Wakey fan.

Wrong call for me, should have been a penalty at the most. He messed up the tackle against a bigger man and came off worse, it happens in every game. I don't think it looked like he deliberately raised his arm to make contact. Odd that in two games this round there has been a soft card given against the teams who if they'd won would have pretty much closed out the top 4

It's ludicrous (and libellous) to suggest that the match was fixed by the RFL. Who are you actually saying is complicit? Nigel Woods, the referee and his assistants, the match commissioner and the entire disciplinary committee?

The decision was wrong because Hicks is a crap referee not because he's bent.

I didn't hear all this crap ref talk two weeks ago, then I suppose they were the salt of the earth

Ha, are you Hull fans this paranoid in everyday life, or just when it comes to rugby league?

Watts had his elbow slightly raised, which made contact and knocked McClorrum out, that description is clearly foul play.

You lost, get over it. Every time you lose it's the refs fault, just like the Leeds game the week before. It's very boring and childish.

Micky Mac is always dishing it out choose who they play, the only complaint I have with Watts is he didn't hit him hard enough.

so if watts had his knee slightly raised as mcillorum tackled him and watts hit him in the face because Macca mistimed his tackle then watts should be sent off for kneeing him in the face......get a grip

Bentham loaded the gun and hicks fired the bullets,Bentham messed up big style and if watts gets further punishment then the game is doomed

No, they were seriously inept in missing the foot on the dead ball line by a wigan player in the lead up to your 2nd try

Well they have to get something right every once in a while don't they?

Seriously though this thread is embarrassing. It was a bad call, that's it. No conspiracy, no corruption, just a case of the ref(s) seeing it different to how we did.

One of the things I always use as a measure in incidents like that last night is the reaction of players immediately after it's occurred. They know if foul play has taken place and they act aggressively towards the perpetrator. Watch the Wigan players, not one has a pop a Watts because they know that he didn't commit an offence.

From an outsider looking in, if that had been Bowden or Taylor and not Watts do you think the decision would have been different? I certainly do

Well im still fuming about it - The rfl is bent as that decision came from up above and not on the field