paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!

Which shows the real problem with Goulding - that is seemingly taboo around here - he isn't good enough, never has been.

Coulda ..Woulda..Shouda..Same old excuses..same old Dog Dirt..

Karl Pryce would have scored them but only because he is twice the size of Goulding. His size let him down with the 1 on 1's.

I agree with the earlier poster, we had plenty of chances in the second half but the final touch wasn't there. Combine that quite a few silly errors early in the tackle count every time we got in their half and we got knackered, we seemed to be praying for the hooter after the last try when Hull were chasing another one. I'm still optimistic about the season though, we just need to handle the ball better. I thought our attack was a bit one dimensional as well, we took five drives up the middle then kicked to Richards or we took four drives and passed it out to the wing.

The bottom line is that Wigan are a poorly conditioned and poorly prepared team, unfortunately.

This has been obvious for the last couple of seasons.

IL (and to the extent its a coaching issue BN) appear not to be interested in sorting things out.

Until they wake up to the issues (or the players take more responsibility for their own fitness etc) we can only expect medicocrity at best.