Well beaten, why? For a start all are timing was way off, passing, dummy running, and coming out of the defensive line. Our forwards may as well stayed at home. I started to wonder if SW hadn’t got them too pumped-up. It was obvious Finch was not on his usual game, and it looked like we wanted it too much, if that’s possible? We needed to just keep it simple, play out our sets, and gain better field position, just like they did! We never do well if we go behind early doors, and it’s no use picking out individuals; no one had a good game! I know we can put it right and the injured troops that are coming back must help, but the basic lesson of this must be SIMPLICITY! “simples”

did you like that post so much you decided to copy and paste it from the wigan forum?

you were well beaten... anyone with half a brain can see that.

Dominated all over the pitch and on the scoreboard...... it could have easily been 50 points.

easy victory for us without having to move into top gear.

You do get the impression that Shaun Wane is a bit like the Kevin Keegan of RL: pacing up and down the changing room, getting the players to shout slogans and AWOOOGA, beating his primate chest and telling them they're the best in the world.

Probably works for single-cell organisms like Hock, fairly limited in top-level RL though.

Nope. They just happen to be the best 2 teams, even if yesterday Wire were better than us in every single department

Agreed..... if widnes find themselves up in the top 3 or 4 over the next few seasons, they will be viewed as the main enemy again.

Wigan still have saints there or thereabouts.

I agree but,
They think the King is dead, now it's up to them to show he's not dead, he's just been sleeping!

Tony Smith must have loved Shaun Wane's outburst on Boots n' All last week when he was ranting about "I'm not having my lads bullied like last year ... it's just not going to happen again"

Smith's comments in recent days have, with a subtlety that Wane could never get his head around, intimated that he rates Wane's intelligence as highly as the rest of us.

Sorry it's a bit of a vague comment. I mean, had Wigan won yesterday they could rest players here and there and have a few weeks "rest" before the play-offs. As it stands we're not five points behind them, we're one point behind them, and they will have to win every game to keep all the advantages in the play-offs.

Excellent

I can't stop laughing today, they really do make it too easy for us sometimes.

Most of the pies lap Wane up "Oooh it'll be really tough this week! They'll be getting flogged today!".

Passion and commitment are important but are overstated. I'd rather have a properly prepared coach, who is calm and can think correctly under pressure then someone who jumps up and down. That stuff gets old really quickly and after a while will have zero impact.