Father Ted wrote:Our discipline is generally ok. We lost the pen count 11-4 because we were away from home. The pen count won't be much different between the teams at Wembley. Usually we win the pen count at home and lose it away from home.
You're right to some extent, Ted, but I thought our discipline was poor yesterday. Home team advantage of double might be expected but that penalty count was almost 3 times that of the home side. We were a little sloppy and, as Peet said, lazy in our application yesterday and I think that was reflected in the discipline. Too many avoidable errors and penalties.
Zig wrote:Nobody’s mentioned the Tai tackle, Walters and Ellis got a ban for less.
Drinkwater was probably worse Zig. The disciplinary will be interesting. I'm hoping they go lenient across the board or the final could be severely impacted.
Phuzzy wrote:True Stu, but the counter argument is that a lot more of their players didn't have one eye on Wembley and also didn't have anything to lose. It was interesting that we won that game only playing for 15 mins or so and that Warrington never broke us down and could only score through kicks. If we'd been playing a mid table side, say Salford or Huddersfield, and won like yesterday I doubt anyone would have any comments other than "one eye on Wembley".
The narrative was changed because of the opponents and the young kids playing but it's not the first time a group of kids have put in a good performance. It won't have much bearing on the final.
Having said that it will definitely have a feel good factor for Wire but equally it will focus the minds of Wigan in a similar way to Hull KR a few weeks ago or, indeed, the semi final loss last year.
My main concern is more about the potential bans. We have definitely lost our kicker who is in good form and that's a blow. I hope you're right regarding Dupree but at least we have cover there. A bigger worry though is O'Neil. It was a nothing push and in other times it wouldn't warrant so much as a mention. Unfortunately we're no longer in "other times" and we've seen sanctions for this sort of incident before. Not convinced it's worthy of a ban but you just never know.
If O’Neill is banned then Musgrove will face suspension as well. Absolutely nothing in either of those tackles.
We had a new security firm on the gates this year, bit over zealous but we had a load of scrotes the last 2 seasons with smoke bombs, I got a full pat down the first 4 home games, despite being a boring looking mid 40s bloke
Phuzzy wrote:Drinkwater was probably worse Zig. The disciplinary will be interesting. I'm hoping they go lenient across the board or the final could be severely impacted.
Ok but somebody will be sat in the stands if they continue to apply the laws fairly however, I agree that it would be better for the MRP to apply some common sense. By the way, when Keighran was hit he wasn’t falling.
Zig wrote:If O’Neill is banned then Musgrove will face suspension as well. Absolutely nothing in either of those tackles.
You would hope so Zig but Williams copped a ban last week for something not too dissimilar. That said the Drinkwater high shot is not dissimilar to those Ellis and Walters were banned for too so hopefully sense will prevail.
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Big Steve wrote:Powell was holding Dupree down in the tackle, Dupree was trying to get up, he gets pulled forward and makes head contact. Nothing in it if you look at the full picture.
I don’t think Dupree will get a ban…but to suggest Powell pulled him onto his head suggests Trump levels of awareness.
Just my opinions unless it's a FACT, in which case it's a fact.
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