Re-watch the game if you can. Bentham was typically (not always but on most occasions) standing 12 metres back from where the play the balls were occurring (many refs do this - probably to get a better view of the defensive line - a ref doesn't have to stand 10m back from the play the ball so is no indication of where the players need to stand- the lines on the pitch give an indication of that). Yes players were in front of him but were not usually more than two metres in front of him (so were still onside). A defensive player doesn't need to be in line with the ref to be onside. They just need to be 10m from the play the ball. Similarly it doesn't matter if they were stood in an offside position but don't attempt to impact with the attacking team or the ball before retreating to be 10m away first. Many people were baying "offside" repeatedly when there was no infringement. There were some offside players not spotted but not nearly so many as a proportion of the crowd thought there were.

Going by the Wigan website we didn't even score 12.

According to the Sky Sports Score Centre and Sky Sports website Mossop kicked the conversion after Manfredi's try and Smith converted after Burgess's try.

It may surprise you to learn that the average tackle time is actually slightly faster in SL than the NRL has been getting marginally quicker each season since 2012

Yes, it would surprise me very much. Before this season, I might have agreed with you. But this year...?

Not sure about walked it but I'd agree we were one or two halfbacks away from a win for sure. Our forwards put us in the right position time and time again but we had no creativity or guile to make the most of it.

I'm surprised we stayed in the game for as long as we did give the personnel on show for both teams.