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Wigan literally played Catalans a few years ago at Millwall, I recall it as I was there.

SL has had numerous on the road games over the years. Where was the outrage when Hull and Wigan played a game in Australia?

No, what do you mean?

Yea.. I came on to mention just that. Why have they got Tara Jane , Wilkin and 1 other person just sitting in what just looks like the concourse behind the stand.

I don't think it gets anywhere close to being a sinbin. Penalty sufficient.

Walters just too big and strong.

No one was obstructed.

Wigan look very slick, ball in hand. Good try that.

Moylan was out when he touched that. Not a good catch by the TJ there!

Get over it, it's done

Is it? I didn't realise.

What Eddie said - I don't believe they ever had the Scholars name as a RL club before going to Skolars due to the beer sponsorship that never ended up happening.

I know they technically play different positions - 6 & 7. But if Williams was the one playing behind KR's pack rather than Lewis tonight, he would have had numerous try assists.

It's the one I am clinging too

No. The benefit of the doubt has gone to the attacking team for years.

Ok, sure. You can think that. Personally I think the emotion got a bit too much, so he wasn't able to play his usual game. Rather than it being just the coach's plan. Epitomised by him kicking it dead on his first kick of the game. Guess we will find out how he takes the pressure and emotion next week.

Why would he be too eager to say Try? In most situations like that the referee regularly says "No Try" but he or one of other officials obviously thought it was a try. Of course he thought which of the two scenarios was more likely, it's his job.

Zero idea, but anyone that claimed the game was in the bag because of a 75% conversion rate is crazy or stupid.

And the referee I would assume thought that grounding was likely on the first attempt. I don't disagree with him personally, even with replays.

I mean, that is one way to excuse him not having a stand out performance. He didn't have the greatest game and that is fine - You don't need to excuse it by saying he was actually just playing to the coaches gameplan.

That is one explanation - but I am not inside the ref's head so I can't explicitly say why he made the decision he did.

You mean the one that said "this isn't about me" ? Never.

Indeed, I don't think the situations are as similar as some posters have made out. Thewlis used the ground to help maintain control of the ball, whereas Evalds caught the ball after it bounced off the ground, he didn't touch it before it bounced.

Yes, I heard Sam Burgess's comments on it, there was a whole conversation about that earlier in the thread. I don't know why the ref sent it up as a try rather than no try. Personally I like to give benefit of the doubt to the ref and say his TJ said he thought it was a try. I honestly don't have much of a problem with it overall, the replays didn't conclusively say it was a try or not a try, so it was clearly close and usually benefit of the doubt goes to the attacker.