That was a significant win after a rocky start. 


The main question I have: Was Mikey Lewis playing, or not? Sky Sports were never quite clear about it.

ZE looks like a future superstar to me , he might not be quite there yet , but he's 21 and you could get 10 years out of him.

I agree mate. AK's kicking is an enormous asset of course but Zach is already the greater attacking threat. He needs to improve his first contact in defense but he'll do that with more first team experience. I like AK but the potential in Zach at just 21 is there for all to see. 

At times sky barely paid attention to the lads on the pitch it was quite bizarre 

I think it was 5 -2 to them, of course. I had to count the penalties on S uper League match centre.

Smith giving an offside after they'd knocked on is a disgrace and clearly playing to the home crowd.


Lets face it, a ref can give an offside against the defending team, pretty much at anytime in the game and for me it needs to be a blatant offside to be awarded.

I'm happy we won, largely due to to the ridiculous comments from HKR fans online, blaming the ref and whatever else they can. There's been some ridiculous posts but the commentary from (I assume?) Rovers TV is hilarious and unbelievably tinpot.


There were a bunch of dubious calls in their favour, plus the on-field 'try' for Burgess when the ref hadn't seen it and the 5-2 penalty count.


How, after all of that, can you genuinely think that the referee is biased against you?  Can only assume it's new fans they've picked up in the last couple of years.

It is every single game they don't win. Such a passionate fan base and a club going places but they refuse to believe anybody bar the ref is ever at fault for defeats. It reminds of how Sam Tomkins said being a Catalans player is easy because it's never your fault when you lose and always the refs. 

No penalty points picked up, must be the corrupt RFL helping the biased Wigan refs

That happens all the time in games though. We got one or two decisions like that too. I re-watched the game last night, and, as so often, I didn't see too much to complain about with the ref's performance on a second viewing. I thought the obstruction in mid-field which handed Wigan possession ("You ran behind your own player" No he didn't) was pretty harsh.

the six again on the last tackle at 12-10 with ten to go killed rovers there was plenty of them in the game but that one looked dodgy ,rovers were gassed at that point wigan just about shaded it no complaints ,the rucks need more policing for every team