The fact there is room for loads of improvement in attack is encouraging as I would be worried if we had hit top form already how they would maintain it for the season

Thought your defence was very good, was sure we were going to score points in the last 10mins but we looked a bit lightweight and predictable, still good defence though, as for Childs he just sums up the problem in our game the same six refs have gone backwards over the last 2- 3 years useless without the screen, with the screen pass everything upstairs, no competition and the standard is dropping fast.

first 5 minutes we put some big hits in then seemed to drop off, a 5-10 minute spell when they scored we looked very shaky,not to mention knackered. after that though our defence was amazing and how they didn't score still amazes me, like has been said 3 or 4 times we shot out of the line and hammered man and ball and we had to as they usually had an overlap.
as for child, awful,simply awful. he chose to completely ignore wigan standing offside and laying on yet then decides to penalise us, and to be fair,wigan shortly afterwards with what were innocous offences.then in the last 10 minutes he decides he will penalise every minor offence he could think off to allow wigan chances to score,thankfully our defence stood firm though. just to even it up i did think we got a couple of decisions go for us,especially the one where jerry seemed to take their man out.
but saying that no matter how poor the officials were,our defence was truly outstanding today!

DEE-FENCE, DEE-FENCE, DEE-FENCE

Awesome final few minutes - last 3/4 of game defence was very, very good. As said above game hinged on Eorl and Lunty taking the field after a dodgy first quarter. Wigan are a very good outfit so to keep them scoreless for as long as we did was immense.

So proud of the team today - far from a perfect performance - but 110% commitment, passion, and determination shown by all in C&G.

They looked like they wanted to win

Biggest difference from the end of last season

Your defence was superb at the end.

I was slightly disappointed with our attack not asking enough questions of you, but I don't think you missed a single tackle in that whole passage of play.

Can't wait to see the defensive stats for this game. I doubt there will be any other team this year able to keep Wigan from scoring for the final 60 minutes of a game.

A few years ago we were known for our defense but yesterday was at another level. I read on a match report somewhere last night that in the last 67 tackles we had the ball once. That is one hell of an effort which I can't wait to see Phil Clarke elaborate on against his beloved Wigan on SKY later in the week.

Wow, the effort our lads put in today....outstanding!

I brought two new potential fans with our group today and thought we was going to be on the wrong end of a hammering. However the lads kept their heads up and tightened up defense! Some massive one on one efforts and the forwards working hard in the middle!

They found a way to win and Mr broughs conversions were spot on at very tight angles.

As for attack could be better but we played against a brilliant defensive side that wire only managed to score 17 against so let's not get on the lads to much about that!

In particular I thought our edge defence was the best it has been in a long time, Murphy should be keeping his spot on that performance.

Excellent effort from all the team yesterday, but still plenty of improvement to come; as we did make it very difficult for ourselves.

whoever has been coaching the defence this season tale a bow..back to the old giants but even better

childs is garbage but always is for us as is hicks, had the worst two last few weeks and both times been on the wrong end of the penalty count.

murphy should get a run of games now, deserves it, never lets us down.

oloughlin is a dirty player, amount of times he goes in late and high, robinson main target.

thought robinson was outshone again today by brough but thats almost always going to happen.

The day after , and on reflection, think most positive was mental strength.
10 nil down after 10 minutes, but no panic, kept to game plan , and fought back into game play by play. To me that shows the belief the players have in themselves in each other, the systems and the coach.
Also, Wigan played near perfect rugby - just 1 knock on? , and we made 4 or 5 errors in their red zone, so me thinks their still loads of potential in this team.
Couple that with no overseas marquee signings playing, and got to feel positive about the next few months.
(ps wonder which Nrl club Nathan will be linked to this wee?)

The day after and on reflection I am actually a bit cross with myself. I still have a massive beaming smile and a buzz from that win- but you know what I really shouldn't be feeling this good. We beat Wigan. It's not the first of last time we will do so. It shouldn't be such a big deal.
I'm cross that I'm feeling like we've done something special- you can bet if the scoreline was switched Wigan fans wouldn't be feeling like they'd done anything special.
We are a very good side and should be getting used to winning and beating all sides no matter who they are. So I will really stop it now.

got to say i really enjoyed that match, thought BOTH sides defence was awesome, we were superb for that last 10 but so were wigan for long spells too, that to me is what super league should be all about a fantastic game with two great teams, i know its early days but im already starting to eat my words on baloo, i didnt think he was the right man for the job, but on the evidence so far he certainly is.

Goodie you should know it needs a Prop in charge of things to get it sorted!! ;-0)