If we are lucky we may not get nilled but i doubt it

EDIT: At least weve not been nilled lol

Wayne has learned something from this thats for sure, thornley and gelling looked like reserve players

Dudson and Crosby looked OK though

Bah my feed is so jerky its too frustrating to watch !

Strange just fine for me (3 mobile)

To be honest it could well be my internet connection.

So called super fast Vigin media broadband.

Could be as i didnt have an issue earlier when you mentioned either

FT
Leigh 30
Wigan 6

Wane out!

You may well get your wish very soon.

I blame Mathers ! We are adopting the Leeds policy this year, nothing matters until September.

After watching the game at leigh think that we will struggle at 6,7 and 9 if we have injuries.

Good observation Bear, you were outplayed in that area allday, even when we had our reserves out.

Your number 7 was very good fast as well.

I thought only Greg Burke of Wigan really showed up today.
I was disappointed with Wigans starting front row of Dudson, Tomkins and Taylor, and as you say that gave the Leigh pack dominance. They also exploited the inexperience on Wigans right edge (Burgess a winger playing centre and Manfreddi)

You mentioned the Wigan 6 & 7, but I think you're being a little harsh. Powell had to pull out through injury leaving Hampshire, normally a 6 to fill in at 7 and Carberry normally a hooker or back row to fill in at 6.

Just another point have you ever seen a game where a team has not been awarded a single penalty in the match?

With regards to this 'partnership' we have with Leigh and dual registration.

Does it work both ways? i.e. If we had an injury to a first team player in a key position could we 'borrow' such a player from Leigh as cover?

With this in mind how would the Leigh fans feel if this happened? On one hand your player gets SL experience and allows him to develop, but leaves Leigh short for a number of weeks.

Their 7 had a blinder today BTW.

Tomkins is far too sluggish at dummy half. It makes it so much harder for the forwards to get any sort of momentum.

Burgess at centre seemed like a daft choice. His defence is still pretty weak and they ran rings round him, while Gelling looked uncomfortable in the back row too.

Hampshire was unfortunate that he had to do the work of two players in the halves. Carberry isn't creative enough to play hooker so putting him at stand off was just crazy. Doran, Tomkins or even Connor Farrell would have at least helped provide more creativity in the halves but instead the team had virtually no chance of creating anything. Carberry defended well, but you'd never pick him as a stand off.

Still, it's not a huge surprise that the team struggled. Leigh kept it smart but simple and waited for the youngsters to make a mistake and then exploited it.