I follow us home and away as I've no doubt you do as well Grimmy. I think we'll have to agree to differ. My view (and I realise I'm in the minority on here) is that Matty NEVER hides or fades into the background. He takes the ball right up to the line every time. Contrast that with Walsh at Saints. Matty's kicking is superior to anyone at the club. Providing the forwards do their job his kicking for field position is better than Williams, Hampshire, Powell or anyone else you care to name.

I'll admit that he's not perfect (who is?) but his is severely underrated by Wigan fans. I suspect he's one of those players who you miss when he's not there. He's not flashy but he does his job well. The Stand Off (Williams or Tomkins) can add the running - that's what makes a partnership. How many times do you see Thurston break the line? (I'd say Matty is a poor man's Thurston if you like) But it's not necessary, if your Stand Off can break the line.

Matty Smith worlds best number 7...

Got to give it to Smith. He messed up by kicking dead at a crucial time to hand Hull the lead but to fight back and drop two goals over should give him a lot of confidence.

It hardly handed Hull the lead. They did have 80 metres to go!!!

I assume you are referring to the grubber which went touch in goal rather than touch, resulting in a 20m restart rather than the desired 10m scrum. I think NK is referring to the kick off which went out on the full, which is a penalty of the halfway, so after the penalty kick to touch they would have had 30-40 to go with a full set. Surely you can't deny it was a big let off for them and strongly contributed to their comeback?

Having said that, impressed with Smith for nailing both drop goals and making the decision to go for them. I've been critical of him the past few weeks for not even going for the one point on offer at crucial times but he did the job twice here. Last season he tended to miss one before he got one as well but none of that on Friday. Ideally he would have kicked the touchline conversion, not given away big penalty and either put the grubber in touch or kicked the second drop goal at that point but I know he's not Thurston, or even Sinfield. He did the job well here.

My mistake, I remembered the grubber but conveniently forgot the kick off!

He seems to have added to his range doesn't he, unless there was a strong wind behind that kick. Anyway you are right, that was a bad error.

Referring to the last drop goal, he was very clever, he organised the backs to his right in plain view so that the defence weren't able to push up on him, thus keeping them honest. It gave him the chance to measure his kick instead of rushing it.