We rely on Sam so much it's frightening.

At the moments we've got a set of flat track bullies who do it when the pressure is off. Too many times we've lost the bigger games under Wane and that's because we're replacing quality with substandard players for a club of our stature.

Sam wasn't the person we missed most tonight, A lack of leadership from the likes of O'Loughlin and having H in the pack is what we missed.

Yep.

Sam in the team and we win.

Agreed; Lockers especially.

With Sam, Lockers, HH & Mic Mac doing 2 stints we'd have won convincingly, and throwing in Roby for them too.
As they weren't there, we lost.
Now who would have predicted that then?

Fancy telling me the lottery numbers while you're at it too, please?

XBrettKennyX needs to log off and come back on tomorrow. What a ridiculous thread

Can Wigan pay Sam as much as they want and it not count towards the cap? Genuine question I'm sure I've heard this. Any true fan of any team would mourn the loss of a player like him. Would be a dark day for RL.

I don't think the loss was due to Sam not playing. Hampshire is no Tomkins we know, but he had a blinder at FB. We missed Lockers leadership and strength in the middle. We also looked as if we didn't want it as much as them and that's down to the SL structure! No excuses tonight, they beat a weakened team that if they'd executed better could have won it.

Frankly embarrassing thread. Who do you expect him to buy? Inglis or Slater? Or both? Go and have a cold shower man!

[u2012[/u

Wigan swept away (mostly) all opponents in the league campaign, concentrated on finishing top of the pile and then suffered in both the Challenge Cup Semi Final and the Play-off Semi Final.

A number of posters on here blamed the coaching staff for not rotating the squad better so that they would be ready to perform 'come the business end of the season'.

Fast forward twelve months......

[u2013[/u

Wigan swept away (mostly) all opponents in the league campaign up until the end of June thus securing a high playoff position at least. Rotated the majority of the squad throughout the season, reached the Challenge Cup Semi Final and have a "very good chance of winning it" whilst leaving out a couple of our star players in preparation for the must-win 'knock out' matches and the 'business end of the season'.

Now we're seeing threads how we've dropped off in the league and "had Sam been in the team we'd have won" (and remained top).

Let's just remember that during the off season THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE ACCUSING THE CLUB OF FAILING TO DO IN 2012.

You guys wanted this!!!!!!!