Quote: Father Ted "Saints played that well against us in the trial game. Trouble for them was Wigan were better than they were and miles better than Wire were last night.
That's one of the worst Wire performances I've seen ever bar perhaps the 70-0 or something at KR which got their coach the sack.
Wire are missing Morley, Hodgson, Briers, Carvell & Cooper who have almost 1700 first team games between them. They've signed Asotasi with around 240 games. That's just too much experience gone out of the first team squad. They were also missing last night Wood, Harrison and I don't recall seeing Grix either, they've got some experience between them too.
Wire's squad is very small with Currie being their number 17, Behind him there's Evans, Laithwaite, G Riley etc. no strength in depth at all.
Tony Smith has signed hardly anyone this last two or three years, nor hardly brought any Wire youth through into regular first team slots. This could be a long season for them continuing at Leeds next Friday.'"
I know some Wigan fans are reluctant to praise Saints and vice versa, but to claim that we played at the same level last night as we did in the friendly is absolutely ludicrous.
