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| Yeah we did come undone because of the composition of the bench: I still think we could just about have won after losing Joel Monaghan but once Ratchford went we were really there for the taking: too many forwards on the pitch, two key strike players gone and not enough interchange so fatigue would get to us.
Wigan had their tails up and got in to us.
I think its fair to say that whilst it was unlucky for us to get those two injuries, it did expose that we're more vulnerable than we sometimes think: take out Hodgson, Ratchford and Joel Monaghan and our try scoring threat is a lot lower.
Still I'm not as disappointed by this as I have been with other Wire experiences, this is the first time I've gone in to a Grand Final expecting to win and the first time I've gone in to half time expecting us to be champions. The fact is we are up there competing as a top side and you can't make too many decisions or inquests on what happens in a one off game: without those injuries I think we would almost certainly have won tonight and we would be posting on here about what a great team we have.
I thought Wigan were up for it tonight and showed a lot of togetherness as a team, you have to take your hat off to them it is a fantastic achievement to win the double.
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7007.jpg [quote="Badwanger":3hoggrzp]IMO, Sculthorpe at his peak was better than Hanley was at his.[/quote:3hoggrzp]
[quote="nickmanator":3hoggrzp]billy boston in todays game might pinch a spot bringin the cone on and that bein kind[/quote:3hoggrzp]
[quote="robbierotten":3hoggrzp]Imo Sam Tomkins is a very poor mans Danny Brough he is just a average player getting bigged up by the idiots who comentate on sky.[/quote:3hoggrzp]
[quote="Deano G":3hoggrzp]Jonathan Davies, who is his equal in [Super League] today?[/quote:3hoggrzp]
[quote="Badwanger":3hoggrzp]Wellens[/quote:3hoggrzp]:7007.jpg |
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| Quote: Smiffy27 "I like Sean O'Loughlin and think he's a very good player. It's your continuous sickening adulation on this board that I object to. It's the sort of adulation that little girls have for their favourite boy band. Don't you think you may have gone a bit over the top? Go somewhere else and tell the world of your great love for "Lockers". It's not really relevant here.'"
By the way, the stats are not made up by me, they collected by independent observers. As opposed to random outbursts about boybands...!! Speaking of which, presumably according to your logic Finch and Lima in the past and all the Wigan players who had been publicly expressing how important Lockers was to the team in the run up to the GF (Tomkins gave an interview in which he said Lockers was the best player at Wigan) are like 1D fan obsessives?
You even seem to object to the use of the nickname "Lockers". It's used by lots of people connected with the club, including our coach.
Oh dear... ![Laughing icon_lol.gif](images/smilies//icon_lol.gif)
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7007.jpg [quote="Badwanger":3hoggrzp]IMO, Sculthorpe at his peak was better than Hanley was at his.[/quote:3hoggrzp]
[quote="nickmanator":3hoggrzp]billy boston in todays game might pinch a spot bringin the cone on and that bein kind[/quote:3hoggrzp]
[quote="robbierotten":3hoggrzp]Imo Sam Tomkins is a very poor mans Danny Brough he is just a average player getting bigged up by the idiots who comentate on sky.[/quote:3hoggrzp]
[quote="Deano G":3hoggrzp]Jonathan Davies, who is his equal in [Super League] today?[/quote:3hoggrzp]
[quote="Badwanger":3hoggrzp]Wellens[/quote:3hoggrzp]:7007.jpg |
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| Quote: martinbuckley "Whilst injuries may have been a contributory factor, the performance of your half-back pairing was a far greater factor.
Green, mom playing with one eye, & Smith were superb. Briers & Myler were anonymous.'"
Agreed, Smith played very well and if I'm allowed to say this without being accused of "sickening adulation" ( ![Very Happy icon_biggrin.gif](images/smilies//icon_biggrin.gif) ) Green's performance was fantastic. He thoroughly deserved the Harry Sunderland trophy.
To be fair to Briers and Myler though, they were playing behind a beaten pack and they just didn't get enough ball close to Wigan's line.
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7007.jpg [quote="Badwanger":3hoggrzp]IMO, Sculthorpe at his peak was better than Hanley was at his.[/quote:3hoggrzp]
[quote="nickmanator":3hoggrzp]billy boston in todays game might pinch a spot bringin the cone on and that bein kind[/quote:3hoggrzp]
[quote="robbierotten":3hoggrzp]Imo Sam Tomkins is a very poor mans Danny Brough he is just a average player getting bigged up by the idiots who comentate on sky.[/quote:3hoggrzp]
[quote="Deano G":3hoggrzp]Jonathan Davies, who is his equal in [Super League] today?[/quote:3hoggrzp]
[quote="Badwanger":3hoggrzp]Wellens[/quote:3hoggrzp]:7007.jpg |
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| Quote: goobervision "Even at 16-2 I thought wigan were going to come back and win.'"
I wasn't that confident (!) but felt we had a chance - I was confident that the longer the game went on the stronger we would be, but a 14 point lead was a big margin!
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53838_1362327793.jpg And so you aim towards the sky,
And you'll rise high today,
Fly away, Far away,
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| From a Wire point of view, I'd say O'Loughlin is a very good player and probably the one type of player we actually lack at the club, who would make us a significantly better side - He reminds me of Mike Gregory, a player who did a lot of things very well, but, to the casual observer, wasn't particularly eye-catching because he never did the flair things like a Ellery Hanley could.... Importantly, both Gregory and O'Loughlin were/are great leaders, who are both greatly admired and appreciated by the most important people, and that's their team mates.
Personally, I'd take O'Loughlin in a heartbeat - He'd offer so much more than the present Wire set up of basically having an extra prop at loose forward, and would also take a lot of pressure of our half backs.
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