Just on route back and I'm just glad to get the win because that wasn't pretty. You can't win a game of rugby league unless you're prepared to make the hard yards down the middle and in the first half we weren't! Thankfully the likes of Bateman and Tautai (fair play to him tonight) sorted that second half and earned us the right to play a little (even if we still kept having brain fades).

It was far from vintage but it's another win and come the end of the season we may well look back on these two scrappy wins as big moments for us.

Looking like another dull as dishwater start to the season, it seems it takes 6 or 7 weeks to get going.
Maybe we should use the pre-season matches for the first team to warm up rather than the reserves.

All we can hope is that we continue to win whilst not at our best. We always start slow but we don't always win whilst doing it so that's something to build on.

If we can get 6 or 7 wins in the board in the first 8 or 9 games we'll be a real shout of topping the pile.

I agree with the OP by Jonh about not attacking their left side defence.
Almost the first time we did with a clear break we scored. The game was 43 mins gone.
As for Powell, why critisise him? He only gets to play 20 mins each half off the bench. Then Waney starts him and he struggles with what is asked of him.
Trouble is Wane won't rotate his halves.
Our problems tonight were caused by Shaun Wane IMO.
Still, he's the coach of the winning team.

No arguments here, if we've won 7/9 we'll walk the LLS, it's just the lack of entertainment for the first couple of months that's hard to take.

Fully agree. I sat Frozen to the core for the first half of that game wondering if I'm right in the head for turning up! The second half was a little better but until Sam Tomkins and Williams are back I doubt we'll be a thrill a minute.

Yep, fair's fair, Tautai had a good game. Bateman was his usual busy self and Gelling made some telling contributions but his standard brain farts. Him and Lockers were the only players to show a bit of class tonight, the rest... meh.

you won the game when not at your best....

Useless and horrible to watch.
The two centres are the worst pairing I have ever seen in Wigan shirts.
Powell and Tierney cannot pass a ball if their lives depended it upon it.
It's like being back in the 80's. Lots of effort but zero skill.
God help us if Bateman left.
Anyone paying paying to watch the friendly next weekend want their heads seeing to.
I'm trying to think of anything positive but can't.
Our signings in the last four or five years have been abysmal. The quality of our attack is second tier at best.
We have zero and I mean zero attacking options with amateurish attempts of skill.
D middles edges are total utter shoite. Less weights and wrestling and learn some basics.
Pathetic.

Ryan Hampshire can't even get in the Cas team

If Leeds had done that as they have on numerous occasions Sky would have been "champion team" this and "never know when they're beaten" that. Instead, their anti Wigan agenda leads to them picking a loser as MOM, something that I can't recall happening in any of Leeds' numerous smash and grabs.
Hemmings' intro started with "injury ravaged Giants" blah blah and you just knew that Carney would also toe the line. I'm loving it!

I'm very surprised you put class and Gelling in the same sentence!

Gelling has hidden attributes.


Mostly in his britches.


You have got to like him though.

What I particularly liked was when we got penalised for brushing an arm on a Hudds player jumping for a high ball and the Sky team were all over it. A fair decision of course, except about 30 seconds earlier Tierney got bulldozed off the ball as he tried to take a high bomb and the Sky team were banging on about how it was a fair challenge.

Thanks, just what I wanted to hear.

No doubt we'll need to be a lot better to give the Broncos a decent game, though.