So Clubb was injured? Good job they haven't got anymore injuries then, god knows why they rested so many, massive cup game coming up i guess.

I'm not quite sure how you can 'deserve' to nill a team. They either score, or they don't.

Outstanding effort tonight, across the park. After the trip to Huddersfield, I was thinking 'here we go again' but the league really is ours for the taking this year - we look by far the best of a (mostly bad) bunch.

It's brilliant to start seeing this year the Daryl Clark we signed from Castleford. What a footballer!

Was hoping that would kick off and end up in a full on brawl.

half time Cheerleader brawls would require the stadium expansion plans to be accelerated.

I was made up to see Clubb stumble off, absolute bell end who spent most of the night trying to prove how hard he was. The tally of Wire players lost to injury in games against these dirty _ _ _ ts continues to rise.

Its called being a rugby league player, I expect them to have some aggression, would be a boring game otherwise. I don't understand the abuse he is getting, he was putting himself about with big legal shots. He wasn't pulling hair, and doing high tackles like the rest of Wigans powder puff pack.

It will be an interesting game when Wigan get their 6-7 first teamers back, could well be us versus them in the GF.

Why do commentators describe Sam Tomkins as being missing from the Wigan line up ? He's not played for the Pies for some seasons now. Brian Bevan was also missing from the Wire line up

It would be nice to have nil'ed them but Charnley was pure class for his try. I can't deny them at least 4 points for it.

The hit that Clubb put in on Lineham looked fine to me – timing was perfect, no shoulder involved and it was the sort of hit we would have been raving about if one of our forwards had done it to a Wigan player. My problem is that it was very similar to the Atkins hit on Wilkin a couple of weeks ago which was penalised and put on report – neither were penalties and inconsistency of decision making is the key issue for me.

We also have a long injury list like Wigan but I think the main difference was captured by Tony Smith when he said we had still managed to retain the majority of our first choice 17 on the pitch. I suspect out of the 10 players we have out injured at the moment, it would be Sandow, Dwyer, Dodds and Harrison (remember him?) who would probably make the first choice 17. That is fewer than Wigan are missing from the first choice 17. Nevertheless, there were some really top notch performances last night across the park irrespective of the quality of the opposition.

I love the fact Penny has almost become part of the leadership group, able to switch positions, get involved in key plays in defence and attack and he reads the game generally so well. Gidley is an unbelievable signing, a true leader and as important to us as Sinfield was to Leeds which is saying something. Enjoyed Julien’s performance, Clark’s ferocious defence and explosive attack and the way Westerman is really developing some confidence and increasing his influence as a ball player. Sims was excellent last night and an honourable mention to the back row who did 80 minutes again.

Imagine when we get the ebst player in the league back in our team.

Frightening.

Is Nicky Class from Wigans forum injured???? Usually got plenty to say about things , not herd a thing?

Where have I said there shouldn't be aggression? I didn't like the hit on Lineham and several times he resorted to dirty tactics like pushing players face down when getting up from the tackle, Clark took great exception to this. I agree with you how good a game it will be when both teams fully fit.

It was always the case that Wigan would tire quickly and as a result would lay on, hit higher and struggle to get back onside. Sadly the game was reffed by a bell end who let them lay on, hit high and be offside.

We did a fantastic job 13 v 14.

Also impressive was the couple of time we caught the ball behind our line and deliberately took the ball dead. Why struggle to make yards in your own 10 when you have the confidence to drop out and hit them again further up the field & get the mistake. We enjoyed smashing the s that much we wanted to do it some more.

What was wrong with the hit on lineham? Wasn't high, and used his arms... textbook big hit. A lot worse goes on than pushing players heads in the dirt, Sims does it constantly. Its not going to do much arm compared to twisting arms, legs etc.

the problem was the shoulder to the face, it was the morley style low arm shoulder charge, where you make it look like a tackle but your throwing your shoulder in as point of contact.

See the high tackle later on from the side on clarke, which was then adjudged as a knock on incorrectly.

He's the worst case scenario of drinking Wane's Kool-aid and going out and being hyper aggressive which is actually borderline reckless.