how was wheelers dissalowed try restarted with a drop out?

if he knocked on it shud of been wigan ball either restarted with a ptb or scrum.
if the ball was knocked out by a wigan player it should of been a penalty to saints.

so how was this a drop out??????

I've not watched it back on BBC yet, but to my mind, that was the only way it could've been a drop-out; if the ball was knocked out, backwards, by a Wigan player in a 1-on-1 tackle, and then grounded in-goal by Tommy.

My recollection of it is that there was more than one Wigan man in the tackle when the ball came loose, so I too was baffled by the GLDO decision from the video ref, and still am after reading people's interpretations here.

Because it was ruled as knocked out by Hughes, not Wheeler. Had the ball travelled away from our line instead of towards it, it would have been ruled a knock-on by Hughes. It wasn't a deliberate steal.

Any other time, an "accidental" knock out would be deemed a "loose carry", and therefore a defensive scrum. Still don't understand it.

And another thing, how come their offside at a 20 metre restart was given as penalty on the 20m, and not the 30? Offside is given as a penalty where the player shoold have been. The tackler was clearly offside on about the 27/28 metre line, so how come the penalty was taken back to the 20?

Just another example of the poor refereeing in a shockingly bad season for the officials.

I didn't watch the game back until last night but I was still none the wiser. As far as I'm aware, in the rules of rugby league should the ball come loose from the ball carrier's grasp during a tackle and hit the floor, "play on" is not an option that the referee can take, wherever it occurs on the pitch. A "loose carry" is still a knock-on, and although refs do tend to give a little more leeway to defenders attempting to wrap up the ball close to the try-line, stripping the ball out is still a penalty. Leuluai grounding the ball after it's come out is irrelevant because one or the other of these occurred before then. It should have been either a Wigan scrum, or a Saints penalty