penalty counts : Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:48 pm  

Has anybody got any idea what the penalty count was at the Wakefield v Leigh match on Friday?

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 1:18 pm  

Not sure, but my guess is that it would be quite low. Did not notice the ref, which is how it should be

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 1:18 pm  

Poor again I wound think

penalty count : Sun Apr 05, 2009 1:23 pm  

DParky will know, but I thought, for every penalty Wakefield conceded we conceded two. It wasn,t a stop start affair though like most of our games

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 1:29 pm  

Yep, credit to the ref....he did try and let the game flow.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 1:32 pm  

As per usual the lower league team got battered for non existent lying on offences

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:35 pm  

6-5 to Wakefield.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:57 pm  

That is interesting. I have heard that Leigh have a supposed reputation for ill discipline. However, from what I can gather, when they have played the very weak sides eg. London Skolars and Lokomotiv Moscow, Leigh have done well in the penalty count. In addition, I may be wrong, but it would seem that when they have faced Super League opposition, (Salford, Wigan and Wakefield) the team has not been on the wrong end of huge penalty counts either. I must admit, that I posed the question as to what the penalty count was on Friday, very much expecting it to be pretty even and I thought it would be before a ball was even kicked. It might just be me, but don't you Leigh fans think there seems to be a definite pattern emerging against you in terms of penalty counts ie. if you are playing a team from within your own league, all of a sudden, low and behold, Leigh become the most ill disciplined team ever. I may be being too cynical on your behalf, but that just seems highly unlikely to me. Instead of giving your team constant criticism for a so called lack of discipline, look at the pattern. Surely, most of you realise that every team that Leigh play in this league are not miles better disciplined than you. Do you really think that Doncaster, for example, were only guilty of transgressing against you three times in an entire match. As Mark Aston stated, in the aftermath of the recent narrow defeat at Widnes for Sheffield, he cannot accept that Widnes were squeaky clean during that match and his players were the only guilty ones. Rugby does not work like that. Most teams employ exactly the same tactics in slowing the opposition down and so if you find yourselves constantly on the wrong end of huge penalty counts, I suggest that you are being very badly done to. You have proved yet again on Friday, that there is very little wrong with your discipline. I would like to bet however, that you will be well down on the penalty count in your next league match and will possibly have men off or in the bin again. Don't you think this is a little suspicious? I certainly do. I have seen you play and you are no different to any other team in this league in terms of discipline. Do not fall for the bull.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:06 pm  

etoile1 wrote:

That is interesting. I have heard that Leigh have a supposed reputation for ill discipline. However, from what I can gather, when they have played the very weak sides eg. London Skolars and Lokomotiv Moscow, Leigh have done well in the penalty count. In addition, I may be wrong, but it would seem that when they have faced Super League opposition, (Salford, Wigan and Wakefield) the team has not been on the wrong end of huge penalty counts either. I must admit, that I posed the question as to what the penalty count was on Friday, very much expecting it to be pretty even and I thought it would be before a ball was even kicked. It might just be me, but don't you Leigh fans think there seems to be a definite pattern emerging against you in terms of penalty counts ie. if you are playing a team from within your own league, all of a sudden, low and behold, Leigh become the most ill disciplined team ever. I may be being too cynical on your behalf, but that just seems highly unlikely to me. Instead of giving your team constant criticism for a so called lack of discipline, look at the pattern. Surely, most of you realise that every team that Leigh play in this league are not miles better disciplined than you. Do you really think that Doncaster, for example, were only guilty of transgressing against you three times in an entire match. As Mark Aston stated, in the aftermath of the recent narrow defeat at Widnes for Sheffield, he cannot accept that Widnes were squeaky clean during that match and his players were the only guilty ones. Rugby does not work like that. Most teams employ exactly the same tactics in slowing the opposition down and so if you find yourselves constantly on the wrong end of huge penalty counts, I suggest that you are being very badly done to. You have proved yet again on Friday, that there is very little wrong with your discipline. I would like to bet however, that you will be well down on the penalty count in your next league match and will possibly have men off or in the bin again. Don't you think this is a little suspicious? I certainly do. I have seen you play and you are no different to any other team in this league in terms of discipline. Do not fall for the bull.

My gripe has always been the penalties the opposition doesn't concede, rather than the ones we do. We have a tendency to go high in the tackle, but are no worse than any other team (in my opinion) for offside, holding down etc. Still, it's fascinating that refs, who have caned us away, have been good to us at home - so far!!

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:17 pm  

We tend to go high after we have been slaughtered for posession and are knackered, guess what most teams do.
We do not have a discipline problem, we do have a referee problem though, RFL instigated?? (conspiricy theorists please follow)