I cant believe what I have just heard our coach say on BBC radio Manchester post game.

On Gabe Hamlin's performance Wane said " I look at it different than the fans, Gabe has a big leg drive after contact, but I don't want that I want him to drop and play the ball quickly so we get momentum. That's not how I want him to play"

No wonder our pack get bullied every week. Then we all wonder why FPN didn't break a tackle I n2 year.

I am a big Wane fane but for pity's sake.

Bewildering.

Hamlin, Isa and Sutton won contact all day and allowed players like Williams more time and space.

He has to accept defeat in this “find the floor quickly” tactic. We barely make any meters and end up kicking from our own 30.

It comes as no surprise. Many of us have defended our props when criticised by saying they are playing under instruction.

Bullied every week? The only games I'd say they really came off second best so far have been against Warrington and St Helens. Even against St Helens it was pretty back and forth stuff

Hamlin won at least 4 penalty’s after his excellent drives today because of his desire to play the ball so quickly after that so I’m not sure what wane is getting at here, we can still gain momentum if our props drive the ball in hard. What an utterly unbelievable statement, no wonder our props look crap most of the time if that’s what he is telling them to do. Best prop performance at Wigan I have seen for a long time from young gabe.

No please no. I believe April Fools was yesterday and as a bloke who’s backed Wane more often then not, that type of comment will make it difficult. I find it pretty disrespectful towards the fans the tbh. I’ve been watching the game for 30 years and people will have enjoyed his performance today who’ve watched the game from before Wane was born and that is utter sh*te what he’s come out with.

I’m pretty bewildered by that.

Physically hurt reading that opening post.

Not just me then. I’m not kidding, my chest has actually tightened in pure rage at that.

He was attacking defenders, winning penalties and must’ve been responsible for well in excess of 250m when you consider the ground from the pens and his own carries.

It’s pathetic!

SW on Gabe Hamlin who debuted :

He was very Good, I thought he carried the ball really strong and was really composed. It didn't look like his first game"

I'm not sure why people get so worked up when quotes are taken in isolation without the full context.

Numerous times this year people have put snippets of quotes from wane on here and he's either a/ not said them at all or b/ they don't look as strange when looked at within the full interview.

The full interview. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0632wky

The full interview. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0632wky

Keep forgetting we all know more than him.

So it's drive it in, accept the tackle and drop to the floor for quick play the ball? If I still played the game and I was told that I'd be quite devastated. The game really is becoming a chess match that's played more off the pitch than on it with preset tactics and set plays. This isn't a Wane whinge, this is a whinge about the game in general as I'm sure most clubs will do similar. It's no wonder we don't want any big forwards, the yards are made before the collision as the players are told to basically surrender and look for quick play the balls or a penalty, light quicker forwards make more yards before the collision.

You know what?
I'd take more notice of people if they hadn't spent the last 2 years twisting every tiny thing into a massive Wane slagging off tool.

Certain posters who said Hamlin would get a game every week because he was a wane buy then slagged wane off for not playing him.
Now on other threads making a scenario where wane can't win with regards to team selection next week.

He may very well have said what he said about Hamlins leg drive but to be honest I'm.sick to death of reading so much negativity regarding wane when most of the time he hasn't done or said anything wrong that I tend to switch off it's become that boring.

Lockers/Powell/Burgess and probably clubb come back in for me if everyone fit

If any doubts about lockers it wouldn't bother me if he missed out and have him firing for Leeds away.

Woods/Ganson/Marshall to miss out and possibly navarette dependant on lockers and also escare.

I get the Burgess argument but for me he was fantastic at saints on good Friday same as his other games so far (and Marshall has to be fair).
I just feel under pressure and in big games budgie is the more complete all round player (some of the bombs he took GF were superb).