Agree, Bentham seemded to go from one extreme to the other all way through the game.

Ref did nothing much wrong.

Truth is Wigan were smashed in the forwards. Like they were smashed in the forwards at OT.

Wane must have a screw loose if he thinks he can succeed pitting his cruiserweights up against heavies over a long season.

Wane isn't Madge, although he thinks he is a better coach. I wouldn't blame Ben Flower as he has always been aggressive but never was sent off or binned before the Grand Final so was out of character.

We haven't replaced any of the top players because of a combination of IL money saving and SW thinking he is supercoach..

The Chickens are coming home to roost

Hope you win tomorrow.

The flop is something they seem to have abolished this season. There were quite a few farcically late drop ons in the Warrington game and a several more tonight. Seems they have completely forgotten the rule exists. There was one from Corey Parker tonight that was so late the Wigan player was in the process of playing the ball and he still didn't penalise it.

Have to agree. They've lost so many good players in the last 2 or 3 years and just replaced them with kids and average players from other teams they must be way under cap which seems bizarre. Maybe it's just wane's ego getting in the way of building a winning squad

I know you are partly fishing here but i do agree with a lot of that.What i have seen of Wigan so far, if i was a fan i would be a little worried about how this season is going to pan out.

O'Loughlin is such a big miss now with Green departed and although i think Smith is decent (a little overrated by some) there really isn't much else to guide them around the park and the go forward which most of their play is built around in recent years is lacking a bit which makes them look quite predictable.Early days of course

There are some truly embarrassing comments in this thread.

The idea of the World Club Series is for Super League fans to get behind all participating English clubs against Australian opposition. How will an expanded competition become sustainable if this doesn't happen?

Instead people insist on taking petty, schoolboy jabs at a Wigan side who put in a phenomenal effort there.

No team would have been able to play great rugby on that pitch. It inevitably turned into a forward battle and Wigan struggled to make the ground Brisbane did due to smaller and younger forwards.

Very proud of them and unlike some very sad people, I will continue to cheer on other participating English teams by pulling for Saints tomorrow.

That was an awful game, in part due to the state of the field. But also Wigan has no attacking flair. The only exciting Wigan moment was when the Sydney Roosters winger-to-be broke down the left flank and interchanged passes before scoring. Brisbane missed Darius Boyd, Englishman Jumping Jack Flash Reed. and Dale Copley, and only Anthony Milford showed any attacking flair for them.

Next year we need to have an exciting attacking team from Down Under, like the Sydney Roosters, involved. We also need an exciting Super League attacking team like Morgan Escare, Scott Dureau and Todd Carney's Catalans Dragons, involved. Those two teams would better showcase rugby league than the two bores we saw tonight.

Well said. I will be cheering for Saints tomorrow.

Yeah, like you reeeeally were supporting Wire yesterday. Pull the other one.

get your own pitch then....

as for who i support, brisbane are my NRL team. so should i pick a wigan team with an ethos that i disagree with over a team i have supported since i started watching NRL?

tomorrow night i will be neutral. i like both saints and souths equally and last night i cheered for warry (i felt ill, but i did) is this ok with you?

No it's not, the idea is to try and prove that they can be an expanded version where more teams can be involved and have it be possible that all teams competing can win (probably a top 4 from each league knock out thing).......won't be no cheering on the other English sides from rival fans then if that happens.

Also people will be pulling for Saints tomorrow because they're actually playing in the WCC, Wigan and Wire just played in glorified friendlies.

yeh could hardly contain my excitement when they played St's and Cas in recent weeks

Gie it a rest man

Don't understand cheering for Aussie sides. Think it's a relatively new phenomenon.

Even if it's through gritted teeth I wanted a British win.

That said, I couldn't help chuckling at Wigan's crawpy breaks. Especially since they were being absolutely mullered at the line of scrimmage.