Well Hampshire is starting at fullback tonight.

Tautai at loose and Connor Farrell on bench, according to Bilko.

Have to say I'm looking forward to seeing TT in the back row. I think he could be very dangerous out wide.

I can see a 50 point win for you guys tonight as long as you don't take your foot off the pedal

I don't think TT is really 'Wigan standard'. I was watching that Agnatius Paasi for the Titans against the Cowboys last night. Big strong Tongan, got footwork and a bit of go-forward in him, but fairly unheralded in the NRL. That's the sort of guy I'd like to see us going for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf6XBN_XygA

I don't think TT is really 'Wigan standard'. I was watching that Agnatius Paasi for the Titans against the Cowboys last night. Big strong Tongan, got footwork and a bit of go-forward in him, but fairly unheralded in the NRL. That's the sort of guy I'd like to see us going for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf6XBN_XygA

Another cracking performance from Bateman. By a mile the best young player in SL this season (if you win it at 21?).

Credit to Hull, that was an extremely admirable display and some exciting youngsters to ponder over.

I must add however, that Stevo and co failed to notice that we rested Manfredi, SOL, Bowen, Patrick, Sutton with Farrell and Sarge out injured and played 3 rookies with Burgess making his first appearance since injury. Although i agree we should (on paper at least) should have won more convincingly the Sky Sports 'experts' seemed to keep avoiding mentioning that. That was 8 changes we had ourselves :/

like i say, credit to Hull though, That was a very energetic performance.

Thank God we've got Bateman.

Lets be realistic. That was an horrendous display.

Smith is woeful without a dominant 6.

Burgess is already in Australia.


Joel is garbage.
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i'll go along with that and add that Powell will never be a hooker as long as he has a hole in his bum

Oh he was dangerous alright.

Your performance tonight. Looked like a team who expected to win comfortably and wasn't prepared for Hull to put up the fight they did.

Well, all coaches. SW included, preach, defence, defence, defence, get the opposition nilled,etc. And we did let in some soft tries tonight. But from my point of view as a fan, I'm pleased to see our attack looking better as it has in recent weeks. I feel defence can (and needs to be) worked on in training, but a fluent attack is harder to get right. But to beat the best we need both of course. As said, the Hull lads put up a spirited effort to their credit, and we ended up with an entertaining game of footy. I've mentioned before the old fella in my local, Bath fan, who's come down the pub to watch a few games this season, and he rang me at work to day to see if I was going down to watch the game, and he thoroughly enjoyed it. Still, we'll need to be much better than that to lift silverware this season, but it's all in our hands.

With the exception of Gildart all those players are much more experienced and older than they Hull equivalent. Wigan get plenty of credit and I'm sure either other club (Leeds and Saints apart) are jealous of Wigans academy. We had a hull players who did a great pick up, handed a player off and ran 90 metres to score and all the commentators did was talk about was Batemans chase back, without a mention of Shaul.

We had nothing to play for, away at the 2nd best side in SL with 12 or so players out, we also lost Lineham and Shaul during the game, had Shaul stayed on I reckon we could have won it and he was causing you problems when down to 12 men.

Very pround as a Hull fan and I hope we can emulate Wigan and Leeds model and bring success the right way.