Re: Wigan Away - Thursday : Fri Sep 07, 2018 1:27 pm  

vastman wrote:

I don’t know the stats but is it more than anyone else? Maybe we just need to get better at it rather than stop it.

Personally I'm not bothered about anyone else i just car about what Wakey. s]Surely Chester has the authority to stop it last night there were countless needless penalties. Someones got to take charge

Re: Wigan Away - Thursday : Fri Sep 07, 2018 1:39 pm  

vastman wrote:

I don’t know the stats but is it more than anyone else? Maybe we just need to get better at it rather than stop it.

Sadly as it's a part of the game that I really don't like, to get an even playing field we need to start whinging at the ref more and flopping back down to the ground when trying to get up and play the ball impeded.
I've said all season, we are too nice and want to play to the whistle instead of doing what everyone else does and milk penalties.

It's not something I really want to see us do TBH but without it we are going to constantly end up on the wrong side of the penalty count.

Re: Wigan Away - Thursday : Fri Sep 07, 2018 3:40 pm  

vastman wrote:

I don’t know the stats but is it more than anyone else? Maybe we just need to get better at it rather than stop it.

Penalty count at HT last night was 10 - 3 in Wigan's favour. We wont win too many games with those stats.

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Re: Wigan Away - Thursday : Fri Sep 07, 2018 4:55 pm  

Ironically, according to the Super League site, we went above Wigan in the Penalties conceded league last night. We are 5th.
Saying that, there is obviously an error on the page as Salford and Hull KR are on there twice.

But as you would expect, Sts are bottom of that league but equally the other teams around them are all bottom four clubs.

The point of giving the penalty away at the worst time is just that that is the time when you are under pressure and more likely to make a mistake. None of the players is trying to give a penalty away, but they do try and slow play down and do try and try to catch up with risky plays. Those are the times when you give penalties away.

Re: Wigan Away - Thursday : Fri Sep 07, 2018 6:55 pm  

Thought it was strange we only used 16 men especially with two sinbinnings

Re: Wigan Away - Thursday : Fri Sep 07, 2018 7:43 pm  

Tricky2309 wrote:

Thought it was strange we only used 16 men especially with two sinbinnings

Yes, I thought that we had not used Arundel, but I wasn't sure.

Re: Wigan Away - Thursday : Sat Sep 08, 2018 12:16 am  

Last night was the tough game I was expecting and I’m very pleased with the win after what has been a very emotional week at Wigan.

For as long as the game has existed defences have tried to slow the play the ball down and attacks have tried to play it quickly. Every team does it and That will never change. That said you have to be smart about it and having watched the game back you pushed it too far on too many occasions resulting in the penalty count. It’s a fine line which you went the wrong side of.

Both sin bins I thought were harsh though it’s something most fans have been calling for and there, rightly is a lot of focus on dangerous contact whether unintended or not.

Re: Wigan Away - Thursday : Sat Sep 08, 2018 7:16 am  

One thing that’s gone through my head a few times these past few days, on the back of a loss where I thought things could have gone so differently if some very minor things changed in the game, is go back to the Agar era where we made the playoffs and correct me if I’m wrong; lost every game?

Currently a happy Wakefield fan!

Re: Wigan Away - Thursday : Mon Sep 10, 2018 1:09 pm  

Trainman wrote:

Last night was the tough game I was expecting and I’m very pleased with the win after what has been a very emotional week at Wigan.

For as long as the game has existed defences have tried to slow the play the ball down and attacks have tried to play it quickly. Every team does it and That will never change. That said you have to be smart about it and having watched the game back you pushed it too far on too many occasions resulting in the penalty count. It’s a fine line which you went the wrong side of.

Both sin bins I thought were harsh though it’s something most fans have been calling for and there, rightly is a lot of focus on dangerous contact whether unintended or not.

It's all part of the game slowing the ruck down, you're very good at it as a side. There's an art to it and we got pinged because we were just a bit too too slow getting clear.

Re: Wigan Away - Thursday : Mon Sep 10, 2018 1:34 pm  

wakefieldwall wrote:

It's all part of the game slowing the ruck down, you're very good at it as a side. There's an art to it and we got pinged because we were just a bit too too slow getting clear.

Or you could argue that Wigan didn't get pinged for it because we didn't make a fuss over them doing it to us by diving on the floor when trying to get up and play the ball, or by throwing arms up in exasperation at every tackle.
Either way, you have to admit that Wigan played the ref better than we did, as most sides seem to be able to do sadly.