I thought that was a very good effort from our lads. The gulf in class between the NRL and SL is pretty big and we where on a hiding to nothing today.
The problem with our first half performance was too much lateral play and not enough go forward. When we went back to basics in the 2nd half we made yards and caused them problems.
For me all of Wigans attacking structures are based around Tomkins. Bowen is no Tomkins and looks lost in our attacking structures. Either Bowen needs to adapt to our structures or we need to take a good look at Hampshire. I'm not going to write Bowen off yet as he is a class player but the pressure will quickly build on him.
For me Wigan are still the team to beat this year. A young pack with plenty of potential a lot of squad depth and a wing centre partnership of Burgess and Sarginson which seems to be flourishing. Don't write us off yet!

Mr Wireyed, you're finally correct

By the number of posts he makes, he is clearly working on the "Infinite monkey" theorem of correctness.

I prefer stopped clock theory

So are we in agreement that the aussie's are a million times better than us as they won this year.

As opposed to when an SL team wins, then they couldn't be bothered

First of all, I'm English. And even though I follow the Roosters here. I want an English side to beat an aussie side.

What makes me laugh is that when an English side wins it "it's only a trial" but when the aussies win it they are...