Great read lads, top laugh, eased my hangover a bit.

Err, no.

End of the day Leeds got their smacked by a bunch of kids. Live with it.

Tell me which match, them.

Exactly, in fact why didn't he just punch Williams while he was at marker so he couldn't make the next tackle...

In every tackle you will see the tackled player struggling to get the tackler off them often this includes kicking out - what McGuire did id not unique it happens in every game.

Perhaps you would like to comment on Dudson's off the ball shove on McGuire or McIlorum's shot on Peacock?

As I said before the best team won on the night - these comments are not sour grapes just genuine observations of what I saw.

I will comment, both foul play; but I'm not trying to justify foul play, you are.

I must admit came on this thread to have a bit of a giggle at all the indignation but, 'Worlds' Apart' notwithstanding (God! He's an embarrassment, isn't he? ) you guys have taken it for what it was; a young 'up for it' team doing whatever was needed to best their much more experienced and supposedly game aware counterparts. Both teams sailed close to the wind at times. For every McIlorum high shot on JP, there was Bailey's forearm to the face in the tackle, for every Dudson push off the ball on McGuire there was his petulant kick into William's chest in return. It was a good, tough game played with lots of aggression and, as posted elsewhere on this thread, Wigan just did it that little bit better. I posted after the last match that I felt the games between the two sides would be equally contested this season and that the results could go either way. From a Wigan perspective, however, it was great to see such a young side able to hold their own and more this time around. Great spectacle and here's to many more like it!

They played exactly the same two weeks ago against us yet we managed to still outplay them, although they upped the thuggery yesterday to grab the win

constant Holding down at the PTB (which again wasn't penalised until 30 mins had gone)

Third man always smashing in to torso of the ball handler

Holding down with the forearm pressed into ball handlers face on multiple occasion.( only penalised once)

and just 80 mins on niggling gamesmanship from them and expected no less from them yesterday.

Its obviously premeditated tactics, which I wouldn't be proud of if I was a wigan fan

Above was the tactics used two weeks aga.


See Cas vs Leeds for a hard fought very competitive game of RL without the need of gamesmanship and thuggery.

Yesterday's game has no place in todays RL, give me a game similar to Cas v Leeds any day of the week

theres no doubt wigan pushed the limits last night, especially at the PTB. they slowed it down to a crawl.
however in any sport players push the referee and if he is going to be weak and let things go then players will take advantage. no problem with wigan in doing this, they simply exploited it better than we did

Obviously I've not seen any of the game yet and come on here to get a relatively fair fans report on the game all these Wigan fans weren't posting on here a few weeks ago except Rogues who always comes on whatever. I respect Rogues opinion once you get past is humour so I will wait for him.However it does appear that the Burley road Oaf does have an agenda against his home City club.

Can we please stop using the word "thuggery" for some niggle and needle. It's embarassing.

Wigan did indeed have a plan to slow the ruck down. The success of that plan is to quickly get a feel for where the ref's limits are and then try to get as close to that as you can at every PTB thereafter. That's exactly what Wigan did. Is it frustrating? Of course it is. That's the idea. Nowt wrong with it though. Wigan lacked some of their key attacking players and were never going to win a fast flowing, open game. So Wane stopped it being one and made it about collisions, contact and enthusiasm. They won that battle to dictate the pace, then once they had the game they wanted, they won it.

Well done to them. There are lots of ways to win a game.