It's ludicrous (and libellous) to suggest that the match was fixed by the RFL. Who are you actually saying is complicit? Nigel Woods, the referee and his assistants, the match commissioner and the entire disciplinary committee?

The decision was wrong because Hicks is a crap referee not because he's bent.

I didn't hear all this crap ref talk two weeks ago, then I suppose they were the salt of the earth

Ha, are you Hull fans this paranoid in everyday life, or just when it comes to rugby league?

Watts had his elbow slightly raised, which made contact and knocked McClorrum out, that description is clearly foul play.

You lost, get over it. Every time you lose it's the refs fault, just like the Leeds game the week before. It's very boring and childish.

Micky Mac is always dishing it out choose who they play, the only complaint I have with Watts is he didn't hit him hard enough.

so if watts had his knee slightly raised as mcillorum tackled him and watts hit him in the face because Macca mistimed his tackle then watts should be sent off for kneeing him in the face......get a grip

Bentham loaded the gun and hicks fired the bullets,Bentham messed up big style and if watts gets further punishment then the game is doomed

No, they were seriously inept in missing the foot on the dead ball line by a wigan player in the lead up to your 2nd try

Well they have to get something right every once in a while don't they?

Seriously though this thread is embarrassing. It was a bad call, that's it. No conspiracy, no corruption, just a case of the ref(s) seeing it different to how we did.

One of the things I always use as a measure in incidents like that last night is the reaction of players immediately after it's occurred. They know if foul play has taken place and they act aggressively towards the perpetrator. Watch the Wigan players, not one has a pop a Watts because they know that he didn't commit an offence.

From an outsider looking in, if that had been Bowden or Taylor and not Watts do you think the decision would have been different? I certainly do

Well im still fuming about it - The rfl is bent as that decision came from up above and not on the field

Exactly

So I suppose Hull were in on it, hence why Sneyd threw an intercept, Shaul knocked on in the dying minutes and Sneyd (again) put a poor tackle in on Gelling?

Reading some comments from Leeds and Wigan they are worried about us breaking up the "cosy" set .
Us along with Cas , are a top side who are threatening to gategrash the party . Pundits and Sky will also have to wake up to this fact .
As you saw last night , we will not die wondering in 2017.
Very proud of the lads last night, very difficult circumstances for us ,and inept officiating keep Wigan in it .

We have many poor referees in our game at the moment and they are controlled by an egomaniac who,as always, wants to be the centre of attention. This game was always going to be a fiery affair and the fault lies with whoever allocates the refs to games (presumably Ganson).
The two worst refs I think most owners, coaches players and fans would agree are Hick & Child who are both totally incompetent. We have to accept that refs will make mistakes but they are in a different league. Either Thaler, Bentham or even Hewer should have been appointed for a cruical game

Classy keyboard warrior..... Has yer mam made your brekky yet?

Where have all these Wigan fans come from. We've played them 4 times this season and yet they've only appeared on here since last night!!!

That didn't happen, as every time it's mentioned to Wigan fan they choose to ignore this, we can only talk about the clubb try which was 50/50, unlike the Marshall incident which was 100% a wrong decision which they scored off the back of.

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Heads ok thanks for the messages!
No blame to anyone it's rugby league this stuff happens, hopefully not too many more times

Still in complete shock, the games gone to rats. Shouldn't even be a discussion if it was a sending off or not, it clearly wasn't and any pundit, rugby league fan with half a brain knows it. Bit of a Stuart Fielden moment that for me, so called hard man getting to look like a complete fool, trys his hardest to put a big hit in on watts, gets it completely wrong, and Watts gets sent off , you couldn't make it up, unbelievable . We was unbelievable last night against a more or less full strength wigan, we had key players missing, down to 12 men, and still could of won. Just hope we can make that 4, Radford and the players really do deserve it

Even Rambo doesn't think it was a sending off ! Fair play to him

Well I watched it back this morning, having had to work last night and immediately said that Watts will be sent off. I'm Hull through and through but if any Wigan player had done that, we would have been at the top of our voices baying for blood. It probably doesn't help anyone form an unbiased opinion because the player involved was MM, who does a lot of grubby, cheap stuff during his stints, but without knowing the result or outcome of this incident I actually called it red and wasn't surprised it was.

Your an idiot then, please make that your first and last post! Houghton wouldn't be so stupid to run full pelt into someone's elbow with his face, and to be fair Houghton probably would of taken it anyway, hes made of tougher stuff. Any real rugby league fan would think that was not a sending off even if it was against them, I certainly wouldn't of been calling for a red card if it was the other way round, it wouldn't even crossed my mind , like it didn't last night

Tinkerman its an opinion not in accordance with yours, so please explain why that makes me an idiot, I knew what was coming, giving the recent drive on clearing up the careless head collisions. Two or three years ago may have seen a different outcome but the game has changed in that respect. Do you have any authority on here or are you just trying to belittle me because I have a different opinion? What is a real Rugby fan, because I've been a fully paid up follower of Hull for 35 years so do me a favour and calm down and then maybe grow up a tad if you can.

Well looking right across the twittersphere as far as I can see with the odd exception of one or two 'newcomers' and regular protaganists on here, some Rovers and Wigan fans, everyone is pretty much in agreement.