Actually, no. I wanted you both to lose as I can't stand either of you so I had no dog in this fight. But actually you were worse than Leeds in that first 20. Once you took notice of Ganson things rapidly improved and the match was enjoyable to watch. I just wish other refs would take his lead and sort out the bollox at the ruck pdq so that other matches can get moving.

Bollocks basically. We did no worse than leeds regards holding down.



The only difference being we generally had 3 in the tackles to their two; which is obviously going to take longer to clear.



I thought the first half was quite dull due to the fact it was so slow.

Ganson let Leeds get away with a fair bit more than he let us get away with imo. He did get a few key decisions right though and in the end the best team won.

I thought Ganson was right with peanising Wigan for laying on in the 1st half. It's a new trend in the game that poorer teams employ that needs stamping out.

I'm a bit of a fan of Ganson, but he was nowhere near consistent tonight. I thought his Saints roots showed.



His allowing Leeds to lie on when penalising us for the same. He certainly got in Fieldens face, and his [i'piece de resistance' [/iwas the placing on report of J.Tomkins.



No way was that a deliberate knee to the leg attack ! I know, I did enough when I played.

It was typical Ganson, trying to stamp his authority and set his stall out, only to stop doing it after 20 minutes. I didn't see any change in our defence but the penalties stopped. IIRC the same thing happened to Huddersfield last season after all the defeated coaches had a moan in the press about the slowing the play of the ball and the fefs seem to listen and penalise heavily only not to see the opposition doing it at the same time. As I said to my dad after ten minutes, if we keep doing what we have been doing and not listen to the ref, he will forget about it, and to me he did.

i thought he was a bit hars htowards us but i am going to watch it agian in about 15 minutes so i will make a proper unbias judgement after that

Ganson should be banned from refereeing Wigan matches, simple as. I bet he can't sleepp tonight knowin that Wigan won on his watch.

Having watched it back, he got most things right.



Joel on report was a joke.

Just watched the replay.



He had an excellent game. The only thing I can really question is the Joel Tomkins report incedent....There's nothing in it.



Other than that, he proved why he's the best ref in the comp.

The only major criticism I had of him were that he did the one thing I credited him in an earlier thread that he wouldn't do and that was succumb to the "holding down in the tackle" euphoria that's currently doing the rounds. I thought he was a strong enough charactor to ref it on it's merits but it was clear from very early on that he'd decided to make a pont and was penalising with no real consistancy. I said at the game that I didn't much mind this if he did the same both ways. Unfortunately he'd set his stall out to penalise only Wigan for the offence in that opening 15mins or so and, frankly, I thought he was a better ref than that.



Couple of silly calls, like the Joel "report" and penalising Fielden (the incident when Fielden got pulled out and spoken to) and I'm sure Leeds fans will have some calls they weren't happy with. Overall though, not a bad performance and got more right than he got wrong.

Like everyone else i really dont get the Joel on report thing, it wasnt even a penalty! I've seen more violent things in my grandmas kitchen for gods sake, what an idiot. Thought he had a good game other than that though. I am abit worried about our lying on tbh though.