Good, old fashioned, bitterness

Latest doing the rounds is two of the senior players in the named 17 are refusing to play, so far un-named.
I really hope we can stay focussed and come through this unscathed

Farrimond named in the reserves, assume Field is playing then, seems risky but if he's been given the all clear then fair enough

Field starts, Dupree starts, Byrne 18th man, O'Neil Hill on bench everything else as you'd expect

Bewildering that we've not given at least a couple of youngsters a debut in this game. They must be wondering when they will actually get a chance?

Really sloppy start to the game here.

Anyone watching the game back on iPlayer, I urge you to watch on mute. The commentary was utterly embarrassing.

I did wonder who from Wigan upset the commentator - talk about hyper-critical, didn't think Wigan could do any right. The footage was really bad as well though - showing replays of things whilst the game was going on constantly and showing long,long, long views of the coaches (esp Rowley) during game play as well. Really amateur all round.


Game wise Wigan did what was needed some sloppy play at times and some really good play at others and at least two tries chalked off for poor decisions (although the Walters one did loook more than a touch forward).

Only watched the last half hour, was expecting a bigger scoreline but fair play to Salford they battled well and asked a few questions. Not sure how he did before this but Vaughan looked good considering it was his first game of the year, him and Sambou have shown some promising signs for next season.

Today kind of summed up our season for me so far with the exception of Vegas.


Low on energy, clunky and overplaying without respecting the ball.


Basically adequate but not anywhere near where we need to be yet.


Obviously I’d prefer for us to still be in the cup but given we are out the 2 weeks off comes at a good time for us to hopefully recharge and work on gelling those combinations which don’t quite seem to be firing. 


It’s not a matter of being good now till October but I would still like to be entertained with good quality rugby till then.

Fair play to Salford. Their lads dug in and had a good crack at us. They had us defending our line a good few times in that game and can hold their heads up. When you look at the teams sheets you would have predicted a higher score for Wigan


Peet has previously spoken about managing the season with peaks and troughs of intensity. I can only hope that we have been treating the last few weeks as a  trough, otherwise that today was very worrying. 

We had pretty much a full team out. Salford were reduced to playing half their academy. If we had applied ourselves we should have racked up a 3 digit score. Saints managed 80 and they're shight. 


If we enter the end of the season in a chase for 1st place and points difference is the decider we could end up regretting not being more ruthless today.




Smith and French have both playing below par recently. After the heights they hit in Vegas it has been disappointing to see the sloppy passes, poor choices, lack of game management etc. We've got a good break before we face Hull KR and then Saints. We really need to make those of that and get these 2 back to their best