He was trying to make a tackle, got done by a little step and made direct contact with the head and completely cleaned him out. Was it malicious, I'd be very confident to say no. Was it reckless, I suppose that depends on your definition of the word reckless.

I hope Annakin didnt suffer any serious injury and is back on the field soon. I stand by my original opinion, red card was the correct decision however I've seen worse not get carded, 3 match ban, probably reduced to 2 if he has an EGP available.

Got caught out by the step and threw a lazy arm. You can always tell when players deem something to be a "horror tackle" by the reaction, no players came running in, no pushing and shoving etc. Deserves a ban though, was clumsy.

Exactly. Just about to post this.

3 games

Yep, and not a single head butt either.

Watch the replay. At the point of collision O'Loghlin has both arms around Annakin, which suggests he is attempting to affect a regular "ball and all" tackle. The arm that makes contact with Annakin never actually rises above O'Loghlin's own shoulder level, there's nothing particularly high about it, let alone "swinging". Compare that to, say, [url=https://youtu.be/INzmrDRAtSUFrancis Meli on Craig Hall[/url from a few years back. Now that was a wreckless swinging arm! O'Loughlin's isn't even in the same league.

If he gets downgraded for that one,I'm giving up supporting the game.Intention regardless of outcome.

Intention to do what, hurt him? Or tackle him?

I can sit here all one eyed and say you're wrong if you're saying he tried to hurt him but I'm interested in your view. All I can say in Lockers defence is he's obviously got no previous for trying to hurt people intentionally. You don't go through a 14 year top flight career with no sending offs, suspensions or even yellow cards for foul play without being a pretty decent lad.

If he gets 3 or 4 games I won't have an issue but I'll defend there being any malicious intentions to hurt the guy until the cows come home.

He got a red.. The ref saw it for what it was.Intent,live with it and move on.

If I was a Leigh fan I would probably want to give up supporting the game too!

It's odd that your support of the game hinges on the punishment of a player sent off for foul play in a different competition to the one which your team plays in. It's not as if Wigan players regularly have any disciplinary actions downgraded, is there something more that's driving your decision?

You don't just get red for their being intent though do you? He was reckless but he didn't intentionally try to knock the bloke out.

Like I say if he gets a 3 or 4 game ban then fair enough. They can probably use numerous incidents involving some of the thugs that play for Leigh (Barlow, Acton etc) as a gage of what ban he should get. They will clearly need to take his previous clean record on to account though.

You now say “WASN'T MY OPINION, ALL MY MATES ARE WIGAN FANS IT CAME FROM THEM” The first few words mentions Wigan fans, the rest begins with “I”. Don't get me wrong you are quite welcome to your opinion, as so am I, and all I say is you are not looking to be constructive with YOUR comments, you are just showing bias in exaggerating an incident in to something of violent in its intent, when I don't think it was. “IMO”.

Keep on cherry picking, my wigan mates were correct on there opinion which[size=150 I [/sizeagreed with when[size=150 I[/size saw the replay. Judged and charged as Reckless......could be 3 matches, which will be reduced to 2 matches once the Wigan Mafia get on the case.

The imaginary friend argument, haven't seen that one before.



I get the feeling this wouldn't be talked about half as much if he wasn't wearing a Wigan top.

Ha, ha.............been a wigan resident for 38 years and represented Wigan Athletics (not football) for about 8 years. Wigan Fans are OK for banter its the Wigoons thats the problem.

Back on topic , after Mr Childs performance on Friday are you lot coming over next time we play you ? How many mini buses next time ?

Yet we made more noise then your 11000 in supporting the team only heard your lot when booing the ref and pleading for penalties until the last gasp winner you did nothing to support your team.

We did nothing...... Apart from 11,000 turning up...

And apart from deriding the ref and begging for penalties you wouldnt have known any of you were there until the 79th minute

I have been in libraries that were noisier

Well, i look forward to the Leeds fans littering our boards next, a far better class of mouth breather...

It can be difficult to generate a decent atmosphere when it's not a big game!

Usual classless response avoiding the point made, but if you think you lived up to your 19th man billing then you are imo deluded

If we're 19th then who's 18th?