Wayne Shaun meant to say "shot our load early both halves got owned later on"....or maybe the better team won.

Which was my point, had that been Huddersfield, Salford or Wakefield fans that had to travel on a friday night and only had 2,000 there, regardless of circumstances, the RL forums would be in meltdown by now, yet it's seemingly justified when it's fans of a big club who can't be bothered.

FWIW, in my post i also agreed that it's ludicrous to expect fans of any club to have to cross the pennines for a friday night semi final.

Quote: wrencat1873 "Very poor turn out from the Wigan "faithful". Hull appeared to have half the stadium but, there only looked to be 1500 Wigan fans. Where were they ?'" The fake letter from Lockers to let the fans leave work early obviously didn't work then. www.dailystar.co.uk/rugby-league ... per-League

Quote: wrencat1873 "Very poor turn out from the Wigan "faithful". Hull appeared to have half the stadium but, there only looked to be 1500 Wigan fans. Where were they ?'" The fake letter from Lockers to let the fans leave work early obviously didn't work then. www.dailystar.co.uk/rugby-league ... per-League

on witnessing Sean O'Loughlin's stiff arm takle that felled Wildcats forward Chris Annakin


Oh dear Shaun It looks like that treble has gone for this year pal...............Could be your job gone next as the locals are getting a bit miffed with you too

After watching the semi-final back, I can see why Wigan fans are staying away. That awful, negative style of play they are promoting is bad to watch, constantly moving off the mark, niggles in the tackle, backchatting the referee and badgering for penalties is an embarrassment to the sport.
The sooner he fecks off with his coaching manual, the better for the game all round.

niggles, backchatting, moving off the mark, all teams do these things. The issue is wigan's attack has gone completely stale. The structure that reaped such good rewards 2010 to 2013 is now, not easy to defend but very manageable for most teams in the league - they are the second lowest scorers. They have failed to adapt and evolve. They do have very committed hardworking youngsters and an excellent defence which is what has kept them in contention for the grand final, but had some of the cose games gone the other way they could just as easily be near mid table.

They have pace and skill within the team so if someone like Tony smith got hold of them they'd transform, but they stick rigidly to the systems since Maguire came.