The worst part of it for me was the players standing round for eight minutes in the freezing cold before the extra time was allowed to kick off due to the game clock not working. After one minute the referee should have called the two captains over and explained the situation, saying that he would take charge of the timekeeping and inform the players how long had gone/was left.

I'd imagine knowing how long is left would have a big impact on what teams choose to do within the GP period (e.g whether the other team have time to get back up field if they fluff a drop goal attempt, whether to run the clock down on a long range penalty attempt). You also lose the shot clock that way too, plus you want the ref looking at the action, not his watch. Regardless, unless I'm misunderstanding, the timekeeper retained the timekeeping duties, they just couldn't show the game clock. It's frustrating but I don't think eight minutes is an unreasonable time to spend trying to get it working. An engineer learning there is an issue and getting up to the gantry to have a look at it probably takes longer than a minute alone.

Wigan in crisis ?

Not quite Jean

8 minutes stood in the freezing cold waiting for a game to start is not good, either for the players or how it appears on TV.
I don't mind GP as it adds jeopardy to extra time, other than it just turns into a 5 drives and a drop goal if you can, I would rather it be a 'golden try' but given nobody could score in 80 minutes it may never of been forthcoming, or have it as a 2 point margin, that way a DG wont win it alone, but it could turn into players trying to milk penalties all the time

We've an eight week spell without a home game, probably do something about it then

Keighran has picked up 5 penalty points which leaves him any kind of charge away from a suspension

So what do the club do, play him and risk a minor infringement and miss Vagas or stand him down?

So we were a couple of weeks away from a cup final.

Could we see players potentially try and get a grade A ban; meaning they’ll get a rest and be fine for the final

Risky business, if you get to 12 penalty points it's an automatic 2 matches

Disgusting act from Keighran and in my opinion lucky to get only yellow, he knew exactly what he was doing as there seemed to be a lot of needle between him and L Lam all game, who for me is an excellent player for Leigh.