Nobody expected you to be "far off", as usual, as on and off the field of play Wigan are officiated in a completely different way to every other club. Their demise is obvious to everyone and to be honest, even you must admit that the thuggish display trotted out as sport last week was a disgrace. Did Wigan even play any rugby? It was obvious the powers that be were going to give Isa a slap on the wrist when it transpired that in the SKY highlights package, a major talking point of the match, Isa attacking a prone defenceless player with a direct blow to the head is not even featured! Rather like covering the "Ben Flower" Grand Final and not showing poor Ben attacking a defenceless player in a prone position directly to the head! Player welfare, don't make me laugh. Can your team sink any lower?
Indeed you do - you understand the disciplinary panel is a farce. Yet you still underestimated the ban.
Then again you also said Iain Thornley was a massive loss to RL, James Roby was just a scooter and owning your own stadium is a bad thing so maybe you don’t actually know anything or are incapable of balance.
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The problem is how the offences are written up I think. That's how he got away with the attack on Percy at our place. It allows the panel to look favourably at the incidents. The Welsby one & the Percy one on Friday are clearly deliberate yet neither are written to infer the intention to cause injury.
It's almost like they want him to get off ?
The refereeing and the disciplinary are both abysmal. I know many are unhappy with the current grind in many of the games (with justification) but the one thing that would stop me attending is when I have no faith that the way games are refereed is fair. Getting very close to that point. What is the point of following a sport if you are not certain everyone is treated the same.
Throughout the fallout of the Flower assault on Hohaia aftermath, Rogues never quite got to admitting that Flower started it by knocking Hohaia to the turf on the kick chase. Total and utter denial that the 'biggest club in Rugby League' (more nonsense) can do anything wrong.
FWIW, I don't think Bentley was going to do much damage with the force he put on the kick to Bateman's head but I think he should have got a lot more than 1 game. Really like him as a player but that was out of order.
Rogues is just a wind up merchant. Best thing everyone can do is to add him to your ignore list.
Spot on that about 2014 GF. Flower roundhoused Hohaia in the back of the head in the kick chase and ran off. Eventually Hohaia caught up with him and sort of charged into Flower, then got immediately sparked out
Wigan fans tried to change the story and told a load of lies about Hohaia being the aggressor despite it being on TV. Unfortunately for them people in St Helens can afford SKY Q and don’t watch TV on an old analogue set from the 90s like Wiganers do
"The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom." Danny Blanchflower.
Might have been written by a footballer about football - but never a truer word............
"The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom." Danny Blanchflower.
Might have been written by a footballer about football - but never a truer word............
Yes they do review the videos (of every game) This is from a few years back but the procedure is still very similar.
https://www.skysports.com/watch/vide...cedures/more/7