But they had time to do it which is why i made the point you have to dominate in the middle to earn the right to move the ball. We were hammered in the middle so never had the line speed to put them under as much defensive pressure which gave them more time to organise and get their passing going.

If we were winning the ruck we would have pressurised them more in defence which would have stopped them moving the ball as much.

Anyway we lost in the forwards and that is the problem.

i agree with this too.

and green strolled in for his try, wasnt tight enough in defence went through kopzchak and ferguson..who i still say isnt upto scratch in defence.

Wane played six props and no one understood the sense of starting with Andy Powell. He lasted 9 mins at the start and 5 at the end of the game. In those 14 mins he made 13 tackles and 3 hit ups. Powell is 6'5" around 18 st and thunders in when tackling. When he went off Scott Taylor came on and made massive metres. The Giants pack could cope with the size and pace of the Wigan forwards.
The two Giants starting props faced three Wigan starting props in that first 15 mins and couldn't cope. Eorl went off after 16 mins.
That set the stall for the rest of the game.
Following that Green and Smith ran the show on the back of a winning pack.
The Wigan ptb was very fast as the Giants were only putting 2 men into a tackle in the middle. Hudds ptb were slow as Wigan had three men in most tackles.
Get it right up front and you'll beat Hull FC.

yep! i want us to go back to having 4 out and out props! a blow not having fielden for this and mullally not really stepped up... faiumu has gone well but is only a makeshift prop.

the play of the ball was alot quicker by wigan.. but bentham wasnt giving us a thing when wigan were slowing the pth down

To be fair, Powell was taken off because he was way out of his depth, hence him only coming back on with 5 minutes left. They effectively had only 16 players.

To be fair to Andy Powell, he had a couple of massive collisions with Eorl, due to being a RL player Eorl won both collisions, but at a cost, he was not right afterwards. Shaun Wane would have been delighted to swap losing Andy Powell from the game and removing Eorl's effectiveness.