Part of the problem last night was playing three players (Green, McIlorum and Thornley) with little or no game time for the past months. They looked off the pace, Thornley in particular, but with no "A" team, U23's they can't play anywhere else, even dual reg is not an option so late in the season.

Its all about peeking at the right time who gives a about putting 60-70 pts on teams and then going out of the playoffs.Then sayin yeah but we played well against Bradford at home we put 80 pts on them.I am very confident that come playoffs we will be ready!!!

No more swapping players round or resting them please, time to pick your best 17 and stick with them Mr Wane.

Doesn't anyone remember last season?

wigans league form was terrible going into the playoffs.

We all know what happened next...

We were playing exactly like this this time last year, not saying we are going to go on and win it again but I'm not surprised at our 'form'

We had a better team last season though.

We could well end up doing what we did last season, but it's farcical that we can be so poor for so many games over the season and still be in with a shot of winning. It's little consolation for the fans who have paid hundreds of pounds for tickets and travel to the 4 or 5 away games this season where the team simply haven't turned up. The league structure doesn't help, and we have had a lot of injuries this season. But neither of those should be causing almost 20 errors and penalties and a 50% completion rate in a single game. We have been losing games because of ill discipline and turning over too much ball.

So did everybody else, with the exception of Cas...

Haha i mean fair enough being optimistic but there's a few deluded post there thinking we are going to do anything in playoffs

I am likewise born 'n' bred Wigan, now living a similar distance away.
Every game, home or away is costly, both in time and money, I reached the conclusion a long time ago that I have been getting a very poor return on " effort to reward" not just from Wigan but from RL in general.
Friday night games have long been a nightmare for anyone needing to use the motorway to get to a match, but the concept of the Thursday match is even worse as, if you have work the following day you can't stop over. With the current league structure and too many meaningless games I made the reluctant decision to select my matches this season and I wasn't at Widnes last night. I didn't need to be there to witness the effort or the lack of it described on here, I have seen it too many times in previous seasons, in fact I could have almost predicted it.
All clubs (because of the RL) are in the service of "Sky" and once again the, "exiting climax to the season" suits our puppet masters.
In the world of horseracing, most horses are ridden by jockeys "under instructions" putting in just the required amount of effort to prepare them for one of the seasons "classics"
Come the play off's you will see all 8 teams truly compete with determination, and any one of them could win, however I would be surprised if the trophy ends up anywhere other than Wigan or Leeds as they are the only real thoroughbreds in the race this year.

The performance last night was almost identical to the Bradford and HKR ones. For some reason Wigan appeared to be going too wide too soon, the forwards didn't appear to want to do the graft. It was only when Pettybourne came on that we did any damage down the middle. He was the only Wigan prop to make over 50 metres. In those conditions ball retention was paramount. www.superleague.co.uk/report/10073

The performance last night was almost identical to the Bradford and HKR ones. For some reason Wigan appeared to be going too wide too soon, the forwards didn't appear to want to do the graft. It was only when Pettybourne came on that we did any damage down the middle. He was the only Wigan prop to make over 50 metres. In those conditions ball retention was paramount. www.superleague.co.uk/report/10073

OK now its the day after and not a single comment from 1 wigan fan giving any credit to the way Widnes played the conditions or the game as a whole you will end up getting treated the same as Leeds at this rate

We had just won the cup this time last year.