I remember the Rangi one, on Ferres I think, but it did injure Ferres. I think they said Ferres was looking at a long spell out of the game so they gave Ranfi 7 matches. Ferres was back in 2 weeks!
If I had to criticise the tackle it would be for the excessive force the lad went in on the back of the knees, it wasn't needed.
Fifita looks as if he's held and is getting ready to play the ball.

Watch the video again Fafita was still moving forward if any thing the tackle was under his backside more than anything. He should be cited for posting that on twitter bringing the game in disrepute.

If you think you are wasting your time don't come on our forum spouting rubbish,stick to your own forum with the rest of the west Yorkshire inbreds

Don't know how you get moving forward when his feet are planted, he was stood side on when it happened

Certainly not up to our usual standards!

From a Wakefield fan who's actually watched the game back.



I think we're getting a little closer to a rationale point of view here.
I do think there may be something to look at I the fifita tackle, only seen it once but he does seem to tackle whilst not in control of his movement (I.e. he may have been off his feet when he made contact).
I wouldn't say it's the worst I've ever seen but it definitely should be checked and he may get a game or 2.

The rest, maaahhh.

PS
I think they may want to look at the borough trip.
Not 100% sure, but there's three to something not normal about it.

It was always a good day/night out. Time we brought Blackpool into super league.

Now we are down to a trial by social media obviously this is the footage of Wakefields official video tape for the game not somebody who has taken it from a phone camera .

The tackle looks completely unnecessary which is a bad start, and it only takes a players leg to be planted at a slight angle for that to do serious damage.

No need for it, shouldn’t happen and he should pick up a ban.

As a Saints fan I hope he doesn’t as he’s garbage IMO.

On the flip side I’d be utterly amazed if all the Wakey injuries were down to foul play. Sounds like a mixture of being unlucky/frustrated with injuries and there being a couple of naughty tackles in the game - without the two necessarily being linked.

I haven't seen the match video yet but according to a Wakefield fan who has, none of their injuries was even down to foul play. We could have just as easily bleated about Cas' foul play last week as a reason for our leg injuries, intimating it surely wasn't a coincidence that they were knee injuries. Of course it would have been utter nonsense too.

The problem here is they are playing to stereotyping. Wigan have a reputation based on the Maguire era (before it was banned btw) and so every leg injury is now due to Wigan's 'dirty tactics'. The truth is all clubs, including yours, employ the 'third man round the legs' tackle. There were many, many examples during all three televised games this week.

The simple fact is that Wigan's record in this department is no worse than any other team and, certainly in other areas of foul play, many are far worse. Of course, this doesn't fit the 'Big, bad Wigan' narrative that opposition fans like to play along with so conveniently gets swept under the carpet under the deluge of social media faux outrage.

The Powell one looks bad and if he picks up a ban then fair enough. He won't be the first and he certainly won't be the last. However, from the video doing the rounds he's clearly not doing anything against the directive on 3rd tackles as he is applying force in the direction the knee bends. For my own part, I still don't much like it because of the vigour he's doing it with but I could quite easily pick out another dozen of this type from the televised games alone. They may not look as bad but the net result (i.e. attacker brought to ground while stationary with no resulting injury) would be the same.

Let's see what the disciplinary say.

there was 3 in 5 minutes watching the catalans game last night, no one moaned and got on with it, same at wakey no one moaned at the time either, classless from Fafita

I saw those. There was a particularly reckless one in the first half from Catalans too but as you say, nothing said about it either during or after the game. Of course Catalans aren't 'known for it' so it didn't happen. Had they been feigning injury to waste time though... Just watch that twitter feed go! Tells you all you need to know really.

Powell two matches, nothing for anyone else.