Fair play to Wigan, absolutely shocking all game but somehow won, Shaun Wane is a very lucky man yet again though. Leeds are one poor poor side though, absolutely bottled that. Only Saints look any good so far.

Can't fathom why Leeds tried for a drop goal.

Wait a minute.

Contact with the head in the last 2 minutes with 1 point in it isn't a penalty?

And Leeds beat them away

Thahler saw the high shot on Powell, but missed Flanders breaking Handley's nose.
The ruck speed was awful, two scrappy performances.

16th March

Saints 20
Leeds 28

We let it slip tonight and didn't play well. Many people have written that same sentence in nearly every one of our title winning seasons.

Most teams would have beat Saints’ that night seen as they had a 52% completion rate. Thing is, that was Saints’ only poor performance so far.

I dont think Thaler DID see that high tackle (bounced up off the shoulder anyway).

Stay down and you'll get a penalty.

Get up and play the ball like Stevie Ward did twice in two tackles and you won't get a penalty

I'm disgusted by that, genuinely disgusted. Wigan spent that second half throwing themselves to the ground and Thaler bought every single dive. That last set of ours we could have had a penalty every tackle but suddenly he lost his whistle.

If Wane is as good as his word he'll drop half his team next week.

"exciting game" says Wane.

Boring team to watch, Wigan

Yes, you got mugged, not as bad as Catalan last week, but the ref looked a bit blinkered at times to put you out of favour.

That game had everything...

...that is wrong with the sport.

Boring, slow, whistle, inconsistent refereeing, diving, cheating, arguing with the referee, crude chanting, lacklustre play from elite players, players not at the standard these clubs should attract and a terrible production and commentary for the television audience.

Very few moments of quality. Tomkins' dg was as good as anything on show tonight and just about deserved to win it.

Think tonight showed a good argument for scraping the double header at Easter. 4th game in 14 days for both and it definitely showed. Play that the week before Easter or 3/4 weeks down the line I think you get a much better game. That was both teams on 30/40%

how dare two sides play so poor in the pooring rain, how dare they

TBF the weather wasn't exactly shocking but again the balls we use from Rhino (yes I know the name isn't lost on a Leeds fan complaining) but they do seem poor and most coaches have criticised them.

Here we go again!

It was a bit of drizzle and I never knew rain caused people to dive

Didn't the ref slip twice?

it wasn't raining during the game

Yeah it was - it was raining cheats, cherry and white cheats to be exact.

If the game is to carry on with the Easter double header then the RFL must time the marquee fixtures better. A Leeds vs Wigan game should be the pinnacle pretty much but both sides looked lethargic and in need of a rest. To play it within a couple of rounds of easter is wrong imo.

We were pretty poor last night but even at 8-0 I felt Leeds had been equally as bad and it just felt like neither side deserved much from the game.

Wakefield/Leeds wasn't a bad game last Sunday...

This. It was easily the most dire game of rugby league I have seen for years

Regards

King James

Diving , cheating and arguing with the referee is creeping into our game on a regular basis now Channel Islander .
The RFL and match officials need to stamp it out now . Penalise it with dissent, arguing or crowding the Referee results in ten minutes in the bin , do it again it’s a red .

Cheating / diving should be a straight Red , throwing the ball at a bloke on the floor to get a penalty is blatant cheating and you should walk for that . It seem harsh but it’s the only way to stamp it oiut of our game .

One rule is breached in almost every SL game I watch , the in goal drop out . I maybe incorrect but I thought it should be taken behind the line . The majority are well over the try line , another simple penalty to introduce , a tap on the 20 for the opposition .