Unfortunately i went to the game and paid good money. I don't want to sound to negative put chucking in all the young players with the exception of Taylor & Hock was not the best move by Harris. The youngsters would of been better off playing with at least 6 more first teamers and the same next week. Seemed unfair on all the kids really.

Although there were some decent performances out there i thought Liam Hood looked pretty decent as did Forster and the young Lannan when he came on.

Still looking forward to the season though not letting a friendly get me down especially with a pretty full team missing.

And the person who said there was only 30+ supporters must of been drunk because there must of been around 200-300 at least!

Harris has shown he is prepared to support his junior coaches and isn't afraid to give youth players a chance. On yesterday's evidence they are some way off but at least he knows now where our youth system is and that more hard work needs to be done. It was a shrewd ' win - win' move really in a meaningless game because nobody can accuse him of overlooking the youth setup.

I understand them giving the youth a good chance that i can have no complaints with but he should of mixed it both this game and the next. And then gone with what he thinks will be his starting team against Warrington in his last friendly. That's just my opinion i guess these games don't really matter to much unless like me yesterday you spend a small fortune watching it!

In fairness the squad for the game was announced publicly last week and nobody was forced to go.

I stupidly already paid for my train tickets!

SSDD.

I was thinking I'm looking forward to the start of the season and i am, but what I haven't missed is the bitching and grumbling.

What do people seriously expect from a pre season game?, Harris obviously wanted to blood a few youngsters and see how they coped, pretty certain more first team players will be involved next week and then a pretty much full strength outfit will play in the last friendly. We've complained for God knows how long about not being a professionally run outfit yet now we have one and a coach who seems to be going about things in the right way people still can only find negatives.

oh well a good performance against Swinton and this will all be forgotten about!
Still positive about the season ahead and some of the youngsters like i said in an earlier post did themselves no harm!

Harris' team selection yesterday was a bit strange considering dewsbury are the strongest team we play in pre-season. However most of the team we put out have either played super league or been a standout at championship level, so we shouldn't blame the youngsters because in my opinion they performed as well as some of the first teamers yesterday. Senior players should have produced more, only jay Walton looked fired up for the game. Scott Taylor was shocking.

I heard Scott Taylor had a shocking game and looked over weight. He hasnt had much game time at wigan so maybe abit rusty so he could only get better

Let's just say he wasn't at his best yesterday but for me he will be amongst the 17. I thought Forster did himself no harm yesterday!

Am I really reading some of these comments. I’m pretty certain before the game, the vast majority of the squad were looking forward to the game and wanting to impress coaches, families and supporters. Many were making their first team debuts and at 19 years of age, in their first competitive game for the club are you telling me they didn’t give 100% effort?

Sure it was a disjointed performance, strewn with errors but this is a team that has been thrown together in their first hit out of the season. We had players playing out of position against a very experienced and solid Dewsbury side. It was even Hocks first game back since July.

I am sure the experience of being involved the first team coaches and playing against a much higher quality of opponent than they are use to in front of a decent crowd will have served those lads well.

I don't think anyone is blaming them. This was a fantastic opportunity to shine and it shows the clubs investment in their development. For many of them I'm sure it didn't go as well as hoped but it's character building and I'm sure they will of learned from the experience. Today is a new day and it's back to the hard work with the added determination to improve.