i was somewhat livid that bentham didn't give a penalty to russell, i think it was 10 15 minutes from the end when he broke into their twenty riding some tackles, and 3 count them three wigan players tackled him all around the head, two slaps in the face seperately, third fella coming in to unscrew his lid.

add it to the 'Bentham missed that' list....its quite a long list.

Certain players (yes Sideshow Bob O'Loughlin looking at you) seem immune to being penalised.

Indeed, as well as that i thought the attacking the standing leg of a tackled opponant had been completely outlawed following the grand final last year? Yet it was apparent in almost every other tackle last night.

that belongs on another list: $h!thouse tactics Wigan RL 2013/14

He needs a lot of minor tweaks, that's why Wigan got rid. Not up to standard.

give over, the famous 'famed' Wigan juniors, each one more fantastic than the last?


I remember when Logan was going to be the best of the three tomkins brothers.

You must be a super Wigan fan to be in a position where the club explains its decision making rationale to you. Either that or you are quite happy to just make up nonesense!

Don't you think that the fact you had super loyal Sam in your number 1 shirt for the foreseeable coupled with cap restrictions meaning you didn't need another fullback (especially one who had a good offer to try his luck in Australia) was probably a more likely reason that matty was released?

Anyway your loss is our gain in my opinion.

Wayne's post match interview said it all. "It was a good arm wrestle on the floor", and then he grinned. I think it was Phil Clark who pointed out that Wigan's time in the tackle was often 5 seconds which was slowing down the Warrington attack. That killed us as we enjoy the quick play the ball.
Another point. When Laithwaite was taken out late, the linesman told Bentham what had happened when play was stopped for the injury. My question is why did he not come on to the field waving his flag to alert the ref, but allowed play to go on. Or perhaps he did alert Bentham through the mike but was ignored.
All said and done, without the disastrous interception we could have won, despite the injuries.
I'm just wondering why Wigan are allowed to lie on for so long, yet complain when it happens to them.
Finally, Mcollorum was determined to hurt whoever he could by foul means or fair, mostly foul.

No, I think the fact that we identified flaws in his game that our next crop of talented young fullbacks do not have, meant we decided to get rid of him asap.

Bore off so if you have this crop of talented fullbacks why the need to sign Bowen

1) Poor kicking game throughout. Too many times when

a) a long kick is required, the kick goes straight into the fullback/winger's arms without bouncing, allowing a very quick return of the ball, and
b) many "kicks for kick's sake" when near the line. We don't HAVE to kick on EVERY 5th tackle

and, more worrying

2) at times, in games we lack mental toughness, when the game stops for any period of time.
Last night, when half-time came, we just switched off. We walked out for the second half, and we looked lost. As soon as Wigan scored their first try in the second-half I thought "oh flipping heck". On their second score of that half, I knew we were beaten.

Cast your minds back 11 months to last year's GF.. Joel got injured when we had a 16 point lead. Our players just stood in their positions, gazing at the turf, meanwhile, Ratboy Tomkins was in the ear of every Wigan player, lecturing and cajoling them. I said to myself "I hope we don't concede here", and we did. As soon as Wigan got their next try, early in the second half, I knew we were done for.

Once we start to leak points, it becomes a virtual haemorrhage.

We did the same v Saints at this year's Magic weekend. We had something like a 20odd point lead, within 10-15minutes, (from memory) the gap tumbles down, and Eddie Hemmings has got his todger out. We managed to stem the flow by getting a break away try.

We need to "grow a pair" and stand up to opposition teams/adversity, when we concede 2 on the bounce.
Wigan seem to "have the number on us" in these senarios. Plus, you'd rarely see the Leeds team of a couple of years do something similar.

Come on Wire, toughen up. You are still a great team, just get a bit meaner.

Well, it must be difficult to be objective (look it up) about Russell when you have that fine up-and-coming Wigan St Pats product Matty Bowen at the back. He had a blinder didn't he? In a game where handling errors were crucial I thought it a bit of a risk by Shaun Wane to play a full back with no thumbs.

There is no way that there was any thought or fact involved in the compiling of this pathetic trolling attempt.

Made up nonesense again.

We can't complain too much about the ref, he missed the fumble by Hill just before one of our tries, plus he sin-binned the Wigan player for letting Wood thump him.

For me our let down was the insistence to play champagne rugby when we don't need to, 18-4 in front we should be looking at error free play and keeping them in their half.

Bit disappointed in Wigan continuing their plan of getting as many of our players stretchered off as possible. They are a top side, they don't need to do that.