Quote: Cruncher "I wouldn't bother. There are still people out there who believe the world is flat.'"
I get more frustrated with Wigan fans trying to stir things up for whatever reason if I'm honest.
Not sure what's hard to believe about a club with 9/10 1st team players injured already suddenly getting a Virus that affected another 10 or so plus staff.
I was there, I saw Sarginson and Tierney and how bad they looked pre game - I know Joel shouldn't have played due to a Knock but put his hand up etc.
Now whether losing 62-0 is/was acceptable is debatable and probably up to each individuals interpretation of the situation bearing in mind "We" don't know all the facts (Some know a little bit more than others however for whatever reason).
MY personal opinion is it's 90% understandable, When any team get on a roll it can be hard to stop but never mind when your down to the bare bones and then add illness to a number of the team in and it becomes conceivable to my mind this was always a possibility.
What was important to me was a number of things.
Seeing Josh (Again after announcing his departure it could easily have been a chance to throw the towel in) chase back, Knowing that a number of players put their hands up in adversity, The response the following week (And I do know how bad Bateman was at HT as someone who was in the dressing room told me).
The above makes me confident that this was a blip, it makes me confident that the team WANT to win, WANT to get out there and do their best and to a point there's not much more I can ask for than that of them.
On a different subject
I keep reading fans talking about being bored etc. with watching Wigan and the style of play.
Each to their own I guess but it seems to me that if you keep telling yourself/reading & believing these things over and over you'll start to believe them if you want to (Probably more so if your intent on proving yourself right).
Me personally I've enjoyed the start to the season.
There's been some old fashioned style grind out type performances (Catalans/Huddersfield/Hull & The best example Cas last week).
There's been the odd Pretty good performance (Leeds at home & Saints away)
The odd disappointment (Widnes & the 1st half versus Warrington)
The Big Blip (Wakey - But trying to take a positive out of it these are the days that IMO galvanise you as a club etc.)
I'm looking forward to Hudds tonight and I accept that any wins a good win - It may not be pretty for many reasons however I appreciate that grinding out the wins can often learn us more than 40/50 point wins and serve us better back end of season in the tight games (And no I'm not saying grinding out wins is a master plan done on purpose etc. - Just stating that we could very easily have been in a Leeds/Hudds/Saints situation but were not despite injury situation similar if not worse).
