The over reactions are laughable and it's not just fans reactions. I watched the incident were Eamon O'Carroll ran 20 yards to get to Sutton after Joe Mellor fell over the other night. That was embarrassing by O'Carroll!!

Sadly it's becoming common place against Wigan. Opposition teams don't like the aggression we display so blow up at every opportunity to try and influence the refereeing regardless of their being a foul or not. It's common place when we play Leeds and Widnes took it on the other night.

It's why we need to learn to not fall for it. Display the aggression, make the tackles and move away. We need to stop getting involved in slanging matches and games of push and shove.

No not at you personally. Just an observation that your comment fits about 90% of the posts on RL fans, and 100% of those about our so called "dark arts".

Haha fair enough.

If you want to go down the how many times have been penalised for foul play nonsense, then I think you'll see that for a "team of thugs" Wigans stats don't add up. Apart from Micky Mac, I don't see any of our players as being dirtier than anyone else. If you go on your board or the VT, we're the dirtiest team to have ever played the game! Hate-fuelled drivel anyone?

By the way, for someone who isn't dirty, that was a lovely cheap shot on Morgan Escare Friday night. It was nice of Sky not to show it again. If that had been a Wigan player, they would have been all over it, and your board among others as well as the VT would have been wetting themselves. He'll be getting some bans soon, the way he's played the last couple of games i've seen.

Absolutely spot on. Can't believe no one has jumped up and down about that cheap shot by Masoe. The biggest player on the pitch attacking the smallest, off the ball and it's Wigan who are thugs! That one incident was far worse than anything that happened Thursday. magine if one of our players had done that.

Are you talking about the incident in the 79th minute? Because that was one of the most embarrassing decisions of the weekend (though that award goes to the decision not to penalise Leeds for the most obvious obstruction ever) - Masoe went through as a dummy runner, Escare ran into his back tackling him and somehow that's a penalty. Masoe literally had no idea what was going on until he looked around. There's a 17 minute highlight reel on the Internet you can go check.

If you want something to jump up and down about, how about Pelissier literally jumping into Wilkin, hitting him high and late (and somehow still getting the penalty)?

Cheap shot? Wow. If you are incapable of posting without blinkers on then why bother? You are just making yourself look silly here.

I rewound the live coverage to try to see what happened, because I saw Escare with a bloody nose, it looked like Masoe had caught him as he ran past late and off the ball. I guess you don't always see everything as clearly on TV as you do at the game. Apologies for that if he did run into his back, it looked bad what little of Sky showed of it. I'm just fed up with the nonsense about us being labelled thugs. Flowers was the only red card last season, our disciplinary record is on a par with everybody else.

It looked like a cheap shot on the rewind I had to do, because Sky didn't show it again. If it wasn't I apologise for getting that wrong. We still no dirtier than any other team though.

I get the frustration to be fair, in an already stop start game it was incredibly frustrating for a Catalans player to go down every 30 seconds (usually after doing something they shouldn't have). I think escare hit Masoes arm/ elbow which is how he injured himself. I'll put it this way, if Masoe went down, Escare would of been penalised for tackling him off the ball

As I'm sure most of our fans will testify to, Masoe is more teddy bear than enforcer (unfortunately), and we have plenty of other players I'm sure opposition fans can get up in arms about (namely Burns and Wilkin)

I caught one quick glimpse of that on SSN news last night and on that view alone it looked like possibly the worst decision I've ever seen! I was hoping my eyes had maybe deceived me!

Hopefully not a sign that the refs have now lost the plot the other way on the obstruction rule.

Have to say, more based on what I saw of him for the Roosters rather than Saints, I always thought of Masoe as one of those, .like E. Crabtree and T Williams, who didn't really take advantage enough of their weight.

Unfortunately it doesn't make up for the "obstructions" wrongly given against us in 2013

That chicken wings tackle though

And at 50:18 there's pressure on O'Loughlin's knee which leaves him limping.