I think on paper and when everyone is fit we have the strongest squad in the league... wane isnt getting the best out them...especially away from home. Something is wrong somewhere when it comes to away games.... every man and his dog can see it...why cant wane?

ahem...MM ..ahem

Hopefully Cats is just one (two or three) of those games every team has in a season. But at this stage in the fixtures our away form is definitely entering the squeaky bum stage, and SW’s mantra of “that performance is just unacceptable” is now becoming unacceptable.

I'm just waiting for him to start discussing putting humpty dumpty back together!

We didn't cover oourselves in glory, although I did cross for a try against Serbia (and had a perfectly fine one chalked off against France

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But how does anyone get back in on merit when there are no reserve games for them to play in?

Good work! I trust the video will be on Wigan TV shortly?



Just watched the highlights of the kids playing Cats' youngsters. Did very well against what looked like a talented side. Gabe Fell scored a couple of good tries...

The stats from the game are shocking.

Only 1 player ran for more than 100m - Sarginson, who also missed 5 tackles and made 2 errors.
We conceded 9 penalties to Catalan's 3... sure.
Sam Powell made 0 METRES... what? I know he didn't play massive minutes but that is either wrong or he was a complete waste of a shirt.
Larne Patrick, 4 carries for 21 metres and 3 missed tackles.
O'Loughlin, 4 missed tackles, an error and 3 penalties.
Charnley and Joel didn't run once from dummy half.
Matty Smith kicked 3 times all game.

Just an absolute horror show.

On the Skysports site he does say they were well and truly beaten by a better side. However he does manage to somehow also throw in ''the game is refereed differently over here, there is no doubt about that''.

I just love him for this little throw ins. Even if in the event they were beaten comprehensively out of site, he will always make sure there is a little reference somewhere towards the officiating.

That's not the point. The point was players are only re-selected when a player performs badly, hence why I highlighted it was a big ask of Bowen to put in a strong performance in one of our toughest fixtures after not playing for 9 weeks or so.

Hampshire doesn't have to improve, just wait for Bowen to make a mess and he'll be back in.

Sure, but the option would seem to be dropping players who are not playing badly, based on reputation. Charnley was quite rightly being kept out by the youngsters, for example...would you have advised dropping either of them when they were doing well?