Re: Wigan : Tue Mar 03, 2015 5:42 pm  

rover49 wrote:

This annoyed me, he let them lay on and slow the play the ball down but was in like a flash the minute we did it. I think that Wigan got away with it because they are Wigan and we are not renown for the speed of play, until this season. He lost control, resulting in too many 'handbag' incidents. At least he didn't 'engineer' a win for them, which he seems to do when he referees us. I'd say it was a poor performance, but not as bad has he has been in the past. (maybe because we won !!!!).

The linesmen were poor and unfit.

Sad man that I am I have just watched the game (at work) & to be fair to Wigan they did lay on but what they did not do was go back in for a second effort, just slow as hell getting off. We were penalised a couple of times but our players went back with another effort . What was bad was the 10 meters, he went back but Wigan stayed in front of him all day, it asks the question why don't we push the limit as well.

Re: Wigan : Tue Mar 03, 2015 8:00 pm  

Hasn't rochdale warrior been a lovely visitor over the last week and a bit, early contender for "Visiting Fan Of The Year".

Re: Wigan : Tue Mar 03, 2015 8:05 pm  

Sandra The Terrorist wrote:

Hasn't rochdale warrior been a lovely visitor over the last week and a bit, early contender for "Visiting Fan Of The Year".

Indeed he has. I hope he comes back to let us know if he got a seat with his pint.

Re: Wigan : Tue Mar 03, 2015 8:44 pm  

SirStan wrote:

Indeed he has. I hope he comes back to let us know if he got a seat with his pint.

Had to stand up but the band was ok !

Re: Wigan : Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:43 pm  

Beverley red wrote:

Sad man that I am I have just watched the game (at work) & to be fair to Wigan they did lay on but what they did not do was go back in for a second effort, just slow as hell getting off. We were penalised a couple of times but our players went back with another effort . What was bad was the 10 meters, he went back but Wigan stayed in front of him all day, it asks the question why don't we push the limit as well.

TBF to Hicks, who I thought had one of the best games I can remember him having, he was taking both sides back more than 10, metres and letting them stand in front of him, we did catch on to this eventually whereas Wigan were doing it from the off. At least thats how it seemed to me at the time.

Re: Wigan : Wed Mar 04, 2015 9:09 am  

I would rather a game be reffed like that - take them back 11/12 metres and if they are slightly in front then you know they are still onside, and if they are miles in front then it is a lot clearer they are offside in stead of trying to work on fine margins such as when ref's stand dead 10 metres. If anything you at least know the ref is not only going back 7/8 metres making it impossible to play rugby and allows for a more free flowing game, which i'm all for.

I don't think hicks was outstanding on sunday, but in what was a difficult game with the tension i thought he handled it ok. I think he was fair at least, and that's all you can ask for even if the decision making is not 100% and he pinged both sides for the same things. I can handle a ref consistently inadequate for both teams, but it's when it favours one of the bigger teams against you thats what really grinds my gears and i do not think we got that on sunday.

Re: Wigan : Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:19 am  

mean_machine wrote:

I would rather a game be reffed like that - take them back 11/12 metres and if they are slightly in front then you know they are still onside, and if they are miles in front then it is a lot clearer they are offside in stead of trying to work on fine margins such as when ref's stand dead 10 metres.

Or equally the linesman could look along the 10 metre line and ping anyone in front, basically do there job (if the ref listens to them)