Ok, I didn't pick that up

Hmm, not a good week for Mikey McGuire is it?

Do you want Richie Mathers back? Seems we're signing the current MOS for next season so he's a bit surplus...

It was a shocking defeat but one thing that is funny is how much enjoyment other teams are getting out of it. Ok we lost and yet we will still be top of the league by at leats 2 points. It was a poor performance, but we just have to get on with it. I hope we have a few more guys back next week or we could struggle again.

No, our full back just can't tackle, at least he can catch and is a dangerous attacker. Yours physically can't do anything of merit. We really missed Gleeson tonight, very shrewd swap that was.

Can't disagree with you there - Mathers plus £100k for a centre who never wanted to be at Wire in the first place, we were laughing all the way to the bank - sometimes it's a case of wrong time & place for a player and that was certainly the case with those two.

Other teams love watching Wigan lose, especially like last night for the simple reason of how many of us can remember the years of your full time professionalism & dominance of the sport & how you are "The Mighty Wigan" - that and your association with Uncle Mo. It's one of those facts like everyone likes watching Man Utd fail embarrassingly in Europe or get knocked out of the FA Cup at home by Leeds. Jealousy has much to do with it over the years I have to admit - however that doesn't make it any less funny.

Lessons learned from last night;
- Quins are a much better side now with most of their key players back as opposed to the injury hit whipping boys of earlier in the season. Credit where it is due for the second half performance.
- Players have to remain in their best position - Lockers is a top class 13 in attack / defence, but is wasted and largely ineffective at stand off.
- Bailey is no longer a functional SL centre due to his lack of pace and is in decline defensively.
- The jury is still out on whether Ainscough can ever develop an appropriate positional sense to be a good SL winger.
- Gleeson, Goulding and Coley are very underrated in terms of their overall contribution to Wigan this season, particularly in solidifying the defence and were hugely missed.
- Roberts has been a greater loss than I imagined he would be - the attack just doesn't seem anywhere near as dynamic.
- We have a really talented set of young players - but some are not physically or mentally ready to have the responsibility of a starting role in SL just yet and shouldn't be rushed.

yep.. that 100k sure came in handy for buying Ryan Atkins.