I’m not getting the negativity, we are pretty depleted at the minute and if you said to me we’d be in the challenge cup and play offs in a months time I’d grab your hand off. The bookies got it right but I thought we were big underdogs today and we managed to turn it around when Hull KR had massive momentum in the second half, we just need to play more expansive as we don’t have the side to dominate in the middle with our injuries.

While we didn't play particularly well, we also ought to note, as Willie Peters did (unlike the Sky Sports commentators), that we'd had a quick turnaround and were well-down on bodies. On top of that, HKR played very well, taking it to us for the whole of the game, and yet we were continually able to score from deep, in addition to which, if Smithy had kicked his conversions, our life would have been made a lot easier. There have to be some positives to take from that.

And ... and I'm sorry, but someone has to say this - no way on Earth was that first Ryan Hall effort a try. The way those commentators orgasmed over it was utterly pathetic. Only Tez told the truth. It was very, very dodgy.

Expansive doesn’t have to mean shipping it wide all the time. Parcell plays for us tonight and we win at a canter. 7 and 9 hold us back and have done for too long. We can all see how we need to play but when your 7 is probably not even in the top 6 halves in the league we are going to struggle in that department really, certainly until Field is back.

According to Barrie Mac we're not an expansive team.

Try telling that to Harry Smith.

It’s a crazy run we’re on without what you’d call a ‘really good goal kicker’. It’s been a decade since Pat Richards left and as much as we can say ‘recruit a kicker’ you’d have just thought naturally one would pop up from somewhere, be that a signing from outside the club or somebody coming through the academy. We’ve produced loads of good players in that time and signed loads of good ones and not had a single 80%+ kicker out of the lot.

On a side note, Steve Mascord posted a transfer story yesterday saying a new player at Catalans would be moving to a top English club next season. It is one of those stories behind a pay wall but I saw a couple of mentions saying it was us signing Adam Keighran. He’s the slowest goal kicker I think I’ve seen but he’d solve the problem (I just can’t really see the signing though unless somebody is leaving we didn’t expect).

Seemed like he’d been drinking tonight. Stumbling over names and talking absolute tosh. He said before the game and with a straight face ‘when Wigan and HKR are at their best, HKR are a better side’. I’m loving what HKR are doing but let’s not talk daft. There is absolutely no evidence that suggests that is the case.

What the hell is it with 12 men? We just seem to go to pieces and I agree with Cruncher, if that first Ryan Hall effort was a try then I'm a Dutch Man and I'm not because I was born in Newtown!

Another great example of just how much of a shambles it is sending the decision up with the prejudicial ‘try or no try’ attached to it. He didn’t get it down, as clear as day IMO but there was about a 1.3% chance he got a finger tip on it, so they give it.

Superb comeback

Also looked like a ball steal on Smithies on the set before we scored the winning try.

Let's be honest, they were trying to do the same thing with Leigh until it became embarrassingly obvious that they weren't in the same class as Wigan.

HKR's second half comeback added grist to their mill - they were popping corks they were so excited. It was worth winning just to take a leak on that pathetic bonfire.

Oh behave. I bet you was bricking it behind your TV screen when French went down after knocking on, lose him and its curtains for Wigans season.

And fwiw, we shouldn’t have been given the chance to get back in that game at 14-4, but somehow we did and should’ve held on to win. Oh well.

Well you're not wrong there.

Not sure what I enjoyed more, the stunned silence of the Hull KR fans or Clifford the Big Red Dog trying to cheer up their players.