepared to let almost anything go in the name of speed of the game and are, frankly, criminally abusing it to the detriment of the product. Watching some teams it's hard not to think they spend all their training time working out how to milk penalties, steal an advantage, push their luck and basically, cheat as opposed to actually honing skills.

T'wasn't always thus.

....another huge fluff up in the last minute

Stains player goes for a dg, get's charged down (which nullifies offside) and Silverwood....well, you can guess the rest.

FFS, Why are these twunts employed

Nope players in front of the kicker when kick made remain offside regardless surely?

No, if it's deliberately played at, which charging down a kick is, it's play on. It happened in your game yesterday before Wigan's 1st try when Sarginson ran 40 metres after being played onside by you charging the kick down.