cpwigan wrote:Not even sure how we do it BUT somehow we need to reverse the campaign and it is becoming just that. Melbourne suffered exactly the same. It struck me Ganson went into last night match with a pre meditated plan to respond to what he is reading / hearing in the media and show Wigan who the boss is.
I said something similar when I was at the match and he started the game the way he did. It seemed pre-meditated to me and a direct response to the comments in the media. I also said if there was a ref who was going to make anything out of this then it was him.
The mentality of Ganson is tht he need to show people he is the boss etc and at the same time because it is popular at the moment gaining kudos in RL as a whole.
Unfortunately I think you may be right and I think back to the "not in the spirit of the cap" ruling that went against us with the salary cap. There was nothing in the rules to prevent what we did then and NRL sides routinely deferred wages.
Well there is nothing in the rules against the tackling technique and NRL sides employ it routinely as well.
In the former I remain convinced we got done due to the RFL bowing to the media frenzy and I can see the same happening again.
At away games it is going to become a real problem. Every tackle Cas fans were screaming last weekwend. Tonight we hardly had the ball for the first 10 minutes. We cannot play without the ball.
Well it was Cas who screamed the loudest over the Salary Cap thing as well.
If at he end of the day the tackling technique is penalised out of the game it will be our loss internationally because the Aussies won't stand for that when we play them.
I do find it strange opposition coaches simply don't just train their sides to do the same thing rather than bleat about it. Maquire managed it in a short off season so it can't be that hard!
Dave