By about 8 to 12 points i reckon...............

Who was then? Bentham?

Not the best today, no one can argue with that. Thought Lynch and Kearney went ok. Olbison ran in hard when he came on. We're in need of a centre, a prop and a half back. Mystified why Addy didn't play. Walker tackled hard but he's best used in the 2nd row. I thought the officials were a joke today, not seeing blatant things and then seeing things a lot less obvious.

Briggs was a 50/50 chance of playing om Wednesday so I;m taking all the info with a pinch of salt from now on.

He may have aggravated it in training, plus they couldn't be certain until he had a scan.

I won't believe Briggs is playing until I see him on the pitch. Whenever that may be.

Indeed. Plus you don't have to be 100% fit to play. Scruton was carrying a ankle injury into todays game but managed to put in a sterling performance

By Wednesday they will have had the scan done.

Well can't be bothered to read all the other posts but I will say it was great to see a big crowd at Odsal, shame the weather wasn't better. We do have the Buzz going again.
Well we were always going to struggle without a recognised half back, but no Loose forward was always going to make it worse. Nothing creative for most of the game from us, just straight up the middle ito a strong Wigan defense. There's no point in having fast wingers if we can't get the ball to them in open space. Addy should have played and I would have gone with Southerwood. Yes he might not be ready physically but we are only talking about a few games which would do him no real harm if protected.
Whitehead was the standout again for me and Walker is a monster. Olbison looked the part when he came on. Disco and Le'Strange always looked lively. We need to step it up for the next 2 games or we will be back to where we were 2010 and the Buzz will wear off pretty quickly. Good to see the Team come out and applaud the crowd and equally good to see a lot of the Fans stay back to applaud the Team at the end of the game.
Come on Potter time to work the magic......

Really disappointed today but I suppose it was to be expected playing the champions with a side with loads of new players and no recognised half backs. Wigan's defence was awesome today and we asked very few questions of it. I thought Kearrney worked his fingers o the bone but in terms of creativity he was essentially on his own, although Diskin gave a spark when he came on.
In terms of selection I'm not sure about Hargreaves at LF. I would have liked to have seen Addy there to ffer more creativity and hi short kicking game.
I'm hoping we can Herbert back next week and I hope Addy makes the 17 to make up for no Briggs. We were a totally different team to the Cardiff one today but hopefully we'll have more spark against Crusaders.

Every time we came up with an error Wigan ruthlessly profited from the mistake. We had no shape in attack and when Wigan where expansive passing through their back line we seemed all at sea.
How Addy didn't get a game today is beyond me and in many ways I feel for Sykes as he's constantly been asked to play a role he simply cant do. I no the seasons young but I think we would have struggled to beat any team in this competition today with such a disjointed performance.
I'm pleased that some of the player contracts are only for a year because I'm willing to commit now that Sibbitt is very much the journey man that I believed him to be.