REALLY??

we have half a team against a full strength Wire I was expecting at 20 pont deficit

("I'm Wigan through and through but Tony Smith is a better coach than Shaun Wane. I think we would be absolute world-beaters with him at the helm"icon_wink.gif

Put Wigan and Warrington's team down on paper and any idiot would recognise that Warrington have more stars, bigger forwards and more strike players etc... Wigan sit comfortably 4 points clear of Warrington at the top of the table and have racked up 13 wins on the bounce plagued with injuries, but yet Tony Smith is a world beater??? Your supposed to be a Warrior and you come out with a tongue and cheek remark like that with no substance or evidence to back it up!! What more do you want from Waney???? Should he pull a shirt on too?? Would you be satisfied then??? We lost 4 world class operators at the end of last season and yet we still sit top of the league! Jesus Mary and Joseph id love to see inside your head grimmy, you can go and support Warrington for me!

Boston, aren't you the one who didn't rate Myler?

Utterly amazing post to start this thread.

I'm sure it's already been said by everyone else on here, but the OP either knows nothing at all about Rugby League or has an agenda, or maybe a bit of both (perish the thought).

The OP is obviously ridiculous, an amazing effort from the young lads with so much experience on the sidelines. It is frustrating that we have lost a game that could've gone either way though (again). I mentioned during the game, and have noticed others saying it today, the most disappointing aspect for me is that we had George Williams sat on the bench for the full 80, surely that spot should've gone to either Lloyd, Greenwood or dare I say, Andy Powell?

That's correct! I think you forgot to add the point you was trying to make ??????? Please feel free add this on your reply

my point:

you know nowt

I'll break my original post down then.

[iUsual fayre in a big game where we come up short. [/i
Lots of big games in the last 18 months we have the ball, look solid with it and then failed to capitalise when really we should've been clear with territory and possession taken into account. This year we've drawn against Wire (h), lost against Hudds (a), lost against Leeds (a) and now lost against Wire (a). These are the three teams we'll directly come up against and it paints a sorry picture. Yes it's great the youngsters are getting experience and we can all take some positives if we look hard enough but bottom line is we don't win the crunch big games consistently enough. Warrington had a fair few seasoned pros missing too which seems to have gone amiss.

[iMatty Smith outstanding tonight but not good enough as a team to take the two points.[/i
Self-explanatory really, he was a proper general on the field and has really stepped up after criticism about his ability to replace Leuluai. As for not being good enough, well we weren't! Sam kicking the ball to Charnley was the turning point and we lost territory after that. Not using Williams and then Spencer (who clearly had a shocker) meant we played about 65 minutes with 15 men, which is why Higham looked a world beater towards the end.

Some of the false praise does need a dose of reality. We're in a results business and yes we were missing major players in some key positions but it's a bit annoying when we are starting to look like a set of flat-track bullies.