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). 

We lost by two at Leeds with the pen count 5-1 in favour of the Rhinos and six agains 3-0 top the home team.
That's 8 sets to 1 the referee decided to award Leeds. If there had been an even split I reckon Wigan would have won. Should the sets have been 8-1 in favour of Wigan we'd have won by 14+. I do admit that refs giving any away team 8 sets to 1 at Headingly is pure fantasy. 8-1 in favour of Leeds at Headingly though is reality 

Updated Leeds' penalty conceding run.

Leeds
vs. Wakey  - 4 pens conceded
vs. Salford - 3 pens conceded
vs. Cas - 2 pens conceded
vs. Catalans - 5 pens conceded
vs. Wigan - 1 pen conceded (5 given against us)
vs. Warrington - 7 pens conceded
vs. Salford - 7 pens conceded
vs. Hudds - 6 pens conceded
vs. Hull KR - 5 pens conceded


So on average Leeds concede almost 5 penalties a game, yet somehow against us were so disciplined that they only gave away 1 penalty.


An 80% improvement from the week before, and then the next 3 games they conceded 7, 7 and 6?


Someone make it make sense.

48 tackles busts for Wigan today and 6 clean breaks, verses 29 tackle busts and 3 clean breaks for Hull. Wigan made around 400 metres more in the match and won the game by 24 points.


Penalties received-


Hull 9


Wigan 4


The mystery continues.....




Praise da lord for the six agains though! 

Out of interest NK, where did you find the penalties received figure? Are you able to update them following this weekend?s matches.

It's a pain because it's a case of totting them up from each individual fixture by looking at the player stats on the superleague sites results page.  When you do that it had us on only 18 received before yesterday but the report in the press the other day said we've had 24. Looking at yesterday, we received 4, so we're either on 22 or 28 now, dependent on which is accurate. 



Just looking at what teams got over the weekend and it leaves clubs on the following-


Catalans 59 (10 received against Wakey)
Hull FC 58 (9 received against Wigan)
Wire 51 (4 received against Saints)
Saints 49 (2 received against Wire)
HKR 49 (5 received against Leeds)
Leeds 48 (5 received against HKR)
Wigan 22 or 28 (4 received against Hull FC)- I can only see that we've had 22 but it's probably wrong. 


Safe to say Matty Peet is losing patience with it all. He ripped in a bit in his Wigan TV interview, saying that however many times he discusses it with the refs bosses, nothing changes. Talk from him of refs trying to keep our games close and how our players don't appeal and moan for penalties like some other clubs players but he did say they don't want to go down that route. He's playing the game now and trying to apply some pressure and I'm glad he is doing because he wouldn't be doing his job if he just allowed it to continue without any comment.