Jake the Peg:NickyKiss:
The Wigan vs HKR and then Hull vs HKR games interested me. If you didn't know which way around it was, you would presume when HKR lost by 16, they would've given away 10 penalties and when they won by 14, they would've given away just the 3 but it was the opposite way around. You would also think a team making you back pedal, busting you open, making ground etc would make you give away more penalties but again the stats don't back that up. The below stats are what Hull FC and Wigan came up with in attack against HKR-
Hull FC
Metres-1171
Tackle Busts-26
Clean breaks-4
Penalties Received-10
Wigan
Metres-1576
Tackle busts-55
Clean breaks-5
Penalties Received-3
One game was a bad tempered local derby with 16 penalties and a sending off whereas the other was a clash against the 2 current best sides in the comp, a showpiece event where the ref was probably trying to let the game flow. According to the SL website you only conceded 5 in that game so comparatively low on both sides
Fair play to you, you've at least come back and given some opinions as to why it may be, even if we probably don't agree. You mentioned above it's not some conspiracy against Wigan and I agree, I don't think it is. What I do think is that a few factors have lead to a perfect storm in terms of us getting an unbelievably low amount of penalties.
I don't think all the talk about 'Wigan refs' has helped us and I also think a lot of talk about Wigan slowing games down has lead to there probably not being as much focus on the opposition as there should be. I don't think the Brick has the same partisan atmosphere as ground like Craven Park or Headingley either. Add in that you don't hear Peet moaning in public about refs, ala Burgess/Peters and it all combines to the fact that we're getting way fewer penalties than other sides.
