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| Sounds about right to me. I re-watched the 15 min version on Wigan TV yesterday, and, dammit, we scored some good tries (plus a few other very promising moves like the ones dropped by Burgess), albeit assisted by some pretty poor defence early doors from Widnes. So it's not like we showed nothing and were hopeless all match, far from it. I guess the disappointment is that our senior players either looked rusty and/or didn't have the influence they should have done. Matty Smith in particular has to bear responsibility for an anonymous and ill-disciplined second half, and as for JT, well, words fail me. But as Grimmy rightly points out, this was balanced to some extent by some cheering performances from some of the younger players/new recruits like Bateman, Sutton, and Tautai.
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[quote="Frank Zappa":1sacjrvf]Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.[/quote:1sacjrvf]
[quote="The_Enforcer":1sacjrvf]Most idiotic post ever goes to Grimmy..... The way to restart should be an arm wrestle between a designated player from each side.[/quote:1sacjrvf]: |
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| Quote: apollosghost "2010 was the last time we won our opening game and that was against the Crusaders, relax people'"
I agree with your sentiment but we won our opening game in 2013, hammering Salford 42-0
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| Quote: Grimmy "I agree with your sentiment but we won our opening game in 2013, hammering Salford 42-0'"
My bad, but we do have an awful "first up" record
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| Quote: apollosghost "
Does make you wonder what we keep doing wrong year-in-year-out. We've lost more opening games than won for the last 10 years or so.
(and Giants will not in be a good mood on Friday after today's run-out either)
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| Quote: Grimmy "I agree with your sentiment but we won our opening game in 2013, hammering Salford 42-0'"
When Wane took over from Madge he said he was going to cut out performances like that v Widnes as he felt we lost too many winnable games. I know we didn't lose the game but its exactly the kind of performance he was on about. And there have been several such games ever since Wane has been in charge, notably one against Widnes a couple of seasons ago and one at home to a very poor Bradford side as examples.
I don't think some slow start syndrome cuts it as an excuse when the coach says he wants to eradicate performances like that. In the Widnes game he had a half time team talk to sort the tactics out v 12 men but you wouldn't have thought so given the way the team played.
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[quote="Frank Zappa":1sacjrvf]Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.[/quote:1sacjrvf]
[quote="The_Enforcer":1sacjrvf]Most idiotic post ever goes to Grimmy..... The way to restart should be an arm wrestle between a designated player from each side.[/quote:1sacjrvf]: |
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| Quote: DaveO "When Wane took over from Madge he said he was going to cut out performances like that v Widnes as he felt we lost too many winnable games. I know we didn't lose the game but its exactly the kind of performance he was on about. And there have been several such games ever since Wane has been in charge, notably one against Widnes a couple of seasons ago and one at home to a very poor Bradford side as examples.
I don't think some slow start syndrome cuts it as an excuse when the coach says he wants to eradicate performances like that. In the Widnes game he had a half time team talk to sort the tactics out v 12 men but you wouldn't have thought so given the way the team played.'"
To be honest I'm pretty sure all top teams still give up shock losses. It's good that Wane has those aims but I do struggle with his arrogance sometimes. Regardless of their respective trophy hauls I wouldn't put him level with Maguire.
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