Get over yourself. The guy's a bloody genius and if he'd been playing for you, you'd be saying how wonderful he was.
You should be more worried about loony Luaki who cost you the game and ought to be looking at a long ban. How glad am I that we got rid of him.

I do genuinely think he was injured, in those first few moments after the incident he really hadn't a clue where he was. Legs gone the lot. I couldn't believe he stayed on the pitch, he was extremely quiet after that and certainly didn't make me cringe when he got the ball like he had done previously, made a few good passes but definitely none of the rip tearing runs he had made earlier. The blood pouring from his head was appalling that the ref didn't make him leave. I couldn't believe that our forwards didn't exploit that and run at him. I just wondered whether the incident at the round ball event last week has impacted on our sport. Did players avoid him knowing he was hurt?

Didn't we have a stop in play 1st half whilst a Wigan player got a head bandage ?

Amazing, really. I've been watching the game for forty years and I've never seen a ref miss a player offside at the ptb before.

"Retire at play-the-ball (g) players of the side not in possession other than the player taking part in the play-the-ball and the acting half back are out of play if they fail to retire ten (10) metres from the point at which the ball is played or to their own goal lines. Players of the side in possession other than the player taking part in the play-the-ball and the acting halfback must retire behind their players involved in the play-the-ball or to their own goal line."

"Indicating ten metres The Referee should usually position himself ten metres behind and to one side of the point at which the ball is played as a guide to the team not in possession. If tackling is excessively keen or play is unnecessarily rough, the referee may forsake the ten metres position in order to be nearer the players involved in the tackle."

My interpretation, given the two rules quoted above, is that the defending players are on-side at the PTB if they are 10 metres back regardless of where the ref is. The PTB before the Briers inerception was about a metre before a white line and the ref had the defenders, except Briers, back to the next white line, so Briers was about 10 metres back and the other 11, so I doubt the VR would have dis-allowed it anyway.

Briers does what he does, we tried the same play around three times and Lee just took advantage of our predictable play..

Your interpretation is correct which is why it annoys me when ppl scream and shout that players are in front of the ref so offside.

Listening to the ref/linesmen on a scanner, I honestly lost count how many times the touchies called Wire offside, either at the scrum, (5m) or at the play the ball, it was Briers offside left, 'AND INVOLVED' only to be waved away with a quiet, 'ply on' from Silverwood.

Good on Briers for getting away with what he can, but it is about time that we had a little more consistency all round really.

Great game nonetheless and without Briers, Wire would have been very ordinary, so you can't knock him really.

I agree though that we should have run at him when he was groggy and also at Chris Bridgewhen he was seeing stars, but I am sure that Waney will look at decisions liek this during the week.

Was it not? Makes it worse then I was in the south as I used to have a Season ticket in the east but work means I can only get to about 3-4 games a year that was my 1st and I needed a holiday to make that one. Anyway yeah I couldn't hear the other stands so I didn't know others did it. Surprised wire fans aren't kicking off about that Tbh.

Get over myself? I didn't realise I'd posted any comments about myself. As for Briers, I would hope nobody would go so far as to applaud professional fouls or ungentlemanly conduct just because a player plays for them. I've rarely commented on Briers and 90% of what he does is brilliant for his team, even when it stretches the rules, but I reserve the right to call him on it when he breaks them.

you musnt have done much clapping under madges 2 year reign then.

As I recall there was plenty to clap about. You guys, not so much.

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Didn't you see the blood capsule get splatted on the side of Briers head to stop play ? If its good enough for Yawnion & Harlequins its good enough for Super League & Wire !

Pathetic thread.

I wouldn't draw attention to that ill-fated League Leaders shield if I were you. The last thing you really had to clap about was the CC win back in 2010.