Not just Farrell, but yeah, he missed more tackles that game than the rest of the season put together. Just so unlike him.

I’m still convinced we had been on the p**s Wednesday, Thursday & Friday night. Players like Faz & Lockers missing so many tackles was strange. How can SO many players be so off colour? Unless they have thrown their toys out the pram in protest at Wane going?

According to the stats Lockers only missed 1 tackle. Farrell and Clubb missed 7 each and Powell 6. To be honest it didn't look that bad during the game, just looked as if the off loads were killing you.

It was more O'Loughlin's passing that was dreadful.

Quote newgroundb4wakey="newgroundb4wakey"According to the stats Lockers only missed 1 tackle. Farrell and Clubb missed 7 each and Powell 6. To be honest it didn't look that bad during the game, just looked as if the off loads were killing you.'" Clubb and Powell miss a high percentage normally, so that’s not too surprising, but Faz had only missed 13 tackles (from 420 tackles made) all season up till that game. www.rugby-league.com/superleague ... ayer_stats

Quote newgroundb4wakey="newgroundb4wakey"According to the stats Lockers only missed 1 tackle. Farrell and Clubb missed 7 each and Powell 6. To be honest it didn't look that bad during the game, just looked as if the off loads were killing you.'" Clubb and Powell miss a high percentage normally, so that’s not too surprising, but Faz had only missed 13 tackles (from 420 tackles made) all season up till that game. www.rugby-league.com/superleague ... ayer_stats

Maybe the video incident affected the whole squad? It could be a one-off impact if so. Or maybe players have reacted to Wane leaving. It doesn't mean the wheels have fallen off for the whole season, it could just be that it takes a couple of weeks to get back into kilter.

Perhaps....but it didn't effect Wigan at Magic??

I can't help thinking that the Joel and Sam video was the main story behind last weekend's Cup disaster.

But the video only surfaced after the game didn't it?

I don’t suppose we’ll ever know for sure. The incident was 5 weeks earlier during which time we played some decent rugby and put in our best performance of the season at Magic. I’m putting last week down to just a very bad day at the office, Warrington got us on a real off day and it coincided with them playing well. Their off load tactics worked very well and we threw nothing at them. As I say, there may be a reason behind it but we’ll probably never know. Tomorrow is a good indicator as to where we’re at and I’d say we need a win to improve the mood around the club, regardless of the performance. Ideally, we’ll put in an 80min game but I’d take a scruffy win.

Both events happened after Magic RD.