Ganson tonight

[Kiwiseddon]

Just a quick post but I thought Ganson had a very good game. I watched on the TV and can't remember one decision that I thought he got wrong. The only real howler was the forward pass for their third try but the TJ should've called that.
At least we weren't outdone by a poorly reffed match.

[OJ]

Ganse was ok tonight, just us that weren't so good and the cynical side of me wasn't surprised that the touch judge didn't see the forward pass as he's the one who is all loved up with a fanatical Wire fan, don't doubt it wasn't intentional unless he was trying to avoid serious earache later on tonight and decided to do a passable impression of Nelson!

[Matthew]

We weren't good enough for it to matter. Didn't think that he was that good, morley got away with his usual dozen or so head high tackles that weren't punished - but you expect that after all these years.

The third try was a howler - but I doubt it would have matter if they had called it

[F C Dobbs]

Thought Ganson did well today.Kept up the humour with Morley and McIlorom,,(stop kissing)....As for the Monaghan try with looked like a blatant forward pass,is it not up to the touch judge to advise him on that?,

[Kittwazzer]

Thought Ganson did well today.Kept up the humour with Morley and McIlorom,,(stop kissing)....As for the Monaghan try with looked like a blatant forward pass,is it not up to the touch judge to advise him on that?,

That pass was forward by the length of an Alsatian and could have changed the complexion of the game. It happens!

[TrueBlueWarrior]

Thought Ganson did well today.Kept up the humour with Morley and McIlorom,,(stop kissing)....As for the Monaghan try with looked like a blatant forward pass,is it not up to the touch judge to advise him on that?,

That pass was forward by the length of an Alsatian and could have changed the complexion of the game. It happens!

It was forward and could have had an impact on the game if chalked off but I think the finch dropped pass, the Thornley dropped high ball, the Mossop missed tackle, the charged down kick from Smith, dropped balls, weak forwards, offsides, shall I go on? had more to do with the result than Ganson, he made 1 mistake and we made 17!

[Kiwiseddon]

I appreciate people posting on how Ganson didn't influence the result, it was more a post on how well he did. We, on here are highly critical of Refs all the time and blame them for a our losses. I'm not a big Ganson fan, I hate that his ego sometimes takes over. BUT, last night he was pretty much faultless and kept a lid on the game without his ego becoming a factor. For that, I think he deserves a bit of credit as it's all very well slating refs when they get it wrong but we ought to credit them when they get it right.
I don't think he influenced the game but isn't that the point, he was rather anonymous all things considered which allows the players to play and the score gave a reflection of the game rather than it being a reffing decision that decides the score.
It was a massive game and he held onto it admirably. Well done Steve!

[ian.birchall]

I appreciate people posting on how Ganson didn't influence the result, it was more a post on how well he did. We, on here are highly critical of Refs all the time and blame them for a our losses. I'm not a big Ganson fan, I hate that his ego sometimes takes over. BUT, last night he was pretty much faultless and kept a lid on the game without his ego becoming a factor. For that, I think he deserves a bit of credit as it's all very well slating refs when they get it wrong but we ought to credit them when they get it right.
I don't think he influenced the game but isn't that the point, he was rather anonymous all things considered which allows the players to play and the score gave a reflection of the game rather than it being a reffing decision that decides the score.
It was a massive game and he held onto it admirably. Well done Steve!

Agreed to all of the above, if Wigan had been as good as Ganson we would have won comfortably but for the second BIG game in a couple of weeks we failed to turn up completely.
Who really believes Wane when he said after t'game that he played a clearly unfit Finch (and Hanson and Prescott) because Powell was injured, no word or sign of that, I think he did the coaches usual trick of bottling it and opted to play an unfit Finch rather that an untried but promising fit player.