merged Ben Thaler Thread

[Hanley the God!]

Thank you very much. You cheating f****ing ass****s!!!

Although we were pretty poor ... to be fair!!!!

[Kittwazzer]

Thank you very much. You cheating f****ing ass****s!!!

Although we were pretty poor ... to be fair!!!!

Thought Thaler was a bit blatant. Swerved the VR for 2 of Leeds tries but used him for one of ours which was sound.

But I'll say it again, the game was lost in the first 5 minutes. Sometimes, even Superstars have a bad day.

Time to move on!

[Matthew]

We were poor - thaler was worse.

Were the whinoes back ten at any point in the match? Never mind actually being square at marker. The missed forward passes from them must have been into the 30s. Baffling decisions and complete lack of control on the game. What does it take for a whinoes player to be sent to the bin? Surely dragging someone's leg when they broken 30 metres down field should qualify?

RL will never challenge union when the rules are so poorly enforced.

Need to forget about today and focus on securing the hubcap and then kicking on to the GF.

Gutted

[cpwigan]

Sadly if you do not play well you allow officiating to become a factor. Only Ben Thaler will know whether or not he was incompetent or corrupt. The McGuire knock on to not even go to the VR suggests the latter.

However, our poor display ultimately gave Thaler / RFL their opportunity.

[Jules]

No ref is corrupt in the game, but they all have bad days.
Today was just a very bad day for the officials. Was he backed up in any way by his touch judges here? If one had made the call on either of the two obvious non trys, 2nd try and the obvious knock on, then he may have gone to the video.
Two teams were poor today, Wigan and the officials.
Leeds were excellent.
It does say something, and its only a crumb, that when WIgan play badly, and the officials give away 18pts to the opposition, we only lose by less than 10 to the world champions.

Fortunately we will have a proper scrum half for the rest of the season. But we really need Pat back and some better attitude.

[Jules]

Correction, lost by 11. Stopped watching with 2 mins to go. Can you balme me

[Kittwazzer]

However, our poor display ultimately gave Thaler / RFL their opportunity.

So let's all root for a Giants win tomorrow and give the RFL what they deserve. An empty Wembley Stadium!

[neilwigan]

Before you read this don't get me wrong Wigan weren't good.

However i think that if it was a different referee we could have taken it closer. In my opinion Ben Thaler had an awful game. How did he let that try go through?

Also i would like to raise the point that everyone says Wigan fans always talk rubbish about the referee. But i start to get the feeling sometimes they are bias against us!

[Kittwazzer]

This post did not warrant a separate thread

[Kiwiseddon]

I do not believe that the refs are biassed. Useless sometime, yes. Make bad decisions, yes.

Up to today I've had no problems with refs other than Alibert just because he's weak but today there's no doubt that Thaler had a massive impact on the game.
But here's the rub, I don't want to have to blame reffing for our losses. That's the talk of losers. in every walk of life, if someone finds a reason for their failings 'being someone elses fault' the they are a loser. With refs, you have to take the rough with the smooth. I haven't seen one mention of the decisions we got in our favour when we beat Leeds last year in the CC final but they're there to see. We just choose to ignore them now. The Leeds fans, quite rightly are saying what goes around comes around. In a way that means that they accept that they had the rub of the green but we should've just found a way to beat them and we didn't. The ref is to blame but so are we. And we can't do anything about the ref. So let's concentrate on what we can fix. Next week. Smash London and get back on track.