Are you seriously saying that Ganson was worth 44 points today?

Which 'perfectly' good try was denied? The winger well offside and within 10m, or the forward pass one?

just watching the SL show, Trent not too impressed with Saint Steve today

Wigan must have won again. Trolls are out in force!

Sadly, I can see this thread and maybe a couple of others being locked shortly.

All it's boiling down to is the usual wa***rs whining because today didn't go according to the script they'd fooled themselves into expecting.

If anyone is seriously saying that Wigan weren't 200% the better side today, and that the referee was the difference, they are so stupid or warped, or both, that they're not even worth entertaining.

But, it was forward. (Just cause Wiggy said it didn't doesn't make it so, until the third camera angle when he agreed it was).

It was as forward as Lima's at Wembley.

Had it been a legitimate pass then I agree it wasn't a double movement.


Catalans got away with as much (if not more) than Wigan did tonight.

It's now half time at the replay, and here's my assessment thus far:

First Catalan try denied perfectly fairly. Stacul was well offside. No issue with that decision at all. Even the King of the Wig-Wearing Muppets admitted that "to the letter of the law" (:lolicon_smile.gif it wasn't a try.

Not long after that we got the ball-strip on George Carmont, the elbow to O'Loughlin's head and the flop by Henderson on Pat Richards - all unpunished by Ganson.

The second French 'try' was clearly forward. Even Hemmings, despite his embarrassingly obvious disappointment, admitted it (though the third showing which he mentioned didn't show that it was any more forward than the first one did, so I wonder if someone had a word in his ear - i.e. "Try not to make your prejudice too obvious, you f*****g clown!"icon_wink.gif

Just before half-time we had the swinging arm from Sa. Which went unpunished.

At this stage it appears that the official is actually doing a lot more for Catalan than he is for Wigan.

Second half.

The Catalan player fumbles the ball over the dead-ball line. No controversy. Drop-out.

Wigan's next try is chalked off. No real complaint, though it could have been deemed that both the Dragon's players who were 'impeded' actually tacked the wrong men (one of them certainly did). It's consistent with the general clamping down on the use of dummy runners that seems to be happening whenever the video ref is present.

Now close to the end of the game, and the referee finally makes two mistakes that favour Wigan. The penalty for the ball-steal and the forward pass to O'Carroll, which goes unnoticed. Yet at this stage, the score is 38-0. I'm sure those decisions made a big, big difference.

Anyway, a couple of minutes later Wigan are penalised ridiculously for driving a man into touch. Even Warrington employee Brian Carney admits that the ref got it wrong.

I am still waiting for the deluge of pro-Wigan decisions that took this game away unfairly from the Dragons.

Now it's over, a few final thoughts.

The commentary was the least professional I've heard in the Sky era. The Club Call is little more than a gimmick. It is certainly not so big an issue that it's more important than what's happening on the field of play. You could have been forgiven at some points in the second half for thinking there wasn't a match on.

As for Stevo's main reason why the French lost so heavily - they were tired. Perhaps they ought to take that up with the Catalan fitness conditioner. Or maybe even Trent Robinson.

The anti-Wigan hype has now reached ludicrous proportions.

We are being criticised because a referee made the correct decisions (to Wigan's benefit, though he also ignored many infringements committed by Catalans) but probably wouldn't have made the correct decisions if they hadn't been for Wigan's benefit and therefore to be fair he should have got the decisions wrong.

You couldn't make it up. You really couldn't.

Yes Wigan appear to get the rub of the green sometimes and I aint a lover of Ganson but lets face facts Wigan played far better than Catalan and you only need to look at the final score to see who dominated the game.