Been the same all season
First half we played well but once again our inability to take the chances and put points on the board cost us dearly. At 12-6 we're playing the ball under the sticks, Wigan have overloaded their left defence, we have a 5 on 3 advantage on our left and what do we do throw it right and lose a great try scoring opportunity. Again at 12-6 we then blow away a "walk in" try on our left by not giving a straight forward pass to our winger, Wigan then go upfield create an overlap and "Bobs your uncle" 12 all HT A 12 to 18pt lead at the break was blown due to our players inability to finish clear/straightforward tryscoring opportunities. Wigan on the other hand looked to be struggling for large parts of the 1st half but when the opportunity arrives clinically exploit the gaps and get points on the board to keep them in the game. 2nd half Wigan up the tempo, take the chances on offer and we start coughing up more ball, let Wigan start offloading in 3 on 1 tackles start moaning at the ref (that's not gonna gain you any favours) then more coughed up ball then we start giving away silly pens, we start losing our shape and with this along come the missed tackles and more dissent and coughed up ball. As a result Wigan then get on an even bigger roll and we begin to look a right shambles of a team not only in attack but now our defence looks as though it's disintegrating minute by minute. It happens every week against every team at different periods of the game and has ever since the season started, very much doubt we're gonna sort it soon. We've still a chance of a top 4 finish but untill our attack, discipline and ball skills are sorted then I just can't see it, at the end of the day we're just not good/clinical enough to finish top 4 never mind getting anywhere near a Grand Final. God help us if Danny Boy get's injured.
Hope they prove me wrong

Did anyone else notice the size of Ellis in the warm-up. Had to do a double-take as i thought we had acquired another prop . Stands to reason why he's not in the first 17 and as a professional needs to look after his body. Also anyone else thinking the contribution of Wood is minimal, he needs to step up to the plate, as we are very one dimensional in our attack . Personally would like to see Connor at stand-off and Wood and Leeming as hookers.

Our best games are when Wood has stepped up and bossed the game, taking first receiver from Brough and basicay running the game with Brough chiming in for special plays

He's stopped doing that and allows Brough to dominate which means it's easy for the defence to smother our attack

Tell you what that Bateman lad doesnt half have a side step on him! like faiumu! went round connor like he wasnt there... he did it in the first game of the season against us too if you remember and basically won the game for them.. good player!

id like to see connor play stand off, played well when he played there before.

he has that mongrel in him too, not a bad thing, he was the only one standing up to tautai when he put a late hit in on simpson... we have too many softies in our team as it is..

I don't think the second half was anywhere near as poor as the second half against Catalans. We got tired due to the amount work we needed to do without the ball and Wigan had the class to take advantage.

I'm disappointed as we had chances to win the game but we also played a lot better than I expected with the likes of Cudjoe, Murphy and Ferres missing and a full back making his debut.

Agree with what's been said here mostly. frustrating season but not disheartening. With a bit better game management we can be up there. Speaking of which Wigan had that down to a tee as soon as they hit the front, forcing goal line drop after goal line drop. If we're going to keep down this path of scoring the minimal amount of points we're seemingly on, this aspect of our game really needs to improve. Poor game management along with the inevitable penalty we give away in defence teams will always feel in the game with us atm

Losing Johnson early doors didn't help - played with 16 for most of the game. Even more reason to respect the ball and keep possession.

yes mentioned this before, we lost johnson very early !! which robbed taai of his impact as he had to play big minutes... like last week we lost huby and ferres, things not going out way at the moment

Difficult to blame the halves when they have so few attacking options. Compare Wigans use of dummy runners that cause the defence confusion to the Giants one man drives. The whole structure in attack needs addressing in my opinion.

i agree, think purtell is in charge of the defence, anderson attack.... thorman helps too?

we seemed to have abandoned the ellis project with brough?

Why is a standoff in charge of defence and a prop in charge of attack? Powder puff tackling and no aggression in defence and 5 drives up middle and a kick about sums us up!!!

Nice to see you are in your usual positive mood. If our tacking is so bad why do we have the best defence in the league?

In most of the games I have seen, the goal line defence has been very good, but most teams have managed 50/60 metre's up field after fielding one of Broughs kicks, We have poor line speed, we are not great on one on one tackles, and we are very poor on penalties. Having said that we are where we are . We can defend our line good enough to beat the poorer sides, but do the better sides make us pay,
You are pretty good on the stats thing I believe, it would be interesting to know where we have been good and poor in defence.

Looked pretty good today