Very surprised to see you beat Cas tonight.
Wigan team was not vastly different to the one
that lost to Wakey and therefore my surprise.
Should SW have been more complimentary to Wakefield?
What sort of video might we expect this week?
What do you fans think is the reason for the vast improvement
In performance.
Was last Sunday just a blip and the virus video an excuse?

Nope , none of our players had a virus last week. They were all 100% fit and well, and were trounced by the best team ever to play in Superleague. Congratulations

Surprised you need to ask. The evidence of tonight would seem to suggest that flu, or whatever it was, can have a very dramatic effect.

A couple of Wakey fans have been hovering around this board all week basically trying to force us to admit that last weekend's result was nothing to do with illness and, somehow, was all down to Wakey being a vastly, vastly better team than anyone knew.

Well good luck to them, especially now. Wakey might have more talent than people thought but tonight makes it pretty clear that there was a lot more to last week than that.

My recollection is that that most of the Wakey fans who've posted here lately have been pretty level-headed. Whatever team we put out, they played well against us; it would be churlish to say otherwise, and I see they got a good result in the Cup tonight. Fair play to them, but we can forget about them now until we go to their place. Meanwhile we still look pretty good in the table.

Thought we'd just been

Correct, last week was simply a blip, currently joint top of SL and looking pretty good again.

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Have you been given advance info on the challenge cup draw? "Fair play to them, but we can forget about them now until we go to their place. '"

Yeah, OK, OK.... look, it was late at night, right?

But my point remains.

I still dont know why they didnt call the wakey game off the side was clearly off for whatever reason and if it was a medical one then thats was good enough to me to call it suspect that if it had been Cats,Leeds,Wire or saints they'd have pushed to get to it called off (under the same circumstances no sky etc),as that couldhave really been embarrasing.

I just wonder how easy it is to call a game off at short notice. Also to then reschedule that game? I suspect it's probably not as straight forward as we would imagine.

Possibly not but i wonder if it was any other sport would Wigan be under investigation for fielding a clearly understrength team?

Why should Wigan be under investigation? The club said they had been in contact with the RFL in the week leading up to the game and gave them evidence in order to get dispensation on the cap to play 2 more kids. Wigan must have had medical evidence to prove this.

I don't know whether Wigan didn't want to call the game off or the RFL wouldn't let them. I would say whoever made that decision it wasn't fair asking the players who were ill to play.

The only player who missed the game with the illness was John Bateman wasn't it?

The rest had already missed games or had got injured against Wire (Lockers). If Wigan were to be investigated for anything it would be for playing lads who didn't look well enough.

I hope next time I get flu, I get that type where in can run around for 80mims. I usually get the version where I can't get out of bed and call in sick for a week at least. The lucky buggers.

I would advise the Wakefield fans hovering our boards to get as much in as you possibly can before we play you at our place in July. By then we will have Sam T, Williams, Lockers, Manfredi, Gelling, Crosby, Farrell and Bateman all back in the team to return the good hiding you gave us. And knowing the way Waney is and how annoyed he has come across regarding the way some fans have reacted to the result and stuff written in the media about Wigan in his recent media duties I wouldn't bet against him sending his players out to return the favour with a bigger score. So enjoy it while it lasts Wakey fans your time will come in July when your challenging for sweet F.A as usual. The lads were sick as dogs and we played half of our academy against men end of story.