1 missed tackle cost us this game.
fair enough our silly penalty count was awful and a couple of decisions went against us but to be fair the ref was ok today.
leeds never looked like breaking our defensive line even when we were down to 12 men if wigan can cut out those silly penalties and their defence stays as solid as today we can see the days of nilling staints, leeds and warrington, leeds were clueless in attack but to their credit their defence was very good.
this is maguires 1st season in charge he is still shaping the team too many poeple expect him to work miracles,
next season we will be a real champion team
john kear made me laugh when he said farrell should have pulled out of the tackle....the guy was in mid air with no way of stopping... cue jonathon davies to correct him.....sorry john but you seem so bitter you need to move on.... or maybe its the yorkshire hatred for lancashire...... war of the roses and all that....

thoughts....

Correct me if I'm wrong but did Wigan ever look like scoring a try (barring the easy hold up of Sam Tomkins)?

1 piece of skill from Lee Smith deservedly won the game, get over it you will win a trophy again ............... one day anyway.

Farrell wasn't trying to charge down the kick (look where his arms were), therefore his only intention must have been to collide with the kicker. Given how late he was, I don't think he can have too many complaints about the outcome. Whether he could have pulled out is immaterial, he was too far off the pace to be making that type of challenge.

load of tosh, you dont need to have your arms in the air to charge a kick down....

Exactly........They always teach you to charge down the ball with your face and leave your arms at your side don't they!!!!

I know wiganers are used to getting hit in the face with balls but I thought these were of a different kind!!! Ha Ha!

Load of tosh!

errrr...technically speaking you do!

Had Farrell actually gone for the ball then although he may have given a penalty, the ref wouldnt have sinbinned him.

jump with your back to the ball....is that a charge down?....do you need your hands in the air?...I rest my case you balloons

If he wanted to hurt McGuire he wouldn't have jumped, his technique wasn't great but he was definitely trying to charge the ball down.

the rules clearly say you can charge the ball down with any part of your body but as soon as you make contact with the kicker it is a penalty....with Farrell he chose 2 jump towards mcguire so it is his own fault..reguarding the sinbin it was harsh but turning his back didn't help his cause

Urrrm no, you can make contact with the kicker as long as you were already committed to the tackle/ball charge.

Farrell leapt with his back to McGuire and hit him sideways on with his shoulder. That is what got him sin binned, he did not look as if his intention was to get the ball as he wasn't looking for the ball and didn't have his arms up (to make as big a barrier as possible to block the kick with). Had he been facing McGuire with his arms raised it may still have been a penalty (those decisions can go either way) but Farrell wouldn't have got ten minutes as his intention would clearly have been to get the ball and not the man.

Maybe Bentham could have sin binned Peacock and Senior too but I have no complaints about the binning of Farrell.