Disappointed at not winning but we shouldn't be downhearted. When a team gets on a roll it's very difficult to stop. Quick play the balls, forward runs down the middle, everyone gets sucked in and that left us short on the flanks. But how many times have we done that.... hell of a lot especially when we were champions, remember the same situation 6-7 years ago when we losing 22 nil was it, at home to Saints with 15 minutes to go having been totally outplayed all the match. We got on a roll and became unstoppable in those final 15 minutes, we finally won the match in the last minute.
Back to last night there are a couple of points not yet mentioned. The first, having gone 22-4 in front in our next attack we worked the ball to the left and tried to squeeze Ryan Hall in at the corner. We were in a good attacking position to keep in the middle and land a drop goal, that would have meant Wigan scoring 4 times which would have been unlikely. It was poor decision making. The second point is Silverwood could possibly have done us a favour with the Wigan penalty at the end. The way Wigan were attacking there's a good chance they would have got another try and a defeat would have hurt after such a dominating performance for most of the match. The important thing now is we must continue playing with the same intensity in future matches starting at KR. Attitude and approach often let us down.

Without seeing the stats I'd guess that is pretty much his season average.

2011 - Kirke's average metre/carry 7.05 (2010 - 6.09)

Game by game:
4.50
7.75
8.25
7.50
8.00
5.67
Ill
6.17

Cross at full speed? Or Cross at his full speed?

Either way I think you are a little out with this one.

The stats don't show the whole story, by far, it's just you seem to cling to them in most arguments.

Yes the stats don't show the whole story that was my point about Cross. If you look again at some of his drives he was taking the ball into collision at full speed without hesitation.

Overall our forwards stood up to be counted. I don't understand the lack of game time for Clarkson or Leuluai (Cross went off injured) unless they were injured and this may have contributed to others being tired at the end of the game. Also we had a day less to rest/prepare for the game.

In the end you could argue it was our backs passing & defensive errors that really cost us the game.