Fielden, whats going on?? I never thought the day would come when I'd be happier with Prescot and Coley starting before him. Prescot was superb last night and the first 20 mins with the two of them on worked well. Hope Fielden starts from the bench next week too.
Good offload by Coley near the line which helped create the last try of the game (I think it was anyway, too much beer!)

I think them out-scoring us after those 20mins was actually credit to Salford. They drew us into an arm-wrestle, and it stopped being about scoring and started being about hitting an opposition player harder than he hit you.

It's not the first time this season that we've been concentrating on smashing people instead of scoring points (Hull KR springs to mind) and their forwards drove us into that by getting in fielden's and hock's head. There was a bit of b!tch-slapping at one of our play the balls and hock punched alker, giving them a penalty, in our half. Which is criminal to be honest.

Saints wouldn't have been drawn into that, they would have carried on scoring points and that could have been a 70 point score line tonight.

Overall I'm pleased with last night, that was the most clinical wigan side I've seen in a long time, but Salford drew us into a scrap that we never should have let ourselves been drawn into.

Where did you learn that? I'm glad we are doing something about it rather than giving Cummings another excuse next time a ref cocks up something simple!

I care about performance and the first 15 minutes yesterday was fantastic - the next 65 minutes was dross in my opinion, whether the ref gave them everything or not.

It was borderline... Pat was in play when he jumped, but his foot did touch the ground in touch on landing, but it's hard to tell whether he'd already released the ball or not.

Can't say i'm disappointed because that performance sums up our season entirely - brilliant at times yet generally sub standard.

What I am though is extremely frustrated, I and probably many others can see there is a potentially good side in there that is failing to play to its potential - what frustrates me is the fact that they appear unable of producing it consistently during one game, let alone a few on the bounce.

He had well released the ball.

I've just said on the Salford board we can't put both parts of our game together on the same day and until we do that we'll not achieve anything.

When we defend well we don't seem able to score points and vice versa when we attack well we can't defend.

That was also my view of it.

If that had been two sides i can think off that scoreline would have been alot longer i no you cant please everyone but would have good to boost our points differance.

I was told after the game that in the first half there were six pens and fourteen in the 2nd. Like it or nor we do give away some daft penalties.
Salford's first two tries came from sets following a pen.
Wigan were streets ahead on man to man ability yet at time they looked as good as us.
As soon as Salford scored their first try they became a different team.
We needed to up our game at that point but went into cruise control as the game was effectively won.

And Smith should have realised what Salford's "Tactics" were to create that type of game!

28 - 6 up and 2nd half it turns into a Niggleathon!

Who do you think created that? The team in front or the Team who's behind?

I agree Salford Should try something like that but to then Give them the right side of the penalty count seems to me more like he's trying to make it a Game rather than refereeing what he sees in front of him!