No evidence - of course, he didn't take the action I would have taken so how can there be evidence that it would have worked?
No indication - oh yes there was. Murphy only being one injury away from the first team, and struggling in the semi final indicates he should have been given more game time during the year. O'Loughlin Isn't a good stand off or hooker, I think pretty much everyone accepts that. Whether Powell or L.Tomkins would have done a better job I don't know, but when Leuluai and later McIllorum were unavailable, there was no question of playing either of them, because they hadn't been given any experience. The amount of batterings we handed out and the fact that league placings don't count for much indicates Wane had ample opportunity to give the lads gametime. As for the positioning of Goulding and Gelling, many will disagree but it just made sense to me, we knew Goulding was a good winger and Gelling wasn't, and we knew Gelling's first choice position was centre. I also don't believe that not one player would have improved this season if he was a great coach, but no one did.

Correct , in Wigans favour last Friday night .

We were abysmal last week because we weren't allowed to be anything else. Not many sides would have looked good under the pressure that Leeds put us under both from their superb kicking game and line speed. Prior to the Watkins breakaway try we were well on top, but once they got ahead Sinfield murdered us with the boot.

Second half we put them under pressure with good line speed as opposed to waiting for them and it paid off with a few errors but we failed to capitalise.

yes the failure to sin bin the leeds player let alone penalise him in the dying seconds of the game was clearly in Wigans favour. And before you start banging on about the non-knockon that lead to our second try and then rewind a play when the players head was taken off and missed by Silverwood. When it matters.. when it REALLY matters Leeds get the rub. They did the Week before v Catalan and IIRC they won against Wire with a late penalty in last seasons semi. All teams get favourable calls but when a season depends on a call the refs are very keen to please the rhinos

We should have been better. Their game plan worked perfectly. Wane played into their hands putting a young inexperienced FB against Sinfield.

Quality!