Quote: Father Ted "Two things possibily contributed to the superb performance Friday night.
First was the pace at which Wigan played the game in both defence and attack.
Second was their fitness levels which were far better than the Catalans.
In defence Wigan were putting three men into each tackle almost for the full 80 minutes. This prevented Catalans from offloads out of the tackle and also made them fatigue early due to the ferocity of the tackling. The game was very even and ferocious for the first 20 and was still tight up to 30 gone. Our pack had more than stood up to the Dragons forwards and had energy left whereas the Catalans were out on their feet in the final 10 of the first half.
The game was won in the 20 mins either side of half time when the score went from 6-0 to 28-0.
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Got to agree with the comments about the defence on Friday
i said the the bloke that sits at the side of me that some of the Cats players looked out of it, with about 20 minutes of the game left
Steve Menzies looked absolutely k********, and i wouldnt mind betting felt almost 40 for the 1st time. There was another player who took a tackle during the 2nd half and you could see he was physically gone
several times we noted that the cats players were very slow back after a Wigan kick chase. i reckon on at least 3 occasions that 5-6 players were still coming back onto the 3rd tackle
