what gear were wigan in, they must have broken down , both teams tried their hardest , the best team won on the day ,

Old faithfull you'll never win at Wollongong !

Sure did. As soon as Faraimo went off they knew there would be a weakness down that side and they exploited it., And man, Connor (who isn't particular speedy anyway) and Shaul could get nowhere near Marshall.

Who'd have thought the winger has turned out to be the most important player on the pitch maybe if Radford had a plan B apart from load a team up with 17 18st players you might be able cover losing a winger

In those hot and humid conditions it would seem a sensible options to have a bench of 4 forwards as they would need more rotation.
Rovers had a bench on Thursday night of Lunt, Wayne, Kavanagh and Masoe. You lost Heffernan in the backs and didn't score a try after that, but conceded 3 to the opposite centre. Where was Sheens' plan B?

We had a back on the bench against Wakefield and scored 1 try what's your point plus Blair can drop in at centre on the plus side for you the NRL teams won't be sniffing round your players after today

My point is that you've tried to have a pop at Radford, but Rovers came unstuck against Leeds exactly the same way Hull did today. I imagine you didn't complain about Sheens for lacking a plan B.
Blair clearly can drop in at centre with about the same quality Washbrook can. He let Keinhorst waltz past him 3 times.
While I don't want any of our players to go to NRL (and it's obvious you're only just trying to have another dig), clubs don't decide to sign/not sign players on the basis of 1 game.

radford hasn't written it for him yet

I thought that was your default mode anyway?

Very funny

So you are blaming the weather and injuries for your defeat .. wow.

At least you made history today. The first team to lose a Super League game outside of Europe. I suppose that must be considered a positive benefit of Brexit.

All we need now is for DGM or Jakes best mate the peg (or whatever he calls himself these days) to come on and tell us it was inevitable that Wigan would win. Why ? It was obviously Wigan's Cup final and Hull are concentrating on the Challenge Cup and had one eye on that, so never took the game seriously.

If you read the first post I made (previous page) you would see where I quoted a comment that the best team won, and I agreed with it. Because, well, the best team did win.

The post of mine which you've just quoted, and somehow managed to turn it into me blaming weather and injuries for the loss, was in reply to Frankie's post about not having a plan B, nothing to do with the outcome of the game.

We made too many handling errors and couldn't capitalise on good field position when we had it. However, injuries did play a part in our struggles, and anybody who honestly believes that injuries don't have some impact on the match is completely clueless.

Every team gets injuries losing a winger shouldn't have the impact of say losing a half or hooker for instance your making out the game was over as soon as you lost your winger

It was over long before Fairamo went off

That can depend on circumstances. In today's case there was no quality replacement for the left hand side. Connor can just about handle himself on the wing, but then the real problem comes from having to play an aging forward in the centre's, the hardest position on the pitch to defend in (Maurice Blair will likely vouch for that). It's no coincidence as soon as we had to make those changes they cut us open on the left edge. Our defence hadn't manage to get to grips with things yet. They managed to sort themselves out later in the game, but we've still got a few poor decisions from Wigan's left side to thank for not getting completely hammered. The game wasn't over when Faraimo went off, it just got a lot tougher. Playing against Wigan is already tough enough when fully fit.
And for the record, our hooker was also injured pretty early in the game.

That'll do me now anyway. This is a thread for Rovers/Leeds not Hull/Wigan.