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.

I don't think we have enough players who do that sort of thing tbh but we all see things through different eyes. I don't think that will negatively impact on how many penalties we get though, in fact, it would probably increase them, as it seems to do with players across the league who like to try and play for them. 

I'd like to see some stats on which players gain the most penalties, like you see with players who are fouled most in football. That would give an indication of which types of players are getting them and which aren't and would probably lead to a better understanding of why our count is so low (or probably not going off all the other stats because none of it has stacked up so far).