There's nothing wrong with that chant whatsoever. I'm sure it spurred Sam Tomkins and co. on sooooo much . Nothing to do with their professional pride, but once they heard that chant I'm sure they thought "we'll stick it to those SouthStanders!"

We ran out of gas due in a large part to our lack of forward power and depth. We had enough chances to be out of sight by half time and we blew them. Who cares, we have demonstrated signs of a mini recovery, which could be greatly aided by the recovery of key players. Are we better than Wigan and Warrington? No. Can we turn them over on our day, definitely, and that could bring us a trophy by the end of the season with a bit of luck.

Anyway I stick by the chant... I still want the trophy back, regardless of the score tonight

Just don't you go chanting anything that the opposition may use as motivation again, ever. Not anything. Probably better just keep to quiet applause and handshakes if we manage to score. Don't cheer though. Wigan might get upset and realise they want to win afterall.

Errm, read my location please. Greater Manchester, biggest conurbation outside London !

And your players 'marching on together' is 'moving off the mark' ?

Burrows started this, and the rest of your team do it now. They get tackled, stand up, then walk forward 5 yards before playing the ball.

It's something every team, Wigan included, are doing more and more and it should be stopped. At least silverwood spotted, twice, ratboys holding the tackler down

Is Ratboy the new 'Leon Pryce' ?

No he's the new ratboy.

I blame the South Stand? Not really, I blame our inability to play for 80 minutes and to take our chances when they come.

Overall a much improved performance, but there is still a long way to go before we are silverware contenders this year.

Agreed but anyone with even a modicum of understanding of the game could see we hadnt finished them off (plenty of chances though) and that we were fading badly in the final quarter.

I fully expected them to go down that right wing and score a try to snatch a victory.

Great effort to get back and deny them the win and unfortunate to conceed a penalty right at the death.

If we hadn't Wigan would have moved the ball left and scored a winning try

The final penalty was a 3 man tackle, and it was somewhat harsh to penalise us given that they were all laid on each other.

Wigan were much faster than us for the last 10 minutes, maybe this was as a result of us not making them work as hard as we could have done if they had had to make more tackles in the first half due to our respecting possession a bit more?

"Greater Manchester"..... Lancashire town attempts to big itself up shocker!

Your just a down at heel ex mill town near Oldham. End off.

ps I did like Cyril Smith though. Excellent advert for the quality of the local pies.

As for moving of the mark, wait till Fielding gets back on the pitch and you'll see a master who can pinch 5 yards on his knees and milk a penalty!