Given the conditions on Saturday Warrington should have been looking to come away from HKR’s line with points. HKR were done and Wire could have sealed the deal with drop goals.

My issue here is not with the interpretation of the laws (I agree that there will inevitably be many grey areas in the interpretation of the laws in a wide array of sports), but of the apparent misrepresentation of the laws in this instance, where it has been put forward as a matter of fact that the use of the torso to ground the ball applies only to an attacker and not a defender, but the law as written explicitly does not make that distinction. Saying that it does to justify or (if the ball was on the other foot) to impugn a decision is clearly simply wrong. The problem is that, if it is said with such authority as has happened in this instance, and without proper challenge, it ends up either becoming the truth or, at least, being accepted as such. 


Unfortunately, the forceful and quasi-authoritative dissemination of inaccuracies and untruths has become an increasingly worrying feature of society generally, led by governments and big business whose poor examples are regretfully replicated in nearly all aspects that effect our daily lives.       

Remember that time we played Halifax away and Briers kicked 5 drop goals and we still lost. Maybe if he'd kept putting it in goal to force them to do repeat sets we might have tired them out and scored 2 tries or more?

I would have liked to see drop goals, we may have got one before the pressure from defenders shut that down, but that may have opened space wide, who knows 


The ruling on the try is the only downside for me, if the ref and video ref don't know the ruling under the laws of the game, then we are in trouble. The biggest final in the sport, marred by officials not knowing the laws of the game, is unacceptable. The RFL backing the officials is as poor as it gets.


The early attempt at a tackle by Burgess on Thewlis would have resulted in a Yellow or Red card in any other game; again, poor officiating by the ref and video ref.

1986 premiership play off at central park Paul bishop banged over 5 drop goals to help demoralise Wigan so it does work..and I firmly believe a dog on Saturday would of won us the game...as Alex Murphy once said always come away with something 

I agree wholeheartedly with the first part of your post, 'to err is human' and all that, BUT for third parties including it seems the powers that be, yes there is a greater authority that Jon Wilkins, to compound matters by fudging and tinkering around the edges to back up the match day officials is unacceptable and that is why in this case "the judiciary" is getting "so much stick".