This is starting to sound like the one straw you've been able to grab at.

How can it have been 100% certainty if he had to look at it 20-odd times?

You know the rules. Unless it's a clear-cut error, the on-field decision stands.

Likewise with Vatuvei, too.

Most of our first team back and we play the best rugby since February when they last played together.

That's true although I was far more worried about Masila who's been fantastic this year. What a great chance it was yesterday for Tom Davies to play up against Vatuvai. He did everything asked of him.

Wigans back five yesterday

Sam Tomkins 169 metres
Tom Davies 180 metres
Anthony Gelling 163 metres
Oliver Gildart 157 metres
Joe Burgess 176 metres.

salford's defence was awful. I'm amazed you didn't score 50

we could have but there were 14 of them

Didn't get to the game due to holiday but watched game on tv.
Agree with most comments on MM, ST and TD in particular. I also thought that Sutton played well and appeared to play longer minutes which hopefully will continue.

The last couple of games we have played a much more uptempo game and we look more dangerous across the park. Hope we can keep it up for Friday and give Leeds a good tonking

You must have eyes like a Sh1t house rat!

I don't suppose this makes it any clearer, but this is what grounding the ball for a try is....

Couple of non-game related observations from yesterday. One bar open in the South Stand? 25 minute queue for a beer and over £4 a pint.

Secondly, at those prices - what fool thinks it's a good idea to throw it over the fans below when we score a (disallowed) try?

Yeah, it isn't getting a mention but on the whole the Salford fans reaction to the game has been pretty humble.
Humble for a reason, they know and everyone else knows that they couldn't string together any kind of useful passage of play in the 2nd half, they were crap across the park, and it wasn't down to Wigan.
I dunno if they bottled it or what but they came out flat, by the time they got their 4r5e5 in to gear it was half over and had begun to rain, there was no coming back from that.

Apart from the ones throwing bottles at the Wigan team, you mean?



Of course. They'd still have lost even if they'd been playing no one. We just happened to be in the right place at the right time to benefit from it.



Another of those fiendish Wigan plans, you see. Because rain only ever affects the opposition.

Big games are for big game teams. Cas will find this out in a few months

For me the game summed up perfectly the frustration of being a Wigan fan. We showed at times what a good side we are and how much potential is in this side then in the same game showed who naive and poor we can be.

I do think the ref was poor, however at times we were our own worst enemy giving him no option but to ping us especially the the second 20 of the first half. It did also seem that the bounce of the ball was going Salfords way too which if I am honest had me worried as it seemed like things were transpiring against us.

We showed real desire however to claw the momentum of the game back and ultimately win it relatively comfortably I felt.

It was good to see our Props lay a platform which allowed us to gain that momentum. Personally felt FPN has his best game maybe ever for us. Ran with real aggression and Sutton supported him very nicely.

MMwas outstanding in attack and defence. Gildart and Davies though were a real highlight for me. Davies is a machine so tough and hardworking and it is easy to forget Gildart is still a baby, we have a real talent on our hands there with him. To maintain his form after his injury spell is a fantastic achievement.