So ..... the derby

Quote: Magic Superbeetle "Sadly missed the game live due to me being dosy and agreeing to being social without realising. Stayed up to watch the extended highlights only to find despite being scheduled it was some rubbish documentary about rivalry (which will result in an angry email to sky tomorrow) - and decided to watch the half 2 replay.

All I can take away from it is I assume it was phil Clarke who edited it! For anyone wanting to watch it again, I found the commentry near unbearable. At one time I had to check the score again to make sure Wigan hadn't won by 50.

Don't understand why the wiganers are claiming the first try was forward from Flanaghan (which was the only good thing I saw him do) - didn't even look a flat pass from the tv angles, if it had been SOL it wouldn't of even been mentioned. Great to see a lot of the youngsters have great games, Thompson looked particularly impressive - did well with the last pass for wellens' try too.

Swift got exposed a couple of times tonight, but I can assume that will be rectified with him just coming back. Percival looked threatening every time he touched the ball.

Hopefully Walsh won't be long term, and we can use this as the building block for a platform for the rest of the season

Edit

I tried to watch those highlights too and was faced with those bloody sporting rivalries episodes. In the end the highlights started about 45 minutes late, which was ridiculous!
It's such a poor show as well. I don't know why they're called extended highlights, there is absolutely nothing extended about them. Don't know why they cut the highlights show down to an hour anyway, it used to be 2 hours with the last half hour being the red button show.