Discipline will have to be very good on Friday as Roby is the referee.

Like Hicks, when he makes a mistake against the home side and the crowd get on his back he will look to penalise the opposition to get the crowd to cheer and them off his back.
Hicks, Roby and Child are dreadful for it. IMO Child being being the worst.

If we are to get anything out of the game a squeaky clean discipline regime has to be in force.
The leadership group must lead and not follow their instincts and get dragged in to the name calling and push and shove antics that Cas (like HKR) will employ.

A tough night anyway but with top class discipline the points are there for the taking.

Well with that news Ted it's not rocket science to predict the Cas team talk, going to be a long night

Under Maguire Wigan looked extremely well drilled. They were aggressive too but without it spilling over into petulance and needless foul play. They used to execute the gameplan really well and were rarely knocked out of their stride. Now it seems some players (Farrell is the best example) have gone away from what made them initially successful and are over playing their hand with the rough stuff.

I wonder if Wane is overdoing the aggressive motivational side of things. Angry players don’t usually think straight. I think cooler heads need to take over.

Exactly, everybody can see it, the question is can Wane and the players sort it out ?

Not as far as some one us to go but maybe a start

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Personally this is not far enough - a financial penalty would have more sway but it would have to be same ammount for each player based on earnings...

i.e sinbinning 10% of match fee or weekly wage
sent off 25% of match fee or weekly wage
Penalty for handbags 5%

That way everybody is being treated the same and the lower eraners are not penalised as much financially.

If in doubt - cut it out!

In my 20's i would not have seen 50 press-ups as ANY sort of punishment...

I hope we don't get the scenario were one of the less bright Wigan players knocks on and then starts doing his press-ups whilst the Cas players scoot off up the field.

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Dumb is fun, isn't it?



I was watching some old footage of Benji Marshall on Youtube yesterday. In one game against the Eels, he was awarded a penalty around half-way. He took a quick tap, and every single Eels players was looking away, facing their own goal. Benji ran right through them without a hand being laid on him, and dotted it down under the posts.



Duh!

Like Benji, Sam T did the very same thing against London (or Quins) a few years ago.

As for the 50 press ups for a knock on, that in itself seems ok.

So what is the sanction for giving away a daft penalty? On the SLS Matty said we conceded 15 pens in the HKR match. No mention of the punishment for that!
No doubt there is one and it will be severe, they've had the sense not to publicly announce it.
I mentioned a financial fine in another thread. That was also suggested in an earlier reply.

The penalties against are as big a problem as knock ons, if not more so!

Well, quite. Nobody knocks-on deliberately (although I accept it can happen if you're attempting an ill-advised offload, say), whereas you can choose to walk away from handbags.