From a Hull fan with children in Australia, massive well done to Wigan for winning the World Club Challenge and Warrington on their victory the night previously. My son lives in Sydney and the Aussie fans constantly belittle the English game so this is one in the eye for them, even sweeter that it was at the hands of an English coach. Well done again, made us all proud last night lads.

Buzzing like the front row of a Happy Monday's concert. Count me in!

Sounds good!!

I argued strongly for Willie Isa over Joel Tomkins and I'm pleased to say that I was wrong because I thought Joel had his best game since his return. The idea of rotating Lockers and Joel may prolong both careers and also get the best out of them both. I thought Waney got the selection and tactics spot on.

And what a find Morgan Escare may prove to be. Although it is too early to say that he will replace Sam Tomkins at full back in the longer term.

Sounds good to me!

A resounding win with great teamwork, tactics and great coaching from Waney and his staff.

Did anybody else notice the winger take Gildarts head off as he passed the ball to Burgess for his second?

I pointed it out on the VT in response to people saying we got the better of the calls. It was a shocker and a dead set red card offence.

There's a gif of it on fb. Really nasty. Ollie popped up to say, it was worth it!

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I did. 100% he meant to put that hit in late. Gildart got rid well before the hit took place. Cronulla lad had plenty of time to stop his hit but went straight in with shoulder. At least it didnt stop Gildart from killing it.

Your left side attack is going to be crazy good this year by looks.

Didn't notice that one until I watched the link above. It's hard to tell without a slowmo where the point of contact was but if it was around the head that's a bad one.

And yet we have Phil Clarke on the sky site earlier saying we got all the close calls. The games biggest call went totally unnoticed! They should have been playing with 12 men for 55 minutes.

I saw it straight away it was deliberate and I would think intended to deliver maximum damage.
The only downside to the game was that no Wigan player attempted to put their winger over the west stand which where he should have gone.

The more I see it the more I think the guy should be facing a long ban. It is an absolute shocker and a real cowards trick.

It's so frustrating that more wasn't made of it by the Sky team (I say more when actually anything would have done) because it makes an absolute mug of anybody who claims we got the rub of the green.