Am I right in thinking big Jeff was binned for catching the ball when Barrow were trying to re-start on their 20?

Surely that was very harsh?

Harsh but sin-binning offence according to the rules unfortunately. Although, how their player didn't get binned for holding on after we made a break is beyond me.

Jobsworth refereeing at its finest. Remember at Leeds in the CC last year when we had a player binned for a late challenge on the kicker - because it was the 'rule'. How many players have you seen binned for that offence since?

Yes but the law states "Delay restart of play (i) To deliberately delay the restart of play from the goal line, 20 metre line or halfway line constitutes misconduct for the purposes of this rule."

I would argue that Lima caught the ball and helped to speed up the restart as the ball would have gone to ground otherwise. No way could he be accused of slowing the re-start.

Crazy! its just a good thing it wasn't against a big team, silly mistakes like that can cost you games

I don't think his intention was to pass the ball to the Barrow man to help speed up play or at least I hope it wasn't



I remember it happening to one of our players which is obviously at a much lower level and was the first time I'd seen it.

i've heard that as soon as he walked off the pitch radders went over to him to explain what he got binned for. seems lima is a little lax on the old rule book these days, however as this is a little more uncommon and bizarre type of event i suppose you can't blame him. at least he knows now, and also at least we easily won the game too and it wasn't the GF or something!

Thought it was fair enough myself.

Seem to remember Coley getting sin binned for something very similar a couple of seasons back.

I still think it was harsh as he didnt deliberately delay the re-start. He instinctively caught the ball and then helped it on its way. If he had booted the ball or delayed a Barrow player from getting the ball then yes sin -binning would have been the right call but he didnt delay the re-start.

It was harsh because we were hardly going to be wasting time with an easy 36-0 lead already on the board.

Daftest sin bin I've seen was Brian Carney being given a yellow for charging down a Salford goal kick attempt in pre season at Salford. Must have been for a bet but in truth it summed up the poor attitude in 2005 that led to a diabolical second half of that year.

Lack of consistency. I'd have said the professional foul was the worse offence.

I didn't know he had been sent from the field....

Some idiot was distracting me from the game..

Didn't Stacey Jones get sinbinned for a similar thing in our ill fated semi final a Warrington in 2007?

He did, but that was a deliberate attempt to stop us as we were on a roll.

The ref wanted to be noticed today IMO, a game like that barely needs a ref yet he was determined to make sure people knew he was there.

Thought the ref had a decent game personally

That still makes me chuckle.



I just assumed he'd played Union is his youth and had a rush of blood - you can charge down as soon as the kicker starts his kick in Union as far as I recall. I always remember it as a close, tough and niggly game and looking at your site confirms we were only 7-0 up after an hour when Alker scored.

I also seem to recall Coley putting in a monster hit on someone?

It's a good job it wasn't a close game. Ridiculous sin bin. Lima caught the ball because it was heading straight at him with no Barrow players in sight. If anything he was speeding up the play the ball.

The stupid thing is that; Yeah its a technicality but he caught a ball that was going nowhere near a Barrow player and gave it them back. It would have probably gone out of play and I think its a lot worse when those barrow players kept making out as if they were retrieving the ball for a scrum but then would leave it and run back making a Wigan player go get it. That WAS slowing the game down deliberately and in my opinion was worse than what Lima did just technicalities.

www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.a ... &type=news 1 st interview i ve saw Lima do , Made me laugh

www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.a ... &type=news 1 st interview i ve saw Lima do , Made me laugh

Thing is, it's pretty much an automatic 10 minutes (or at least ought to be, there's that word "consistency" again). As soon as he stepped over to catch it, I said out loud "10 minutes", and sure enough, off he went.

I would argue that he wasn't "helping the ball on it's way", as he basically dropped it on the floor after he caught it.

As for him "not knowing", I thought it was part of the international rules, so he should have known.

Lima's a total liability, discipline-wise.

He was slowly trudging back to the mark and somebody threw the ball towards him. What else could he do? Make himself invisible? He didnt exactly run to catch it lol

Very harsh to say he is a total liability.

I think he has played well in recent weeks and will be a real fans favourite. His interview was quite funny too.

I think Barrow were trying to gain the sin bin, why else pass it to one of our players? You put him in a very tricky situation.

He hasn't had a pie yet? What's the club coming to? Sack the coach!