I thought that it seemed to be a very quick team warning.

A little bitter are we?

I can't for the life of me understand why so much is being made of this. The captain is allowed to talk to the referee and this was done completely by the book. Would you rather have it like is usually is with players such as Brough, Wilkin, McGuire or Sam Tomkins shouting at the referee when things aren't going their way like football players, or do things the proper way whereby the captain calmly goes and asks the referee a question which he is entitled to do so as captain (one of the points/perks of being a captain is the link between the referee and the teams players).

There is nothing sly, nothing "cheating" about what went on tonight, I am absolutely certain that captains ask questions of the referee each and every week, and rightly so. There was nothing said according to Sky about Wigan asking to be awarded more penalties, the question was of ruck speed. One of the sin bins was for a professional foul, and a few of the penalties were for high tackles/ball steals, so the ref was influenced so much as to give a couple of pens for lying on?



I do agree it was incorrect call about the charge down and Wigan scrum, but let's not forget, Hudds nearly scored the winning try from a set where Gelling CLEARLY took the Huddersfield man into touch which wasn't spotted.

Look I'm not saying the penalties weren't right but Wigan were scragging and holding down too. Crikey one Wigan player walked three yards off the mark that should be a penalty but Cobb took the easy don't infuriate the Wigan fans route by sending him back to play it in a half of 9 penalties and two sin binings that's not consistent.

Had Cobb refereed the game in the same manner as the first half there would be no sour grapes he clearly had it in his head that one side was slowing it down when both sides were. I wonder why ??

If you re watch the game on Sky the ruck speed was very similar in the first half but Wigan were clearly allowed to play the ball quicker in the 2nd due to the fact that Cobb was going to penalise Huddersfield if they didn't.

I have no problem with Wigan/Wain for trying it on but the referee shot himself in the foot because rightly or wrongly he appeared to start pulling Huddersfield from the start of the second half for what he didn't in the first and Wigan were as culpable as us for slowing the ruck area down and guess what not one penalty !!

It was six penalties in about fifteen minutes.


How do you know.
The majority of penalties conceded by Huddersfield in the second half were NOT for slowing the play the ball down, but for stupid high tackles. As for the charge down, by the rules it was the correct decision as the Huddersfield player advanced towards the ball,as explained by Terry O'Connor. Personally I think it's a stupid rule that needs changing.

blatant high tackle on murphy in the first half, just a penalty for us

wardle got a red card against catalans...

whats the difference? murphy too honest and got back up?

Not really as I don't support hudds but as an impartial observer I can give an unbiased opinion and that wigan were far worse than hudds at slowing down the PTB but you got away with it and they didn;t in that 2nd half. No way did wigan not infringe the rules for over half an hour but they got away with it and the ref gifted you the 2 points. You are absolutely awful to watch

I see mar has opened his big gob again and said PA should be fined for speaking out!! The sooner this buffoon leaves our game the better, I for one will throw a party when this gob disappears back down the hole he appeared from.

Unfortunately,I think a lot of the things we complain about are now part of the game,and maybe we as a team need to move forward and play smarter and perhaps get some of these tricks going ourselves. I don't particularly like the idea,but if you can't beat them....
Referees have a tough gig,and see at as bias or not,but Shaun Wane did more damage to the referees credibility last night with his smug smirk when questioned than Anderson did with his responses. He has insinuated that his actions changed the running of the game...which is what PA questioned. I like Shaun Wane,great coach and usually a great watch in his post match interview due his honesty and sportsmanship, however he let himself down last night.

Gelling did NOT take Murphy into touch- the replay clearly showed that- it also clearly showed gelling trying to get him into touch by ragging him round his neck! So actually even if he had gone it touch should have been a penalty to us. Oh and it was a charge down his arms were up in the air to stop the ball, not outstretched to tackle the player.
Cheating? - perhaps not. influencing? - most certainly.

Bottom line is you know you are gonna get nowt from a ref when you go to Wigan,that's just the way it is.

We Lost get over it.

I say it every week if we are two scores better than the opposition the refs don't matter.

We could have Ben leading by 20 points if we had taken our chances in the first half.

We lost because we did not take our Chances and making too many mistakes in the first 40