Sickness ravaged the camp yesterday. Half a dozen players were shouting to Huey and Ralph in the dressing room before the match.

It makes a lot of sense looking at that performance.

That would explain a lot.

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Hmm, watching on Sky and we commented that a few looked "green around the gills" from the beginning.

Do we have any evidence as such, Harry Smith put it down to "one of those days" on WiganTV.

Danger is it sounds like sour grapes, either way, Hull played well and got the best out of Walker, Sutcliffe and Trueman.

Whatever the reasons were behind that performance, I think we can just leave it behind us and it'll probably be one we look back on as actually doing us some good if anything. The side now knows they can be beaten by pretty much any side in this comp if we don't turn up with the right energy/attitude and I doubt we'll see anything like it again for the rest of the season.

On a side note, it was a very short cameo at the end from Liam Byrne but that looked like the Liam Byrne who took Catalans pack apart in Perpignan last year. He looked like a man who was not happy that he'd been given so few minutes to me and hopefully it kicks him in to gear. That Liam Byrne could be massive for us over the rest of this season.

The Liam Byrne at Catalans is memorable because it’s one of the rare occasions he has done anything of note. I hope Peet is ruthless and gets rid at the end of the season, we’ve been waiting around for him to develop but with more rule changes for tackle technique coming in I just don’t think he is worth persevering with.

One of my favourite away games. A great stadium and no queues for the bar!
As far as the game goes if that was our bad one in 2024 at least it wasn’t too costly. Every team has its ups and downs. We are lucky that we have significantly more ups than most.

He was good for a decent spell around that game but I can't sit here and say that he's ever pulled together a full season or even half a season like that and it's always been his challenge to find a level of consistency. You may we'll prove to be correct in terms of him adapting to those tackle height changes but as with any player, the club won't 'just get rid' and I'm sure he'll be here for a while yet (and rightfully so IMO) and he'll get the chance to adapt. In prop terms he's still relatively young and he has shown enough in his Wigan career to think he can get better, as most props do when they get to 25/26/27.

Might have been a bug going around the Wigan camp, but Jack Charles for Hull was blowing chunks on the pitch around the 20 minute mark as well. Very humid day

Looks like no further action re. Dupree, Harrison given two matches for Wire after his red card

Some consitency over the tip tackle week on week then

Really impressed with Charles on the day. I've seen him a couple of times and he's struggled a bit but now the side is playing better and he had a good effort from the forwards to play on the back of, he looked far more comfortable. Fingers crossed he can be a player Hull can build around for the future like KR are doing with Lewis. Also stumped if I know why Litten hasn't been playing much recently.

I'm saying Keighran wasn't banned and neither was Dupree - with a bit of tongue in cheek. I was surprised Keighran's ban was overturned TBH.

If any lifting is to be outlawed then penalise it every time, the current rule of thumb seems to be based on the outcome of the tip. O'Neil caused the player's head to hit the ground fairly hard, Keighran's caused slight contact with the ground and Dupree's was a fairly soft landing.

I'd have banned Dupree for the sheer stupidity of it! Brad O'Neill put in a tackle I'd love to still be legal, in a physical contest, during a game being played at a fast pace and he had little chance to have second thoughts. Adam Keighran just seems incapable of learning his lesson when it comes to that type of tackle (with him again nearly getting in to awkward positions at Hull on Saturday) but again it was a physical/fast paced game and you could give him some leeway. That was just madness and brainless from Dupree on Saturday, with him coming in to the tackle late and from behind and having loads of time to think that it probably wasn't the best idea. It summed up the whole sides frustration and lack of concentration.

He's struggling to nail a position down a little bit currently. He has stated he wants to be a fullback but seems to have been jumped in fullback queue by Logan Moy at Hull.
Personally I think centre is his best bet if he wants regular gametime at Hull, although he needs to sort his 1 on 1 defence out.