players tend to go 'upstairs' when tackling anyway.one aspect of rugby league is about wining the collision - players tackle chest high week in week out - feka put some good footwork on and JD got his technique wrong. it was a high tackle and nothing more - even Mr Smith must have had that view as he didnt put the incident on report, there was no major flare up between the players, and Mr Smith just had a quick chat with JD and the game continued.

tackles like that go uncarded week in week out.

youre probing one player for one incident and using it as a point of focus for your posts.....try gettin your own house in order first!

I didn't suggest he was a malicious player at all. I don't regard JD as that sort of player. I said it was calculated and selective i.e. he planned to stop Feka with a high shot in that specific tackle (do not take "calculated" to mean "malicious").

Feka doesn't step him he runs straight at him - so it wasn't the case where a player has been stepped and is "done by good footwork".

JD knew what he was doing, and knew it was worth the risk to stop him.

I commented on the incident as others have? I'm talking about the incident - so of course it is a point of focus for my posts!

And JD's tackle doesn't have anything to do with what is wrong with Wigan, our players, our coach and our work ethic. Those comments are for the plenty of other topics regarding just that.

I'm bored of Mathers threads.

Everybody and I mean EVERYBODY involved with Wigan RL thinks Mathers shouldn't be selected...Apart from those who do!!

Enough is enough.

Do you think he should play?

Maybe he's paying us to play him and we need the money. I really have no idea what Noble is thinking when he plays him.

i would say loan him out, but who in their right minds would take him?

Can we have all the JD high tackle debate in a different thread please.



Just to get the thread back on topic......

Superleague fullbacks -

Leeds - Webb or Smith
Saints - Wellens or Gidley
Catalans - Greenshields
Bradford - Platt or Sykes
Wire - Reardon or Hicks
Hull - Motu Tony or Todd Byrne
Hull KR - Briscoe or Cockayne
Wakefield - Blaymire or Martin
Huddersfield - Hodgson or Hodgson
Salford - Fitzpatrick
Celtic - Duggan
Quins - Dorn or Melling
Cas - Owen or McGoldrick

I would have all of that lot in our team before Mathers at this moment in time (yes, even Platt!).

That Duggan lad on Friday night had a pearler.
A game that Mathers could only dream of.

Quins - Chris Melling.

I agree, I'd have any of those without a doubt.

Ssssssh! I forgot to fill in the blanks for Quins but I'm sure nobody will notice.

Tbh I don't understand why after his comments about Roberts being "exceptional" at full back why he still chose to play him on the wing and go with Mathers :S

That's just asking for trouble if you ask me.

I don't think there is a single person that would want to keep Mathers. Except that 1 woman in the South Stand Bar after the game. But she clearly didn't watch the game either that or she secreetly supports Saints.