The play offs weren't private viewing where they?

Lunt

Sinfield/Burrow (they shared the hooking role didn't they? )

Higham/Monaghan

All played off the park in consecutive weeks by McIlorum who overall was Wigans best player in the play off series.

Did McIllorum play Wire off the park when we played Huddersfield, wow no wonder Mc picked him

Burrow.

Ive never seen McIlorum play anyone 'off the park'. He doesnt do anything special, he's pedestrian. Wigan have produced some great players, he's not one of them.

I've lost you?

We played Hudds, Leeds and Wire during the play offs and McIlorum outplayed his opposite number quite comfortably in each game.

I've got a secret, number 9's don't play 1 v 1 against their opposite numbers. Ssssshhhhhhhh. Don't tell anyone.

You guys wish they did, it'd be the only positional battle you'd stand a chance of winning

McIlorum had better games then the hookers for the other teams had in all our play off games. It's pretty straight forward really.

Big game player much like a lot of his Wigan colleagues.

Like the baffoon bit, if you disagree that's fine, personal insults on a forum based on opinions are not needed.
If a team wins a game it usually means that they have outplayed their opposition.
That's team wise as well as individuals.
There may have been Wire players who outplayed their Wigan opposites in the GF but Higham and Monaghan weren't amongst them.
The two Wire 9s, Lunt and Burrow came nowhere near the level of performance that McIlorum produced in the play offs and GF.
That doesn't matter a jot in the Intls as they are playing without any tactics or gameplan. The coach doesn't give them any structure not can he motivate his players.
Roby will probably do the 80 in both the semi and final if we make it. Also I hope that Burrow is in the 17 somewhere as he can always pull out a good run and dislodge the opposition defences.

How is that, only 3 playoff games had McIllorum in, all the other games not involving wigan could have had a hooking masterclass? Wigan didn't win because of McIllorum.

I never said Wigan won due to McIlorum.
Wigan won because they were the better team on the night.
McIlorum played very well and was in consideration for MOM.

If we looked back at the 1,2,3 voting we have on our board for each of the play off games I'm pretty sure he was in most peoples for each game. I know a lot of Wigan fans thought he should have been the Harry Sunderland trophy winner as well. I actually didn't but I thought he should have got it in 2010 when he was magnificent against the great Keiron Cunningham and James Roby.

It's made me smile on here over the past couple of days reading how under-rated he is by opposition fans. He is one of Wigan's best 3 players in my opinion and in a lot of other Wigan fans opinions and we watch him week in week out. We wouldn't say that if it wasn't the case because we have no reason to rate him as a more important player for us then the likes of Charnley, Green, Smith, Farrell etc which I do. Ask me now who I'd least like to lose from our squad and after Sean O'Loughlin he'd be at the top of my list.

I'm going to leave it at that anyway because there's no point keep going over it. He'll do for me and I look forward to watching him continuing to turn up in the big games for the double winning champions next year He's got a big game in Sydney to play in at the end of Feb whilst Lunt, Higham, Houghton and any other pretenders will be freezing their nuts off playing in one of superleagues 27 friendly rounds.

Higham might not be playing in a WCC but he won't be freezing his nuts off, we preseason in Aus don't you know

Ok if he's so good, what are his great strengths? Kicking? No. Speed? No. Creativity? No. Power? No. Tackling? A bit. Distribution? A bit. What am I missing that Wigan fans only can see?

A good pie for dinner and a pair of Wigan glasses obviously.

Fitness 10/10
distribution 7/10
Aggression 8/10


Mc'Illorum is a great player, Wigan would have won no trophies if you swapped him with young Logan Tomkins.

Roby to start and burrow on the bench, signed a Wigan fan.