Field’s kick was rubbish execution and wasn’t needed. French shouldn’t be in a position to take drop goals anyway. Ultimately, this team doesn’t execute big moments in semi finals the vast majority of times they present themselves. I blame coaching for that, then the players for not being able to adapt or use their brains.

I can live with the Shorrocks red because they’re pretty consistent on it now. You’re in more danger of cards playing in tv games, which feels wrong but that’s a different conversation.

I can’t excuse some of the other refereeing decisions, especially in that last 10-15 mins. It’s a tough gig and some calls will be wrong but things like KPP contacting Ryan in the air and the set not being restarted for the Minchella charge down are such simple calls. You know a straightforward call when you see one and don’t even think about what might be given. With KPP I just thought ‘idiot’ and with the charge down I thought we then had a great chance to win it. Some sort of captains challenge needs to come in (although if it would cover that charge down, I’m not sure).

That’s why I thought Nsemba may play.

It’s a tough one who to drop because the back 3 are playing well but Miski got a couple of things wrong in defence so for me he drops out of the 17 next week with Cust coming to 6 and French on the wing.

We lack experienced leaders in situations like these for me. If you look at how Catalans players have come on with Tomkins and Micky Mac in the team and how they follow their every word, we don’t have that in spine positions. We’ve got a young 7, 9 and 13, a guy who isn’t a natural stand off at 6 and Field at 1, who again isn’t hugely experienced in these games and doesn’t seem a massive talker. I think we win that game today with an experienced leader like Sam Tomkins in there.

to be fair Fields kick was the right thing but bad execution and Frenchs was charged down and the offside guy picked it up but was ignored, smiths kick on the 3rd in extra time is unforgivable

Thats three times Peters as outsmarted Peet this year, played three won three Peters 3 Peet 0 Apologies should be Peters 2 Peet 1

agreed, no contact to the head though....was whiplash

its not hard, cover french and field and we have nothing, we rely on their individual brilliance, without them we would be battling wakefield

I have accepted it - I haven't bought a season ticket in a number of years. It's no longer the game I grew up watching and loving.

wigan have always been a hard team to beat on most occasions but today we replecated what you have done for years won a big game without bringing the house down field and french are key to your results play decent you win bottle them up and its game on

its easy after them as there are 11 plodders

Did I imagine the GP win a few weeks back?

Agreed, so then I start looking higher up at Radlinski and his inability to build a squad. This last 5 years has been like the 5 in the run up to Maguire, we badly need an outsider to shake up this ‘culture’ where we lose semi-finals too regularly for a top club.

How bad was the first try we conceded btw?

The more I think about the game the more I think Matty Peet got his post match comments badly wrong. It was an awful big game performance and Peet is either arrogant or naive not to acknowledge that.

been the same since Peet took over, our defence has been poor, its just our attack has masked it, now its slowed down the cracks are appearing