Last week Leigh conceded 1 penalty v us. Be interesting to find out how many they conceded v HKR
Also after conceding 1 penalty against us let's see how many Leeds give away at Wire next week.


From those figures above it appears curious that referees are appearing to change their criteria when refereeing our opponents. 

You're obviously watching a different Leeming to everyone else then, he can't stand at dummy half without doing a gull wing impersonation while mouthing off and looking in the Refs direction. 

Hudds
vs. Wire - 7 pens conceded
vs. Leigh - 7 pens conceded
vs. Hull - 3 pens conceded
vs. Wigan - 0 pens conceded (0 given against us) - I think this is actually wrong in the stats. I think it's more like 1 penalty against us, 2 against Hudds.
vs. Salford - 5 pens conceded


Leeds
vs. Wakey  - 4 pens conceded
vs. Salford - 3 pens conceded
vs. Cas - 2 pens conceded
vs. Catalans - 5 pens conceded
vs. Wigan - 1 pen conceded (5 given against us)


Leigh
vs. Wigan - 1 pen conceded (3 given against us)
vs. Hudds - 3 pens conceded
vs. Catalans - 6 pens conceded
vs. Hull - 7 pens conceded
vs. Hull KR - 6 pens conceded


Hull
vs. Catalans - 7 pens conceded
vs. Wigan - 3 pens conceded (4 given against us)
vs. Hudds - 6 pens conceded
vs. Leigh - 7 pens conceded
vs. Wakey - 5 pens conceded


Incredible really how well behaved teams are specifically when playing us. We should be truly honoured.

I think I was 1 out in fairness to the refs, we've actually had 9 penalties this season, so that's only 24 behind Saints, 21 behind Leigh and 20 behind HKR. 


At least there is a comeback for everyone when we get the usual 'Wigan get everything' lines thrown out, each and every time we win/score a try/play a game. 

And in the interest of giving the whole picture, how many penalties have Wigan conceded against those teams?

And the Hull one included the incident when AK was injured that should have been a card but wasn't even given as a penalty! Same on Eckersley on Saturday. 


I'd seriously like to hear from the club that they're questioning this. It just doesn't stack up. 

We're the least penalised side in the league with 16 but that's not the point. Our discipline being good does not mean the others sides is automatically very good. We can only legally control our own discipline and we've been doing ok with that but why does every side have comfortably their best disciplinary performance of the season against Wigan? It simply can't be a coincidence. 


I'd love to know if there is a technical explanation of how we attack and defend that could explain it there being so few penatlies in Wigan games (yet we still always lose the count).  I know Grimmy who posts on here is something to do with refereeing and somebody like that ay have a plausible reason. 

That's a massive 1.8 penalties a game on average! What are we moaning about? Haha

Sunday will tell a story. Salford have given away 41 penalties this season, so they're averaging just above 8 per game. If we're down at that zero to 2 or 3 mark again, it really is time to ask questions. 


Thank heavens for small mercies anyway. When I saw Jack Smith was reffing us Saturday, I was thinking it may be another 13-1 penalty count, like we had at Wire (against kids) last season. As it was, it was only 5-1 and it felt like it was about 5-0 on the set restarts. Pretty decent of him that. 

3 nil to Leeds in resets I was told

Not getting into this too much but I don't think you can moan too much with the six agains against you. Like us during the Woolf era you push the ruck time to the limits, slowing players down, usually Farrell coming 3rd man in and definitely slow down the ruck. This isn't an anti-Wigan thing, as I've said we were guilty of it for a while (and still are to an extent) but I'd wager that most non-Wigan fans would agree. 

I can live with that for sure. Faz was a joke on Saturday in truth and I can live with any opposition fan looking at our discipline and any tactical approach to slow a game down but it doesn't give any explanation to the flip side, which is my focus and that is that we've been given 9 penalties in 5 games (I have no stats for six agains but I'm pretty confident it would be a pretty low figure as well). 

This isn't just you btw but every opposition fan that has responded to these points has gone 'you deserve to be penalised', totally ignoring us talking about what we get, not what we give away.