One thing I should have added. In all the gloom and despair Josh Charnley is deserving of some praise for the way he chased back from the opposite side of the field and held up a Wakefield player late on in the game. It would have been so easy for him to give up. Sadly his team mates let him down as Wakefield moved the ball to their right and scored from where Charnley had come from.

Wakefield have looked a good team for a while, Brian Smith got them in great physical condition before leaving.

Putting them up against a team with a bug going through the camp wasn't going to end well.

Quote: Noel Cleal "Putting them up against a team with a bug going through the camp wasn't going to end well.'" On Thursday evening Wane said "illness will not be a factor" and "there will be no excuses from us being lethargic on Sunday" and "We’ll be fit and ready and really challenging Wakefield" www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2016-04-07-no-excuses Umm

Quote: Noel Cleal "Putting them up against a team with a bug going through the camp wasn't going to end well.'" On Thursday evening Wane said "illness will not be a factor" and "there will be no excuses from us being lethargic on Sunday" and "We’ll be fit and ready and really challenging Wakefield" www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2016-04-07-no-excuses Umm

He is indeed deserving of praise but not perhaps for the ball he appeared to dive for,missed/ball boobled over him from which the Cowboys,sorry Wakefield (it was hard to tell at that point) scored,summed the day up i suppose.

Whatever he said would not have changed the outcome, so why didn't he show a bit of style and simply say well done Wakefield and move on.
There's a few other teams in SL with as many if not more injuries and for a longer period as well, have just got on with the job in hand without having to make excuses by way of a video highlighting your deficiencies under the guise of excuses.

I'm pretty sure he does it just to give people on fans forums, who feel they have some supposed moral high ground something to whine about....

I'd argue that we did at Cas away and Catalans away last year, and Liam Farrell admitted they did during the WCS game this year.

What would have happened had Wigan refused to field a team based on medical reasons?

Has this happened before?

From the interview with Radlinski it seems we had plenty of evidence to show that players and staff were suffering from a virus, surely there is an argument to say that playing on with a virus would actually cause more damage to the health of the players?

Are there any benefits of fielding a team in these circumstances?

Alternatively I'm pretty sure he does it just to give his own people on fans forums some sort of excuse to defend the abject display of their team, ironically it's not the fans of the team what humiliated you what's taking the high ground, we knew you had injuries and were just grateful for the points. Perhaps a new trend has been set now where when a team loses it releases a video listing possible excuses as the cause

I fear that I must now have chickenpox or measles. Those self same "fans" now appear to be avoiding me again!!

Its nice to see the pig-headed arrogance doesn't stop with Mr Wane. Enjoy watching your 4-5 men 'laying on in the tackle' robots, it must be fun.

Mash come on fella you have to admit if Wigan had not had sickness going through the camp and one small training session and 8 first teasers out you would have scored 62 still past Wigan Warriors at full strength..... Have a word lad it's one game give your head a wobble