Quote: Vectrabeast "By well enough, I meant that we were there for the taking and as well as the youngsters played they didn't or couldn't maintain it for the 80mins. whether that was us improving or you going off the boil a bit, its hard to say.
My only issue with the flak we are getting for the tackling technique is that it just seems to be a wigan thing, people arent saying that this type of technique is creeping into the game in general they are saying that it is a wigan thing, if it was as consistent as some are suggesting then we would be getting penalised off the park, which we are not. I always feel the coaches are the ones worth listening to not fans who are upset at a loss. Its no coincidence that we have had the likes of potter, Kear and co bleating about our technique from teams that we have beaten convincingly but yet you don't hear the same moaning from the likes of Smith, Brown from teams that are at the sharp end. It doesnt help that players are using the likes of twitter and fb to vent their frustration. a couple of weeks ago we had Briers moaning about 3 man tackles yet the same day in their game against saints, I counted Briers come in about 7 or 8 times as 3rd man and attack the legs!!
I thought that there was a lot of good hard tackling last night but I thought that a lot of tackles from you were borderline at best, I don't doubt that some of ours where as well but my take on it is that you lot gave more penalties than us away for high shots and had players spoken to about it. Thats my opinion and I don't necessarily expect you to agree'"
Nail on head!! Every team does it only one gets highlighted by other fans and by bill and ben on sky!
