for my money our pack matched Wigan our problem was we have nothing at halfback and 6 tries 3 on each wing tell the story of the game.
Yet again the support play was nonexistent I was happy that we did not throw the towel in and gave them a game in the 2nd half
don’t think Cooke is the answer and believe we have got a bum deal out of Fartown ref Kirmond
why sign a player who clearly is not fit As for Ben Jeffries can somebody please explain to me why the hell we resigned him i have seen nothing new this season from this fella

Blaymire 7
Morton 3
Millard 5
Murphy 5
Blanch 3
Jeffries 5
Cooke 5
Korkidas 7
Obst 6
Moore 8
Ferguson 5
Kirmond 4
Latu 5

Tronc 7
Morrison 7,
King 6,
Hendo,6

I know it's always easy with the benefit of hindsight but surely today we knew that Wigan were gonna come out of the blocks all guns blazing? Every time I've seen them they've looked lightning quick and played at a very high tempo from the off.

Our gameplan was to surely try and go there and get in their faces and slow them up and keep the game tight as long as we possibly could, and possibly see the benefit of the less intense hit out on Friday night going into the final quarter?


With that in mind I'm surprised we started with Korki (an impact prop) instead of Tronc (a real grafter) and Kirmond and Ferguson (who's missed a few) instead of two of our biggest grafters in Morrison and Henderson in the 2nd row?

Sorry but I haven't seen any grafting from him for the last two games.It's like watching Bibb again

Looks more like Tronc is already on the plane home!

Lets hope a few hundred others do the same.

Thank you!

I must have been listening to a different game, because it came across that the forwards could not contain the Wigan forward pack, hence the outside backs at sixes & sevens in defence.

A lot of class on this board! As a group, I think you're the first set of fans to credit the Wigan performance rather than tell us we're only winning because we were playing in better weather than the opposition or the colour of our socks was blinding their halfbacks! (alright, maybe not the socks thing! )

Hope things pick up for you. It was never going to be easy, having lost your main playmaker and attacking threat, to maintain form. It's perhaps going to take a little time to get some consistency.

Good luck for the rest of the season.

The sliding defence just isn't working for us... Leaving our wingers on their own with a 2 man overlap. Jeffries kicking was poor and we lacked creativity.

shows how different fans see a game i thought tronc had gone home and a shy newbie was in the 8 shirt, its a game of 2 halves and blanch recovered in the 2nd . to give a player 3 is very disrespectful and shows that (I may be wrong i know) you have never played the game at anything other than junior level. It also takes away the fact that wigan were very good . i was annoyed with the attitude in the first half but tbf Richards as been scoring tries like that for years the first one was very preventable but that's the way it goes at times.

After getting home from Wigan and looking back on the game in a better frame of mind I think the main problem yesterday was the fact that the forwards did not gain much ground, especially in the first half,and that means that your half-backs do not get the time to create or organise.Also Ben is not a scrum half and has never had agreat kicking game,his asset is his speed to go through gaps made by othersand I would suggest that our main concern is that some how and from somewhere we must get a scrum half and get Ben back to stand off and Cooke to loose forward.

Ratchford from Salford.

Come on Ted open your wallet, I'm sure he would rather be playing with us over Salford (no disrespect to them).
Young, English, Creative, a good runner too. IMO he is what we need, that way we have a quota and a non fed place open to bolster the forwards with in the off season.