Thaler was spot on with that decision. The fact that Gildart was behind the point at which the initial knock on occurred meant that he had effectively played himself back onside. The only onky time that this rule doesnt apply is if youre on the attacking team amd youre stood in front of the play the ball. You remain offside for that phase of play regardless of whether you get behind the ball or not. Thought Thaler had a decent game personally, Wigan were just better.

Powell should be more concerned by his players illdiscipline, thought it was really poor and one of the reasons they lost.



Saw loads on Twitter about how poor Thaler was, but thought he did OK and got most of the big decisions correct.

I wonder if another game this year will get 19 pages of comment?

The Castleford Twitter feed can really embarrassing and cringeworthy. Whoever runs it clearly failed their biology exam with regards to the human anatomy - only in Cas could you mistake a hand for an elbow

whilst watching the game, i thought cas were hard done too, but watching some incidents back, thaler wasnt that bad or made the wrong decision, especially the one right on half time, i was convinced, like others that it should've been a penalty to cas for offside, but seeing where the ball was lost then regathered nullified the knock on



to me, only the bateman incident was called wrongly





a couple of seasons ago, fc were involved in a game (against bradford or widnes, not to sure), but i remember us taking a short kick off and the ball got held up in the strong wind and it was blown back over the 10 without bouncing and we collected and it was waved play on, so i get the rule that the ball went back after it was spilled



maybe powell will be regretting some of those words today after watching the game back

Forgot about that Hull v Bradford game! Never seen it happen before, or since.

I'm glad that the talk was a good debate and didn't devolve into back biting and pettiness. Hopefully the Wire v Leeds thread can be much the same. I'm going to try and not be biased as hell when watching tonight haha.

Although Thaler made a couple of 'dubious' decisions, that didn't lose us the game. Bad discipline piggy backing Wigan up the field lost it us, and Matty Smiths kicking game was superb. It forced 3 repeat sets and Wigan had 4 more sets in the game than us. Simple! It's all set to be a belting cup tie at Wigan in a few weeks time now though

You keyboard warrior, and total prick...

Good to see Tomkins is getting treated like any other player this time around, the first time he got a ridiculous amount of protection from referees, it was laughable.



Is Gale going to cop a ban for touching the referee, ala Mitch Allgood?

and Jon Wells burst out laughing.

Would love to hear Cas fans (and Powells) thoughts on the Silverwood video ref decision against Salford a few weeks back which gave them momentum and ultimately won them the game?