Those two players missing has totally unbalanced our backline. One of them has been replaced by a player who has never played a first grade game before he came to this country.

And those opportunities we bombed still took some creating. You should probably be thankful we made so many errors or it could have been embarrassing.

thats like saying you are lucky wigan didnt win, then you would have lost.

No, it isn't. Leeds on another day could have put on a big score. Wigan didn't look like threatening much at any point.

Like they did against Huddersfield and Cas?

I very much doubt that.

The better team won on the night, but just saying that it might have been better for you had the occasional dropped pass struck is like us saying it might have been better for us had Farrell been given a penalty when the ball was stripped and most of your team was still walking back, exhausted.

Instead of trying to invent reasons why Wigan are less good than the scoreline suggested, you should expend some brain power trying to work out why you only just managed to beat so young, inexperienced and injury-stricken a team. Like it or not, that's what you did.

:s Wigan on another day could have won, all it takes is Liam Farrell keeping hold of the ball after his break and we score. You were the better team for sure but our lads showed a lot of composure to keep the score lines close and almost nick it. If we never looked threatening you wouldn't have shipped 14 points + almost another try, not forgetting our last attack of the game where we went about 80 metres.

Come the end of the season, when hopefully both sides will be full strength and in form, there won't be much to choose between us

You mean in the same way you are trying to convince yourself that the narrow scoreline means Leeds are somehow inferior pound for pound?

If you don't mean that, then I am not sure why I need to 'work out' anything. I am more than happy with the win. Looking at the game as a whole, we offered far more threat and sometimes they stick, sometimes they don't. If we had played e, then maybe I would be concerned.

Then it's lucky for Leeds that you aren't coaching them.

I'm not a coach. What a ridiculous thing to say

The current Leeds coaches are doing more than enough. Sorry if that upsets you.

Nonsense eh?