He went to the screen to check whether Phelps knocked on or if it hit his foot when Tomkins played the ball.

Despite the fact he signalled that it came off the foot.

What I'm looking forward to most is when he puts a little bit more muscle on, at the minute he's breaking through a lot of tackles but fails to break the final tackle which usually stops him from scoring, with that little bit of extra strength he should be able to shrug them off a lot better.

Tomkins had a good game. He's had better imo and took one or two bad options near the Wire line but overall impressive again.

When the lad has a couple of years experience at the back of him he's going to be one hell of a player.

would've been nice if it touched tomkins boot.

Briers is going to hospital for an xray on his face.

So they might have a player who is actually injured?

Oh come on... if they penalised every single PTB where the boot didn't touch the ball, we'd be stopping the game every set of 6.

What happened with that? just saw him running away holding his face, thought his nose was bleeding...

1 out of 2 isnt bad. I said on another post earlier that i wanted Wigan to run up their highest points score against them and for Briers to get a flying elbow. Get in .

I also said I would mount the foot path just to run him over. Gutted

no, no that's fair, how about we just penalise the ptb's where feka is stood facing the corner flag, at least meet me halfway, since that's all feka's doing.

but they did penalise that.

And if you watch any games on sky then you'll notice that hardly any POTB are actually rolled back using the foot these days.

They talked about it in commentary a few weeks ago, saying that if they were to clamp down on it there would be a few games with mass amounts of penalties until it got sorted out.

It will be the best birthday gift ever if he misses the final, for any reason.

The interview with Briers before tonights game was great, he has loads of photo's of himself in his wire kit all over his house. Vain prick.