I think Wigan played the conditions much better.
As an RU fan any commenting on RL games is from a position of much ignorance, but that principle doesn't stop us in most threads on this board so here goes. I thought the ref was making some odd decisions, perhaps actually trying to avoid making a difficult one. If that guy should have been sent off (for lifting the player in the first place) then Nsemba obviously should have gone for driving him into the floor. That was cowardly refereeing. Also in the first half he failed to give a yellow card for a high tackle by Wigan saying it was same as the KR one, up off the shoulder when it quite clearly wasn't.
I was surprised they didn't at least get a slapped wrist for it.Why didn't the rugby governing body penalise Wigan for unsporting like behaviour over the fielding a reserve team last week.
Like Southampton they should be kicked out
Quite right too. His mate, Nsemba, can count himself lucky, he was equally guilty imo.Wigan's Sam Walters handed huge ban after Cup final amid Harry Smith verdict
Walters was sent off against Hull KR on Saturdaywww.hulldailymail.co.uk
I think you're wrong in both cases. The high tackle has been punished retrospectively so I presume that means it should have been yellow in the game ("he has now been handed a Grade B head contact charge and that's enough to take him over the threshold for a one-game ban"). Nsemba drove a player into the ground head first, I don't see how that gets done with 'little intent'.
There wouldn’t have been a stadium if AP hadn’t bought City. FC had been signed up for over a year but nothing happened until City committed to it.
Not everything that’s punished retrospectively should have been a yellow card, that’s not how it works. Also the disciplinary points are cumulative; the points he received for this were not enough for a ban, he already had some from a previous incident.
There was no intent from either Wigan player. They were 30 points up with 5 minutes to go in a cup final. It was just a case of two players getting their body shape badly wrong at the same time and it leading to a very ugly conclusion. If anyone thinks Junior would dump a player on his head theyre wrong. He is a lovely lad, no malice in him whatsoever.
I spoke to lots of people involved in the building of the stadium and the praise for Pat Doyle was pretty much universal. My understanding, from what others said, was that he wouldn't deal with Hinchliffe and Buchanan. For which, I can't blame him. I'm always a bit saddened to see City fans denigrate what happened with the building of the stadium to some extent. We essentially had a council build a stadium fit for the Premier League while we were in League 2. You're right that it couldn't have gone ahead as it did without City's involvement, certainly on the scale that was planned, and AP coming in was the key cog in it all from the City/FC side of things, but the lack of involvement from a City perspective before that was as much down to the people running our club, from what I was told.
I believe at the time the biggest objectors to the project where the Lib Dem councillors.
I remember them being critical of it after they won leadership of the council but I don't recall what they were doing at the time. Looking through my notes, Andy Daykin (involved with the club when Hinchliffe/Buchanan were there) told me there was a meeting that he attended that both FC and KR attended as all three clubs were due to share the stadium at one point. Imagine the state of the pitch if that had happened!
Simone Butterworth, Lib Dem leader, called the proposed stadium 'a white elephant'. They won the next HCC election, and the two-faced git performed the opening ceremony of the stadium.
