Did Wigan have some injuries? www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2016- ... istic-wane "The Warriors took to the field without ten first team players and after an illness had forced training to be cancelled this week." "I know what’s gone on. With everything combined (players injured and ill)" "When you’re in the situation we are with injuries and illness you can’t turn the ball over early" "I think they understand the situation we’re in." “We’ve ten starting players not playing" "We’ve had a major illness go through the Club this week and it has killed us." "I had players out there who really shouldn’t have played but I just didn’t have anyone else to call upon."

Did Wigan have some injuries? www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2016- ... istic-wane "The Warriors took to the field without ten first team players and after an illness had forced training to be cancelled this week." "I know what’s gone on. With everything combined (players injured and ill)" "When you’re in the situation we are with injuries and illness you can’t turn the ball over early" "I think they understand the situation we’re in." “We’ve ten starting players not playing" "We’ve had a major illness go through the Club this week and it has killed us." "I had players out there who really shouldn’t have played but I just didn’t have anyone else to call upon."

I like this one:

"I don't want to take anything away from Wakefield, let them enjoy their day and if they want to book their coaches to London, let them book them"

Keep it classy Shaun.

I saw Wigan fans leaving shortly after we scored the first tries in the 2nd half, the gates on the Western terrace were fully opened with about 27 minutes to go...

No wonder they lost if they put out a team of elves.

Please point out where you think I've gone over the top?

Isn't he just taking the urine out of us meaning we have just won our CUP Final against them hence the London trip quote, Wonder what will be in the Ref's report regarding what happen at half time allegedly.

I've never known a club in any sport like it. They are so convinced that it is simply their right to win matches and are so incapable of dealing with defeat that they have to release a video to their fans detailing their excuses.

Just shows that even with a team still capable of beating any other team once you lose the mental battle you're done.
Wakefield's turn around in confidence and from that playing great rugby with a desire to play for each other is good to see and they fully exploited any weaknesses physical or mental that Wigan had and battered them.
The thing i don't understand is if you have players that shouldn't have been out there as Wane alludes to then why risk their well-being, why not shove the less established junior 1st teamers in and ensure you give your betterplayers more time to recover?
Surely you do more damage by playing ill players in the medium to long term?
That Wigan have supposedly released a video to excuse away the defeat says it all.

Far better to be magnanimous.
I'd be saying sure we had a few injuries but we and that includes myself particularly let ourselves and our fans down but Wakefield played some fantastic rugby which exposed any weakness we had. We'll look at what went wrong, ensure the younger lads aren't disheartened because we all have being on the end of a belting and move on.

@knockersbumpMKII, the video by Radlinski explains why we had to field the ill players. We are at the full salary cap and had to request permission from the RFL to hand debuts to 2 players.

I thought by half time they had a serious case of the 5hits.

Bretherton is in the Wigan first team squad so no permission needed for him. I assume Wells was the One you mention.
Of course it wouldn't have been needed if Farrell hadn't been banned, because of his own petulance. So I have no sympathy.