Not to mention Briers lodging a complaint to the match commisioner over Coley stamping on his hand after a tackle...

They certainly don't take it very well when teams stand up to them in the middle

Maybe I've missed something, but where does he say Newton was an angel?

I met Sculthorpe once and he was a lovely chap too, but on the pitch i would expect him to rip my head off.

This off the pitch defence is laughable, we judge players on how they play the game.

Sonny Knuckle was a great bloke off the pitch as well, but a 'serial killer offender" on it.

Memo to simmons; see above!

He doesn't need telling. If you haven't noticed, in our close matches it is our own execution that has been the problem: dropped ball giving them field position; a missed tackle here and there (like on the line at the DW in the final minute when two defenders clocked off); a decision borne from inexperience or panic. Those little things have yet to come off for us. But we had the game plan sussed by the time we got to the DW. Just that last five minutes of panic/errors let us down.

Goes without saying we need to match eithr Warrington or Wigan up the middle if we want to win. We could have the aussie backline playing in the V but if our forwards got rolled we'd probably still lose.

then we forgot it again. Beating Wigan isnt rocket science,

1.compete in the forwards - dont be bullied
2.close down Sam Tomkins or starve him of the ball
3.get your kicking game right
4.hope you get a good ref who stops them niggling and slowing the play the ball down.

Wigan don't do anything special they just do the basics very well and they mess about and slow you down so you cant get momentum. When they get the ball they have good dummy runners and attack with structure, when that doesnt work they rely on Ratboy's X Factor and of course the wide kick to Pat who seems about 9ft tall at times.

Pat Richards looks very sluggish since he returned from his injury. He's not the player he was and even Brian agrees on that!

I've not seen enough of him really but he hasn't shrunk and thats were he's most dangerous.

If we can get the quick PTB then roby is the man who could cut Wigan to shreds. No better player in world rugby at running from dummy half.