Miller took a big hit when he clashed with Hadley (who went off)
There was no one to replace Miller so he stuck it out. Arm hanging down for much of second half so although not his best it is understandable.

Wigan also targeted him and Wood in particular throughout running the bigger men straight at him some of the Wigan forwards actively ran out of there way to find both of these guys in particular.

Personally I think given they grant really been starting they did ok. Miller looked more comfortable playing the off the cuff player off Finn.

Wood for me did a lot of the tough stuff but for me he just isn't a "starting hooker". That is the missing player at the moment for me which has probably been born out of the Moore situation.

Valid point PT...had forgotten about that, I'll cut him a bit of slack for today then, but we all know that our half-backs are not the most creative in the League and need to start creating some tries. This could be the difference between top 8 and Middle 8's come the end of the season.

I think the team was no better than Friday, they were just up against weaker opposition hence the damage wasn't as severe.
It was the same poor decision making and blunted attack with a bit of iffy reffin thrown in.
Don't think the reffing really made much of a difference, our form of only a few games ago would have made that irrelevant.
Can't take anything away from Wigan they're running on fumes at the moment, it was a gritty hard yards performance from them, they're not looking like champs though.
We have to tie in these key positions 6 7 9, Grix is doing his job well but having to fill in the f-ups too much.
I gotta say, we looked jaded, but that's a 3 day turnaround for you.
Warrington next, they've got fire in their bellys, and they're line speed junkies, that's where it'll be won or lost.
I don't really wanna be talking about defense, but with key attacking positions misfiring, defense has to win the game...

Stayed up to watch the game this morning ... ended at almost 2 am and now I'm on the train at 545 heading to Sydney....


But I'm glad I did... it was s great game ... guts, spirit, skill, luck and the inevitable bits and bobs from the officials... every aspect of the game was so even... and it just took a smidgin of luck for Wigan to take the spoils. Great defensive performance ... but so was Wigans!

In all honesty a draw would have been a fair result as both sides deserved massive credit for that level of performance.

If I were to offer one observation it would be in the role of hooker ... Wood needs to be more aggressive we are still attacking a yard of so too deep ... from acting half back that is...and he never supports the player with the ball either actively looking for the offload or stopping our tackles player being pushed back!

He still plays like a scrum half rather than s hooker!.... but that's a minor gripe about a very entertaining game!

sorry ,did,nt realise caps was on,

Going to be tough to get anything from Warrington game on Saturday. Ashurst and Algood will be missing plus I suspect Hadley as well

He's not been the same since he lost his paper round job, I've told him it's only a job but he's so bitter now a days, anyway he'll not bother you no more tonight his uncle Alf's come home from't pub in a bad mood and taken his phone off him.

The players and coaching staff were confident of top 6 and there are were a lot of talk following Widnes win that we could make top 6.

The mention of Grix in attack baffles me. He links up well and looks the most creative in the side at the moment with Finn.

Come Saturday Warrington could be behind us by 1 after being 7 adrift before Easter

Top six is still achievable, we're not too far behind and if we can start to pick up wins again and other results go in our favour we could find ourselves in the top 6, were on track to finish on around 22-24 points after 23rds so I'm happy with where we are. I like Grix, but he does favour the right hand side and leaves the left a bit neglected

That's kinda what happens when you lose 3 games in 8 days

I think they call it......Mathematics ?


I'd prefer it if they'd space the same losses out across the season more evenly but, we'd just get some dingbat whinging about how inconsistent we are.
At least this way, assuming we go on and win a few on the bounce, we get a rest from the doom mongers for a week or two.

Now that made me chuckle.

Just watched it back.
We tackled Wigan out for 4 repeat sets at one stage. We were well capable of stopping them.
Unfortunately we made errors with ball in hand. On the whole it was us rather than the ref but the Huby knock on was a key one.
The ball was knocked down by Wigan anyway, it went backwards even if he did drop it and the whole Wigan line was a step in front of the line so should have been a penalty which would have brought it level and changed the focus of the play. The cross field camera angle clearly shows it.
It's a pity but it is what it is.