to go 24 points behind and pull it back within 2, to me shows the spirit within the side. Wigan were at full strength, our Captain was out along with Harrison, 2 big forwards that make a lot of impact on the pitch. Also Briers who would have kicked them round the pitch. Take them 3 out of our side, we will struggle against the top teams

Sums the game up perfectly. Always going to be very tough without three top players but a couple of our guys with poor decisions and technique made it even harder. Solomonas injury is a huge blow to us.

So coming back from 22 points down, equates to lacking mental toughness? I would suggest you re-evaluate your definition.

I cannot take any pride in Saturday.

We were only a converted score from letting in 50 on our own patch....not good enough

Bar 25 mins (ish) we "stunk the house out"

Those first 5 minutes, where we had some pressure on their line, summed the game up for me. We looked devoid of ideas.
The next quarter of an hour was worse than any part of the earlier Hudds (a) game
Too many players had their poorest games in ages
We let some of Wigan's attackers "tear us a new un", each time they had the ball.

Over the years, I've took SOME pride over the epic Stains defeats, where we've gone toe-to-toe with them for 80 mins, yet been unlucky. But to take pride in a game where we've shipped in 8 tries at home...nah...count me out.

Let's stop blowing smoke up our own collective bottoms, and realise we were dominated for the majority of the game

Bradford up next...we need a convincing win. I dare say it'll do the squad's confidence the world of good.

Come on Wire.

I'm still disappointed. I said we needed a big game from 3 players to win, Monas, Myler, Hodgson. 1 played brilliant as always, 1 was extremely quiet and the other just had a stinker. I'm not blaming any individuals though. As a team, we weren't good enough on the day, simple. Proud to be a Wire, proud of the last 2 years in the cup, but not proud of Saturday's defensive efforts.

Wigan can play better than that, but not by much. In contrast, that was our worst performance, especially defensively, of 2011. So I'm not worried, there's a long way to go in the league yet and we still have our 2 leaders to come back yet. Take Tomkins and O'Loughlin out of that Wigan team and they'd struggle to beat one of the top teams.

Congrats to Wigan but in 2 weeks time I will be cheering on the Red V of Sintellins. And come the final, I'm hoping Cas lift the trophy (unlikely, but not impossible).

Maybe we can't win when it's not raining ?