I think its you that needs to get a grip. Featherstone have had plenty of respect on here so I dont see how you can accuse anyone of wearing cherry and white specs. The only person that could be accused of disrespecting them is you by making out it was only a close game because we were awful and by not giving Fev any credit at all as to how well they played. We werent shocking at all and have played worse than that and still beat numerous SL teams this season. Featherstone on the other hand were great and based on what I have seen this season quite a few SL clubs would have lost last night, including Hull KR who are certainly no world beaters and can often be mediocre when the going gets tough.

Did you see the state of the pitch last night? Wigans slick attack (best in the league by a street this year) was a little off in it's timing because it's hard for a finely tuned ferrari to drive through a swamp. It's a good job we can mix it up and play tough and aggressive rugby league because if we couldn't a really good Fev side would have shocked us.

They'd have beaten superleagues 9th best side last night and those teams placed below you.

Don't be soft. Anyway where 9th due to how we started the season. Very inconsistent with a silly amount of players out injured including our captain Ben Galea and last years player of the year Blake Green with a blood clot. We have Ryan O'Hara who still hasn't played a 1st team game for us. We may be currently occupying 9th but we certainly won't finish the season in 9th and are far from SL's 9th best side.

For the 1st time this year we'll have Sandercocks 1st choice side out and we can start to gauge how far the team has come.

8th best at a push maybe but it's all irrelevant they'd have beat you but then you'd have to make it that far in the first place.

Last night won't have any bearing whatsoever on next week anyway. You may come and turn us over (I doubt it mind) but come the end of the season Wigan will be challenging for trophies and HKR wont regardless of Featherstone pushing us hard last night.

Very disrespectful to suggest last night was all down to us being bad as seems to be suggested by the first post.

Suppose out scoring Catalans 4 tries to 3 and still managing to get knocked out would have meant Featherstone would have quite rightly beat us yeah.....Your reasoning is spot on pal.

Wonder where your reasoning stands when you got beat by Shuddersfield at home and we comprehensively beat them at our place?

Anyway regards 8th.....We'll see.

Catalans or Gateshead it's still the same end result...out of the cup!

Out of the play off places

9th compared to Wigans 2nd

294 points scored to Wigans 430

296 points conceded to Wigans 195

5 wins to Wigans 9 early in the year

And We have a new coach as well so your not alone in that. We've had injuries as well with Carmont, Richards, Mossop, O'Loughlin and Prescott missing a good few games and Fielden not playing at all added to having a player retire.

But Fev pushed us close simply because we were rubbish? Not a chance. They'd have beaten any of superleagues lesser lights playing like that last night.

Said this last night.....as much as they must have loved playing us last night I bet many of them would be thinking they would have rather drawn one of super leagues lesser lights last night as they would have almost certainly taken another super league scalp, and then have the glamour tie of a wigan or leeds etc to look forward to.

IMO only the top SL clubs would have beat them last night - I think they would have beaten any other team in super league with that performance other than us, Saints, Leeds, Catalan, Wire, or Huddersfield,

Bar a spell of about 15 minutes in the first half I thought we played pretty well. The majority of those lads won't have played in them conditions since they were about 13 (Sam Tomkins said that on Twitter).

Hull KR would certainly have struggled as their 15 overseas players would have thought they'd landed on a different planet.

true but the 8 or 9 locals who are playing every week for us would have been right at home!

Anyway enough of this pizzing contest, how is sam tomkins doing? he looked like he took a knock the other day, with you already missing the 2 tries pat richards always scores against us is there any chance tomkins may miss the game depriving you of his usual 3 tries also???

So let's get this right. We are the ones disrespecting Fev, but according to you, we only didn't massacre them because we were rubbish - it was not because they played well?

Are you perhaps one of the cartoon characters who were sat on the house roof the other night?

If you take Tomkins out of your team you'd struggle

With no one out of your team you'd struggle, because you're awful, innit.

we cant play our normal fast attacking game in mud........but i predict a mini heatwave by weekend, so we'll probably blow HKR off the park

No coincidence since the arrival of Tomkins you've won trophies, before then you were getting beat by "awful" teams like rovers every week with no Tomkins? ONE MAN TEAM