Spent on Ellis and Holdsworth though. Oh, I forgot about Seymour's salary too. Can't see Miller on the same.

I agree. Sounded from the AP interview this week that we have a prop coming in.

I agree, finish in 8th position and lose the first playoff game then I'm sure that Gentle may have to answer some very challenging questions asked of him by his boss.

Lynch this season should be easily replaceable.

True, but I'd be surprised to see him leave the club before next season. Not completely out of the question, of course.

Unless we get hammered in every game I would as well.

agree with most of the sensible posts on this particular thread. when you suffer a bad loss, youve got to learn the lessons from it and move forward.Rounding on the players or the coach is just crass. does anyone honestly think our guys didnt give 100% effort today! just think it was one of those days when nothing sticks or seems to go right. too many errors early in the game from at least half a dozen players led to every one of them trying too hard, pushing passes and offloads that were never on in monsoon conditions. errors snowballed and confidence and cohesion evaporated throughout the team. give Wigan some credit as well, they played to the conditions and their big game experience showed. our guys have got a bit of that experience now and if we replayed the game again next week, daresay we would play ten times better.

The amount of times we should have gone for 2 points but ended up playing and dropping the ball was criminal. Everyone around us was shouting for the 2, it was crystal clear we needed points on the board.

Keep up the optimism lad.

Just wasn't our day today.

I think the weather ruined the day completely, not as an excuse for why we lost, but the whole game was rubbish from start to finish. Add to that everyone being wet through, hurrying to get into the stadium rather than enjoying the atmosphere around Wembley, and then sitting in the stand wet through which again dampened the atmosphere inside.

Wigan played the conditions better, but it truly was a crap game. Uncharacteristic errors across the park, some of our younger lads looked very nervous at times.

Defence was good, but attack was very poor.

It was a bad day at the office, nothing came off, bad decisions, poor handling, and a complete lack in set completions all lead to a shambles in attack. Wigan were not great today but played a well dicaplined game and took the spoils.

some sensible posts and sum of the usual kneejerkers shouting sack the coach, am really dissappointed today, we just didnt fire , thought both crookes looked underdone and we missed lineham and arundel although i dowt there would have changed the result, where do we go from here, dust ourselfs down and get on with it, gentle has brought in a number of good youngsters and hopefully we will have a few more signings up our sleeves,

When they were leading 6-0 an 8-0.. We passed up 3 chances to go for goal..

We always go for goal in them scenarios.. Why change it now when it would of given the lads much needed rest.

Sky Sports saying our handling was 'laughable' at times. Sums it up for me!

I can assure them I wasn't laughing!

I agree with those who said we should have kicked the available penalties when they were on offer. We could have got ourselves 8 points through those kicks, that would have alleviated the pressure to try and score of every set later in the game. Who's decision was it to spurn those opportunities?