Re: Castleford vs Wigan Discussion. : Fri May 27, 2016 12:42 pm  

Powell should be more concerned by his players illdiscipline, thought it was really poor and one of the reasons they lost.

Saw loads on Twitter about how poor Thaler was, but thought he did OK and got most of the big decisions correct.

Re: Castleford vs Wigan Discussion. : Fri May 27, 2016 12:45 pm  

I wonder if another game this year will get 19 pages of comment?

Re: Castleford vs Wigan Discussion. : Fri May 27, 2016 1:26 pm  

Meefy wrote:

The offside at half time was deemed ok by Cummings because Gildart touched the ball behind where Manfredi knocked on, I'm not au fait with the exact rules so don't know the exact details but if that's the case then fair play to Thaler for seeing it if thats what occured.
The second gripe seems to be Bateman, and I thought that the penalty was given to Wigan for holding down, Bateman reacted with a slap on the head or as Castleford described it on their twitter feed as 'dropping an elbow', Dorn saw this and rushed in which then became a pile on. I think in the commentary it was mentioned that RL is not a sport where we reverse penalties so my interpretation was Wigan got the penalty and perhaps Thaler never saw the slap or whatever it was. Am sure the disciplinary will deal with it if anything is untoward with that.

The Castleford Twitter feed can really embarrassing and cringeworthy. Whoever runs it clearly failed their biology exam with regards to the human anatomy - only in Cas could you mistake a hand for an elbow

Re: Castleford vs Wigan Discussion. : Fri May 27, 2016 3:15 pm  

whilst watching the game, i thought cas were hard done too, but watching some incidents back, thaler wasnt that bad or made the wrong decision, especially the one right on half time, i was convinced, like others that it should've been a penalty to cas for offside, but seeing where the ball was lost then regathered nullified the knock on

to me, only the bateman incident was called wrongly


a couple of seasons ago, fc were involved in a game (against bradford or widnes, not to sure), but i remember us taking a short kick off and the ball got held up in the strong wind and it was blown back over the 10 without bouncing and we collected and it was waved play on, so i get the rule that the ball went back after it was spilled

maybe powell will be regretting some of those words today after watching the game back

Re: Castleford vs Wigan Discussion. : Fri May 27, 2016 3:27 pm  

number 6 wrote:

whilst watching the game, i thought cas were hard done too, but watching some incidents back, thaler wasnt that bad or made the wrong decision, especially the one right on half time, i was convinced, like others that it should've been a penalty to cas for offside, but seeing where the ball was lost then regathered nullified the knock on

to me, only the bateman incident was called wrongly


a couple of seasons ago, fc were involved in a game (against bradford or widnes, not to sure), but i remember us taking a short kick off and the ball got held up in the strong wind and it was blown back over the 10 without bouncing and we collected and it was waved play on, so i get the rule that the ball went back after it was spilled

maybe powell will be regretting some of those words today after watching the game back

Forgot about that Hull v Bradford game! Never seen it happen before, or since.

Re: Castleford vs Wigan Discussion. : Fri May 27, 2016 3:45 pm  

Big Steve wrote:

Wow!

I'm astounded at the number of well reasoned, balanced and fair comments in favour of Wigan on here.

Has some sort of reverse transforming filter been put onto thread ?

I'm glad that the talk was a good debate and didn't devolve into back biting and pettiness. Hopefully the Wire v Leeds thread can be much the same. I'm going to try and not be biased as hell when watching tonight haha.

Re: Castleford vs Wigan Discussion. : Fri May 27, 2016 4:29 pm  

Although Thaler made a couple of 'dubious' decisions, that didn't lose us the game. Bad discipline piggy backing Wigan up the field lost it us, and Matty Smiths kicking game was superb. It forced 3 repeat sets and Wigan had 4 more sets in the game than us. Simple! It's all set to be a belting cup tie at Wigan in a few weeks time now though

Re: Castleford vs Wigan Discussion. : Fri May 27, 2016 5:03 pm  

Bigboff wrote:

Personally would like to see someone put him a wheelchair ,nothing but a wind up merchant

You keyboard warrior, and total prick...

Re: Castleford vs Wigan Discussion. : Fri May 27, 2016 6:01 pm  

Good to see Tomkins is getting treated like any other player this time around, the first time he got a ridiculous amount of protection from referees, it was laughable.

Is Gale going to cop a ban for touching the referee, ala Mitch Allgood?

Re: Castleford vs Wigan Discussion. : Fri May 27, 2016 6:18 pm  

Nothus wrote:

Did I hear Brian Carney correctly then?
He claims that Thaler said Gildart wasn't offside because the ball went backwards? What? That's not how that rule works. At all.

Edit: Unless he means that it ended up behind Manfredi before Gildart touched it, which would make more sense...

and Jon Wells burst out laughing.