If Maguire felt he or his team was in the right he would surely welcome the chance to defend himself wouldnt he?

Maybe he thinks the match on Saturday is the best way to do it, rather than reply to childish name calling.

Defend himself against what?

It's really got to you, hasn't it, this unwillingness of Wigan to get involved in tit-for-tat arguments?

One of your lot made some comment on the other message board that Wigan aren't used to this big game pressure. All I can say is that it's currently Leeds who are behaving as if they're new to all this.

there is a big gap to disagreeing or defending himself and his team against the accusations and childish name calling.

Not in the case there isn't.

Maybe he is using the chatter from McClennan and Peacock as motivation for his players and doesn't want them to vent any of the aggression by spouting off in the press? Alternatively maybe he thinks that he doesn't have to defend them - in the same way that McClennan doesn't feel he needs to apologise for insinuating that Tommy L injured McGuire in back play in his post-match comments to Sky?

Maybe he thinks that by shutting out the press he is instilling a siege mentality in the Wigan dressing room - rather than having his players cry to any passing journalist they can find?

Maybe, just maybe he recognises the comments of McClennan and Peacock as the pathetic efforts to put his team off that they are - and doesn't feel them worthy of response?

He may well say something after the game - but then it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't. He doesn't seem to be a big fan of whining.

So Maguire couldnt have defended himself and his team without resorting to childish name calling?

What's it got to do with you, or Leeds, if Wigan don't want to talk to the press before the match?

And look - don't wee down people's backs and tell them it's raining. We're really not that stupid. You've been sitting around at home waiting for someone at Wigan to make the sort of faux-pas that McLennan and Peacock have made. All this business about Wigan players being denied the right to speak, or Maguire not trusting them enough ( ) is juvenile crap-stirring.

So why ban his players from talking to the press at all unless he needs to wrap them in cotton wool to prevent them saying something they shouldnt.

Wigan players should be more than capable of talking to the press without saying something they shouldnt. Banning them from doing so is a pretty clear statement he doesnt believe they can.

How do you know?

Or yet again is this how things 'seem' to be?



The fact that you're okay with what your lot said speaks volumes about you. As does the fact that you went looking to find out what was said at the Wigan press conference.

He's obviously left Leeds to do that and simply risen above it.

still doesnt answer why he has banned his team talking in public.

I cant see what leeds have said which is anything other than a little bit of pantomime, its not like they have said a player deserves an injury or anything. It seems a bit of an over-reaction to stop players talking to the press.

at the very very least it shows that McClennan and Peacocks pantomime has affected them.

It shows Madge like to do his talking on the pitch and he doesn't respond to those under pressure.