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  1. 3 hours ago, Padge said:

     

    One frame tells you nothing.  😐 unless from a high speed camera to stop motion blur.

    In this instance, doesn’t a single frame tell you all we need to know? If any part of the ball hits the ground at any point it’s a try. I am surprised it take the VR more than a second to conclude it was a try. It was a terrific game between 2 teams who have already, I would humbly suggest, exceeded most people’s expectations. It was particularly impressive, given that neither side had had a week off, and yet they found the juice to go toe to toe. It’s not just that they have really shaken up the “established order”, but that they have done so in such an entertaining way. 

    Next stop for HKR is away to us for a semi final. And we all know how the last one went. 

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  2. 2 hours ago, sam4731 said:

    Wigan looked strong favourites for this game but given the suspensions of Hill, Ellis and French who were all expected to play some part in the game, it looks to be a tighter affair.

    Hill may well have played. If Havard returns, he may not play again this year. He is a talented player who is unlucky to miss the final. 

  3. 4 hours ago, bobbruce said:

    Has anyone checked the interchanges from the semi final yet. 

    Funny you should say that, given that the interchange rule that we were caught on was one that had not been applied in regular season attaches, that Wire accepted the result and were happy to play us, but Saints raised the issue and refused to accept that outcome. You can rest assured that Saints are all over potential Wigan breaches. 

  4. I am a fan of the disciplinary process as a process. I think it applies the rules consistently, within clear guidelines. As far as I can tell the point here is not that the process is wrong but rather that this rule is wrong. It didn’t just appear, the clubs accepted it and a number of them have “benefited” from it in the past. So, the controversy has actually nothing to do with Wigan, however much that is the spin some posters would like to put on it. 
     

    if people don’t like the rule they should get annoyed with their clubs, including Wire, HKR and Leigh. 
     

    I would also note that in this instance, as opposed to the usual way this exception works, Wigan benefit because we have invested enough into our reserves to have qualified for the this final. 

  5. So, a rule was applied correctly. Which is WIgan’s fault how exactly? It is testimony to our club’s talent that we were able to benefit (as opposed to clubs usually benefiting through being knocked out of the cup). If other clubs had invested enough in their reserves to stop us making the final, or if we hadn’t finished top, thus earning a week off, then we couldn’t have benefited. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, Harry Stottle said:

    I did and I also watched the previous 32 mins, making 52 mins in total when Wigan could not score another single point, when did you expect them to score the 82nd, 85th or even 90th minute.

    And there would have been no need for Wigan to drop a goal they would have lost by a point, Ben Reynolds would have kicked the goal had the try been awarded naking the score 12 - 10 you are probably mixing Reynolds up with Harry Smith on goal kicking ability when we all know Smith is pants in that dept.

    And how you have the gall to call someone for telling the future!

    I see. You were certain to kick the goal. Of course you were. Are they printing papers in Leigh with the correct score? You could even stage your own Grand final victory parade, after beating Hull KR, Catalans and Saints along the way. Who scored the tries that clinched it for you? 

  7. 1 hour ago, GUBRATS said:

    Was what it you were saying about predicting the future ? 

    I know you are really deeply disturbed by this, and so will tread carefully. I did nothing of the sort. I asked whether anyone watched the last 20 minutes, as in that time Leigh failed to get out of their own half. If I had your sliding windows machine I would simply put a link up to what happened next and leave it at that.

  8. 3 hours ago, ELBOWSEYE said:

    It cost Catalan a league leaders shield and £100k, 

    And Saints would have finished second, and Wigan’s new owner would have realised he had been sold a pup, and closed the gates…

    Did anyone actually watch the last 20 minutes? If so, if the scores had been tied, who was in a position to get a drop goal? Or, indeed, had there been more at stake, who was going to score the deciding try. 

  9. 50 minutes ago, GUBRATS said:

    We can go back through all 26 previous matches to find things that happened which would have affected the final finishing positions , but the final game is different , before the game I felt and spoke that we beat Wigan and we IMO make the final , very confident of beat HKR at home and Catalans away ( 2 very close games at theirs this year ) 

    However going into a bearpit on Friday at Hull and then having to back up away at Wigan will IMO be too much , I I don't expect us to win this Friday , but I'll still be there , just going to get my ticket now 

    I had no idea that you had perfected your predict the future machine. Congratulations.  

    Is there any way we can crowd fund some counselling for you? 

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  10. 9 hours ago, unapologetic pedant said:

    Not all. Magpies v Giants AFL had a 97k crowd and twice as many Metro FTA viewers as Panthers v Storm.

    Much better figures for NRL on Saturday.

    I watched a YouTube video of the end of Friday's MCG atrocity exhibition. Nothing more than 2 minutes of preposterous fumbling and bumbling. Something has gone horribly wrong in Oz.

    I have no idea who those people are, being in the 99.999999% of the world with zero interest in Aussie rules. We have the greatest game and have crushed it. Across the region we are now utterly pre eminent with daylight second. 

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  11. The NRL is letting the game do its own talking. They have the greatest game, and have learnt how best to make it more accessible than ever. The game speaks for itself. It is no surprise to see them crushing all the sporting “competition”. Sitting back and watching the Warriors and the Broncos thrill us with speed and finesse having spent the previous morning cowering behind the sofa as the Panthers put on a truly terrifying display of strength. What we are seeing is the natural consequence of putting the game front and centre. 

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  12. 2 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:

    In '17 at Salford a Leigh player got sent to the sin bin and then got 4 matches, his crime was he touched the ref's forearm to remonstrate a decision, now please describe to me why without there being any rule changes French should be let off for putting his hand on the refs shoulder to do the same?

    I am not laughing at what might or might not have happened or will happen. I am laughing at your “oo horrid Wigginers, with their horrid pies and their horrid ways” rantathon. Feel free to continue to your heart’s content: let TRL be your primal scream therapy. 

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  13. 5 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:

    Is that the crying or laughing emojis EW, did French make deliberate contact with the official or not? as I say if there is any justice he is sat on his brown one for a while.

    Then you can comment with a crying emoji.

    It made me laugh, and still does. What next “Look at their horrible kit, and the way they comb their hair, and they all smell of cabbage…”? Knock yourself out. 

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