I haven't seen many, if any complaining in this thread that there is a conspiracy theory.   However there is something in these figures that is strange.    How do almost every team in the league have their most disciplined game when they play against us?   I don't think there is a conspiracy by the refs - but there's the possibility of unconscious bias where ref's have been criticised widely about being favourable to Wigan  - and they continue to be despite the facts saying exactly the opposite.




Although the stats on 6 again's are harder to find, the ones that are available show we also get very few 6 agains - something you would expect for a dominant team.  

In terms of 6 agains, in my mind teams are going to give them away when they're being busted, be that through clean breaks or on the back of tackle busts and they're in a bit of a panic mode and trying to slow the game down. We're second in the league for tackle busts and clean breaks however, so it's not helping on that score either. The only stats I've seen for 6 agains were in the recent games against Saints, HKR and Leeds and in those 3 games, I believe we've had 1 and conceded 9. Again, there is no issue with what we've conceded, we do try and slow the opposition down and a guy like Faz looks like he's going to have a kip in the tackle at points but to receive only 1? Come off it. 

Would the game as a whole be better if all the matches were refereed like Wigan matches are, ie far fewer penalties for both sides ?

Hard to argue when presented with stats in black and white but what I don't think helps Wigan is the antics of Marshall and to a lesser extent Miski. 


Every single time Marshall is tackled he flaps around like a salmon out of water trying to get a penalty. Refs must get fed up of this. 


NB and yes I'm not saying we are Saints (excuse the pun) in this area when Walmsley milks every play the ball. 

That?s one thing that frustrates me about Marshall, I think when players do that there?s less chance of a penalty being given.  He?s far from the only player in the league that does that though.